WEATHER, WEATHER

Weather, let's get it all together. Whether the weather's cold or hot, a lot of snow and ice or just a nice calm and balmy day, storm and wind and hurricane, earthquakes that shake and rip the earth apart, death that breaks a heart and shatters a dream at the start, inspired minds in search of cures, relief from pain mankind endures, plans and dreams and even schemes, it seems, might have repaired or cared for victims of catastrophe.

All unrealized by research denied for religious reasons or a single shot fired from a madman's gun or someone with a war to be won or a disease for which a cure could have been found with a little luck and a million or so bucks wasted on fancy cars and unwinable wars.

It's tragic but true that a government can do most anything, find millions for bullets and bombs and armament but when it comes to helping the poor or finding a cure they can't afford a dollar or a cent, We've got a policy to fight a war and kill and destroy, then rebuild the enemy's homes and economy and let our vets rot away in a hospital bay with missing body parts, some blind, some with troubled war-shocked minds. Lifetime disabilities of every kind.

And who gives a damn? Not Uncle Sam.