Hyper-Capitalistic

   We live in a country that in some cases, depending on the amount of money that you have or the HMO you subscribe to is the difference between life and death. Extreme example: homeless man develops brain cancer, after collapsing on the sidewalk is found and brought to a nearby hospital. After doing a few hours of testing, the hospital knows the man has cancer because of the fact that it took him until he collapsed to actually get testing done, and sends him on his way without giving a diagnosis. Basically sending him on his way to go back to his cardboard plot and eventually die. A CEO of a major corporation knows years out that he is strongly at risk for a certain type of cancer, is given a specific lifestyle recommendation by one of the most respected Oncologists in the country and has a scheduled CT scan every 6 months to check his progression. Cancer solved. So is this extreme and hypothetical albeit necessary explanation of how money directly effects your health in this country a good segue into the point that I am trying to introduce? You decide.
   So we live in this 'hyper-capitalist' country. Where money is sometimes the only difference between life and death. We are in wars (our executive branch refers to them as 'conflicts') all around the globe. Spending billions upon billions of dollars each week and not seeing any positive cash-flow. In the grand scheme of things, and I use the term 'grand' lightly is there an endgame? Does it sound so cold to ask: "show me the money?" Can there be a heartless question asked about currency? Especially when the lives of our troops are lost everyday abroad. The point I'm trying to make here in too many words is: "in such a country where everything is run by money, profits and losses, where the lives of our soldiers are insignificant compared with a big-wig's vacation bonus, where's the silver lining? The gain? From an ideological standpoint, wheres the change? When you execute any idea and you have no endgame set in place, and your plan is confused with too many voices with different agendas, what is going to be the end outcome? Vietnam. It's almost as if when you gain incumbency, everything you learned about American history is wiped clean from you mind. Every mistake that we have made, instead of learning from, is repeated over and over. I am going to end with this, if we are primarily a capitalistic society, why aren't we making any money on our exploits? I don't want to seem cold, I'm just trying to gain some perspective and I hope that my angry rants that no one probably reads incites some perspective.