..WE HAVE RESOURCES.. WE JUST KEEP SQUANDERING THEM....THE 'SYSTEM' ISN'T WORKING... (check back.. more to be added)

• Money and the 2016 US Presidential Elections: The $10 Billion Contest ... 85% of the population believe major changes or a "complete rebuild" of the U.S. election system is needed.

• "Public education is NOT being supported. The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) recently stated: "Most states provide less support per student for elementary and secondary schools—in some cases, much less—than before the Great Recession...Worse, some states are still cutting eight years after the recession took hold."

• $300 million for one painting!! It's so mind-boggling absurd. There's just something completely wrong with a society where individuals can amass such outrageous fortunes, while an increasing number within the general population are finding it harder and harder to cope with everyday life.

• Inequality Against Democracy: 10 Facts About the 1 Percent... we're living within a very skewed system.
• Why Our Government Isn't Listening: How Greed Is at the Root of US Suffering. Long have the powerful few profited from the poor majority's struggle, and the United States in 2016 is no different. Through complex and convoluted public policy, the politicians in Congress and the executives of large corporations are capitalizing, as humans have for millennia, on an inequitable system to make off with millions. Oppression is a highly profitable business.

• Feeding the Military-Industrial Complex - Spending on major military acquisition programs is projected to soar 23%, after adjusting for inflation, 2015 to 2022. Worse yet, Congress and the administration are spending much of that money on weapons that don't even work as advertised.

• This is a system that is NOT working...except for those spending all those millions/ billions to buy government. And their rate of return.. well, what can you say. Lobbyists extract $3.5 trillion in benefits from government coffers every year at an expense of $3.5 billion in lobbying fees.

• Pentagon F-35 fighter jet report reveals massive problems still facing 'most expensive weapon in history'...so far cost over $3.5bn, and is eight years late.

• A post-apocalyptic space station straight out of a science fiction movie... Ordos - A Failed Utopia.

• When you 'buy-government'... this is exactly what you expect for your money.. and the rate of return is beyond-belief obscene and unconscionable.

• With extreme inequality comes disastrous misallocation and waste of resources. World over it is devastating all societies.

• ProPublica has been scrutinizing tens of billions spent on reconstruction in Afghanistan by the military, State Department and US Agency for International Development. Project after project has foundered because the US ignored history, warnings, local culture and common sense. Last month, ProPublica analyzed and, for the first time, added up the cost of these failures and found  least $17 billion in questionable spending since 2009.

• Operation Iraqi Freedom... what an absolute waste of lives & resources.... Counter: Cost of War in Iraq...
•  ..and all for what!!!... Civilians in Iraq Face Violence From All Sides, UN Says

• Condos targeting ultra-wealthy were at risk of being overbuilt... so companies moved focus to the next tier of wealthy buyers: domestic millionaires spending between $1M - $15M... those transactions are still excluded from the federal government's new rules.

• There’s less trees than at any point in human civilization... since the spread of human influence, we’ve reduced the number almost by half, which is an astronomical thing.

• Two major nuclear construction projects—one for melting down old bombs and another for remediation of toxic waste—have turned into epic boondoggles.

• Just Who Exactly Benefits Most from the Global Giving of Billionaires

  The world has extreme resources and wealth.. but we've let happen a system that is at some point going to take down everything.