Dear 1%, “powers that be”, very wealthy, ‘unspeakable’ in the USA,

I am really sorry for bothering you and know I do not matter in your lives. However, I have a question that has been disturbing me for quite awhile and I thought I would be bold and ask you directly. The question is how much more do you want from us?

You already have most of the world’s wealth leaving a little bit for us to fight over. You have us at ‘endless wars’ with each other where you profit from both sides? The US has the largest military budget ever, bigger than the other nine nations behind it combined. War is very profitable to you and the USA has become the largest arm dealer in the world. What more do you want?

You have given us a new health insurance system that some like and some hate but continues to make large profits for you. Illness and injuries make you money. What more do you want?

You have us politically divided and while we fight each other, conservative vs. liberal, Republican vs. Democrat you keep on moving the nation in the direction you want us to be, making more money for you. What more do you want?

You have replaced ‘communism’ with ‘terrorism’ and the more we kill terrorist and others in our way the more terrorism we have in the world. What more do you want?

You have made our system of voting irrelevant. We just think we are making a change by voting for the least objectionable candidate while persons with the most money generally win. What more do you want?

Our public school education system is dying while you direct more and more money into private education. What more do you want?

The racially poor are more segregated than ever and while we fight and blame each other we neglect to see your powers and wealth. What more do you want?

You have made ‘money’ free speech and corporations ‘persons’. What more do you want?

You control all the major media, radio, newspapers, TV, movies and now you want to control the little bit of the internet free for the rest of us. What more do you want?

You distract us by giving us more and more issues and concerns, environment, violence, racism, budget cuts for common good, education and wars each day. What more do you want?

Rather than working together we compete against each other for attention and we get nowhere, but more distracted. What more do you want?

I am sorry for bothering you but if you could just answer my questions maybe lives could be saved. I worry that the more you get the more you want. Greed has a way of taking over morals and justice.

Thank you for hearing me out though I expect this letter will be ignored. In fact, I do not even know who to send it to.

Just another nobody and reject,

Bob Graf

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