Recite The Pledge

With most Americans so cavalier about existential threats to both life and liberty, but still bean counting their bottom line, a new pledge for them should be "by, for, and with the Almighty dollar". We have a struggle of civilization versus nihilism engulfing the Middle East. We have Ebola ravaging Africa and now infiltrating America. We have the Enterovirus D68 paralyzing and killing children in the United States on a scale unseen since polio was rampant. With a surveillance state apparatus intercepting every electronic transmission, how come the US is unable to defeat the rising Islamic State or even thwart a Muslim madman beheading a coworker in Oklahoma, allegedly after copious postings lauding Islamic beheading on his Facebook page? Yet, all we hear from too many is "how is my 401k plan doing?" How can so many life-threatening catastrophes be imperiling us, so much of our freedom be eroding, and yet so many of us are gauging everything by how much money we can hoard?