What have we done and how can we fix it? Do all our problems revolve around billions of dollars? Money must be the common root cause of our problems. No, we can’t eliminate money. It is how wealth and power are demonstrated and it runs through the problems discussed below.

Drug abuse is a general term for over prescribed drugs like Oxycodone and Fentanyl which caused many people to move on to street drugs like heroin, marijuana, and cocaine with its derivatives. The prescription drugs have been over prescribed by doctors because the drug companies pushed them. They said they were not addictive so the companies could make more money. The cartels sell the addicts drugs when the prescriptions run out. The drugs make money from the Columbian growers to the street dealers. Legal and illegal drugs make billions.

When I was a kid, the gangs in cities would have fights over territories and slights or no reason. Their weapons were usually homemade zip guns, knives, and bats. Not its automatic pistols and assault guns. Why? – because the money goes to the manufacturers who have flooded us with weapons for their billions. The lobbyists and the NRA have made billions by conning people into thinking they are necessary for protection from the guns they sold.

The gangs selling the drugs and buying and selling the guns are an invention of our addictions and greed. We created our own disasters and we don’t know how to fix them. We don’t seem to get off drugs and we can’t seem to get over the childish fascination with guns. Our country would be much better off if we could quit our drug addiction and melt 200 million guns.