Sharing

IT WAS ONE OF THOSE "leaked" government reports of the usual sort, but indications are that these United States,as always acting ostensibly on behalf of the American people but in actuality acting on behalf of America's corporate owners and masters, has issued what amounts to an ultimatum to the African country of Uganda, threatening to end all Amercan medical and financial assistance for fighting AIDS, unless said U.S. receives in return Uganda's mineral rights to its copper, nickel, and cobalt. For the U.S. to seek access to these metals is understandable. To seek it in this manner is, quite arguably, unconscionable,indeed, nefarious, perfidious. The problem with this leaked report is that it seems to have a certain basis in reality, rather than merely being another internet lie. Bottom line: if you are a decent person or country, you cannot and do not tie emergency medical assistance to industrial mineral resources as a bargaining chip, no matter how devilishly tempting it might be. Surely not. Or do you, do we, should we? Are we? We the people sure as hell ought to know, and should find out, poste haste. I for one intend to find out...surely, not my America. Trump's America? Who knows? Life saving plague stopping modern miracle medicines and vaccines for diseases like AIDS and all the rest, should be available to everybody, regardless of abilitiy to pay, surely we can all agree, at a reasonably low cost. Yes, we want productivity and proper payment from everyone, but, we want everyone in the world vaccinated for everything, every year, no matter what, full stop. We can iron out the financial details and discuss the efficacy of vaccines with our ant-vaxxer comrades while vaccinating at a feverish pace, pun intended. It is all well and good that the U.S. wants and needs mineral resources form other countries, at times, for various worthwhile purposes, and vice versa. And yes, let's make deals, in a civilized, cooperative manner. But let's not go full Trump, the low life dishonest low life approach of extortaion and deceit, which if of course what Don teh Con is all about, and always has been, in plain sight. Let's make the arrangements cooperatively, for the benefit of as many people as possible, not jsut the billionaires and corporations. On this fragile planet we humans will of necessity do more sharing in the future, of everything, at all levels, for our survival. Consider, for instance, American capitalism. The more money we distribute, by any means, among America's poorest people, the more economic growth we have, including and especially among the millionaires and billionaires. An economic system, a nation's economy, is inevitably a pyramed, a pyrmaid best build long, broad, and low, an close to the ground, with the top being close enough to the ground to be seen from the ground...With food,clothing,shelter, and health, lettuce all help each other, and share. When all of our basic needs are met sustainably, for all of us, we can knock ourselves out competing for luxuries, frivolities and non essential goods and services in the great sacred totally normal and natural Adam Smithian free market level playing field of economics and life, or whatever. Nobody should have to fight and struggle constantly to simply live. Surely we can have some basic socialism for the poor. Lord knows we have had, and still have, through our economic and taxation system, plenty of socialism for the wealthy.