Leefeller:  Hang on there a minute, guy!  “The grand scheme of things” is pretty much out of our hands, it’s true.  But “our” government?  If it’s ours, we own it.  And bunches of “we’s” add up to millions.  So, millions of “us” own “our” government—we, the people. Nobody else.  Just us. Democratic self-government scarcely qualifies as “the grand scheme of things”. We live close to it every day. We do, or we don’t admit that it’s our neighbors and us.  We own it.

What happens in that government depends on what we do and/or what we don’t do.  So far, we don’t do.
And because we haven’t been doing for a long time, problems have accumulated and the country is in serious decline.  That means we are in serious decline. That’s why Occupy Wall Street is trying to do what it can.

If our government is paying attention to banks and stocks, and not paying attention to “we the people”,
we the people will (eventually) do something about it. The earlier, the easier.  Something nonviolent is vastly preferable to something violent.

Everybody knows this.  An irresponsible government wants to appear remote and unreachable to keep a distance from “we the people” and avoid change.  Our government has become more or less irresponsible.
We the people, however, have been the primary responsible party since the very beginning:  “We the people, in order to establish a more perfect union, establish justice, assure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity ...”

Nothing about that statement has changed.  We have changed.  We don’t want the responsibility claimed by the Founding Fathers anymore. Too much trouble!
Let Wall Street and the Supreme Court do it!  How you and I feel about it “means absolutely nothing”?

Don’t you believe it!

How you or I feel about war means absolutely nothing in the grand scheme of things, probably in the same light money runs our government.

Check out by Googling; ‘General Smedley Butler: ‘War Is A Racket’ A good read and written just after WWI, I may have to reread it again to add to and compound my cynicism about our government!

The people who start wars never go near them except for the money of it!

When I was in the service, they taught us how to kill, but not each other?

Racial tensions where building up about the time I was discharged, but it was more like groups against groups, the closest thing to hazing was placing a thief in a locker and attempting to shame him? Though I was not in the Army, they may have had more problems?

What happened to Pvt. Danny Chen is unacceptable and should never have happened, evidently their are reports of abuses of women happening in the military also, which should not be happening.

Chesty Puller wanted to install beer machines in the Marine barracks and allow prostitutes to keep the troops happy,.... times have changed.

Right again, as usual, Gerard. Racism and ignorance are as essential to war as the planes, the bombs and the bullets.

Pitiful.  Evil.  And totally understandable, inasmuch as war brutalizes every person who participate in it in any way, directly or indirectly.  War is the primary crime against humanity; every other related offense is secondary. 
Therefore wars much stop and nonviolent solutions to problems must be instituted—a.s.a.p.
  This is exactly the reason why the U.S. Government should use the WikiLeaks releases as a chance to take the glory out of war by showing to the public the “dirty laundry” of war, and what passes for international diplomacy that all too often sets the stage for it.