Its Their Lives or Ours.

                                                                                                                  Yuri Almaraz
                                                                                                                            Eng 1A.
                                                                                                                             T Dewit
                                                         Its Their lives or Ours.

    Does the government take action only when innocent people are dying or when they have 

enough legitimacy? Obama obviously loves to get involved with enemies and their catastrophes, but what about the shit that he has committed in his own country? Right now Obama is about to strike on Syria for its destruction on chemical weapons that killed over 10,000 people over the past 3 years. Many U.S citizens and Obama himself are saying he should focus on the problem with the economy and the high unemployment in the U.S. Though Obama ignores the lower class. Is it because he’s become rich and famous as a president, that he’s forgotten all the poor people in the country? Especially in Chicago; his hometown, that has the highest crime rates in the country? Why couldn't he bring serious attention to this before all the news about Syria? I agree, the things that are happening in Syria is not at all okay, but its just not in Syria thats happening. Its going on all over the world. Its just not as exposed and if it is, he definitely won't even mention it. The U.S has to much of a deficit to start getting involved with other countries problems but at the same time, the news about Syria is too much to ignore now. Who knows what could lead up to after going into Syria. Its best to make a deal with the U.S, if the military is going to get involved with Syria, the government better make poverty an extreme topic as well and actually help the lower class. In Obama’s speech he only mentioned the middle class. The middle class obviously is not at rock bottom. Theres actually a class lower than that, in extreme poverty which I'm sure he’s heard of. But he can surely turn his head the other way but can ignore other country’s wars. If Obama didn't know, he’s also killing slowly his own citizens, his all the money, jobs and opportunity he’s taken away from us. Why can't other countries come and stop him from doing this and help us too? Other countries always rely on the U.S to step in and be the hero of the innocents, but the U.S has its own problems that are never approached but just pushed away for the poor to deal with. The rich could care less about the president's action because their health is going to stay the same, they don't care, they’re not affected by it. Its the people who are barely living off $ 1,000 a year who are actually going to get hit the harder and their children the hardest, off these political decision. They are the ones who are worried where their money is going and if its going to do them any good, are they going to get something out their hard days of work? Maybe just some more money taken out of their paycheck to fund the war. Are we working each and every day just to pay for another war to start? Might as well quit right now. The government doesn't fund money right out their fancy wallets. While we struggle to keep our nation rising in stable economy, the government is not worried about his own citizens dying in extreme poverty, they’re focusing more on national security with other countries problem. They rather take care of them first instead of their own country. 

''Anytime you seriously dissect the issue on poverty, you have to talk about wealth and income inequality(105).'' Its obvious that the government wont talk about poverty, its becuase if they do, they have no choice but to also talk about the roots of where it got created and the things around it that are sinking poeple down into poverty. The government is afraid to talk about how rich and wealthy they are and how its that 1% of people who are killing people and leaving them on the lower class.