In the past decade, the United States has suffered the loss of four million lives through automobile accidents largely preventable through safer design requirements, improved highway safety measures, and better driver training. The United States have done bugger all to solve this problem other than whinging about the financial costs.

In the past decade, four hundred thousand female US residents have lost their lives through violent assault, often associated with rape, robbery, or domestic assault. The United States have done little to stop this slow slaughter, have refused to enact laws protecting women and children from violence and exploitation, other than the short-lived Federal Violence Against Women Act, the key provisions of which were struck down by the US Supreme Court in United States v. Morrison, in which a woman who'd been raped and brutalised by two "heroes" of a local sports team tried to find justice in Federal courts after the perpetrators were set free without punishment. Of course, she failed.

It seems clear that mere *lives* mean little or nothing to the US government, but destroy important *buildings* generating millions of dollars in profit every year and it's an outrage, one which that same government is willing to spend trillions of dollars, and many thousands of US citizen's lives, to avenge.

Now if those poor female or transgendered victims had been the *male* heads of major corporations, they might have received more consideration, perhaps even justice, but as "nobodies", nobody seems to give a damn.

Exactly what was that so-called American Revolution about? It seems to have slipped my mind.

Puddin'
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I've got plenty of nothing,
And nothing's plenty for me.
--- Ira Gershwin, Dubose Heyward, from Porgy and Bess