The United States has raised its debt ceiling to $13,000,000,000,000. That's 13 TRILLION dollars.

The US spends a modest $1,000,000,000--one billion dollars--a day on its current wars. So every three years its war expenses are $1,800,000,000,000--1.8 trillion. How much is the total military budget a year?

And what does the US spend, annually, on health care, education, housing for the poor, environmental repair, foreign aid?

To put it another way? How much money does the US spend on destruction, and how much does it spend on construction?

And how much does the US spend on a worse-than useless counterproductive government? Is there anybody--ANYBODY--in Washington who earns his pay? And of course, they don't need pay at all: they are generously reimbursed by the rich obscenities who own them.

Let's do away with government. Pay off our debt with what we save. Squeeze the "defense industry" out of existence. Individually remove all our money from banks and other financial institutions.

And then, when everything has come to a standstill something like what happened to passenger railroad service in America: then lets abolish the dollar, and start over.

No more rich people. No more hoarders and grossers and grabbers and greeders.

We can declare ourselves a Free Nation: a nation dedicated to Commonwealth, to the "common good." We can declare for the idea of Society, instead of the stupidity of Capitalism.

We can set as our ideal that strongest and safest of virtues, Peace, and refuse the destructive vice called War--or, in the official US euphemism since 1945, Defense. (That's when Roosevelt's "War Department" was re-named the "Defense Deparment." It is the US "Defense Department" that is currently engaged in four, maybe five Offensive Wars, called on the one hand "necessary" and on the other "Wars of Choice." It is warrior Obama's departing Secretary of Defense who called Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya, and maybe Syria "Wars of Choice.")

The prison that provided the court for the World War II War Crimes trials has been restored. The US put Nazi Germany on trial there. It is now time for the world to put the US on trial there: it is ready for us.

If we don't halt the way we live now, in the United States--if we don't change our whole way of life--we may have to submit to such judgement.

Ah, but no. The United States has 10,000 nuclear weapons with which it daily threatens the whole world. We have used them in the past. We have threatened to use them again, for 66 years now.

But there might be a window of hope yet. Maybe the United States could be persuaded to save itself from bankruptcy by selling all its nuclear weapons to a responsible nation like Germany--for lots of money. Or maybe the Americans could sell them to those utterly trustworthy Penguins on the South Pole.

Penguins are smart: they don't have nuclear weapons, wars. capitalism, or any of those other bad things. The sane world would help them buy America's weapons of destruction--on condition that in the future Americans only destroy each other.

Remember: The family that prays together stays together. Jesus loved sinners--and hated war. God is on America's side--or at least the American God($$$$)is: that's what American coins and dollar bills all say: "In God We Trust."

Is God a nuclear weapon?

Enough. Or too much.