American Spending On Its War Machine, Why It’s Bankrupting the US, and How to Turn It Around

The US Government’s War Against Its Own People: A Misdirection of Resources for All the Wrong Reasons

Minister Paul J Bern
6 min readMar 12, 2023

(Matthew chapter 5, verses 5, 9) by Rev. Paul J. Bern

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American soldiers installing an oil rig like when they planted the flag on Iwo Jima

All across America these days, we have several things in turmoil all at once. First, we have rampant discrimination, where women, people of color, minorities and immigrants still only earn two thirds as much as Caucasian men do. Moreover, institutionalized racism still exists where there should be none, and especially not in the 21st century.

Welcome College Students! Here’s Your Payment Book….

Second, we have institutionalized unfairness, where only the kids from the wealthiest families get a chance to obtain a college degree. Everybody else has to take out predatory student loan(s) that can never be fully repaid. These fresh college graduates face a lifetime of indebtedness. They have all simply wanted to better themselves, and this is what they get? Financial slavery?

Inequality Everywhere

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Minister Paul J Bern

Rev. Paul J. Bern is a Web pastor and blogger on The Social Gospel Blog on Medium and Substack. Longtime Atlanta Ga. resident; stroke survivor; piano player