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From Rationalizing to Rational Americans

Last week the Washington Post reported that one in four children go hungry in the U.S.   The next day several experts cited no protective financial measures have been enacted from the Dodd-Frank reforms exposing Americans to the same   vulnerabilities we suffered   before the   2008 crash.   Finally the Post reported   the wasteful   multi-million dollar Afghanistan military bases built and not used.      So what do all these things have in common?   No longer are we rational Americans, however, now rationalizing ones.   Individual gain at the expense of millions is becoming the rule not the exemption.   How long we will allow greed, and military insecurity eroding the chances for our future prosperity?   Our founding fathers wished balance ambition with ambition.   Today special interests threaten the very core of democracy.   Are we of the United States or “we the people” when a select few now command such power?   Are we at the point where the one percent   dominant the remaini