This week in AIS we have been working very diligently on our "Perilous Times" project with the numerous wars America has been related to what strikes me as interesting and also almost scary is how much money wars are. I mean we spend something around 50 million dollars a month on the war in Iraq and i don't understand what for. And although i dont understand why really we are still there when the middle-east has been in chaos for decades and what makes us think we can really change things, i mean maybe we can but why should we be having up to ten american casualties a month. I mean whats also frightining is where is all this money coming from. I mean there is just so many wasted money i believe the government is throwing away where we, America, have many problems of our own. I mean with these huge california forest fires and Hurrican Ivan near florida. I mean just really i was watching a movie comercial for some movie with will smith but it shows him in front of NYC or some huge bustling town but its completely empty and he says that god didnt end the world, we did. And i think that that is a very though provoking line in which the way we really do end the world and how these huge companies make all this money and eventually we'll be the consumers of basically three different huge organizations. I just think its funny on how companies disguise things like one needs them when its basic things one haves around there house. For example my mothers is the biggest consumer on the planet and put an infomercial and she will be on the phone in minutes but anyways an example is this new "Clorox anywhere hard surface tm" and its just so stupid like my mom was spraying it and i was saying mom you realize that that is basically just really watered down bleach and it is and its just so stupid. Also if the sales tax goes up to 11% in Cook county like where is this money going. And like the taxes around here are so much and yea we get a great education but then we go and spend around 5 thousand dollars on getting 2 like HD Toshib tv's in the main entrance that no one ever looks at but we can't replace a broken desk. Or paying $800 for a semesters worth of books and then the bookstore buys them back for half the price of what you paid and then sell it back in the fall for double what they paid you for it. I mean with all the wasted moeny and all the debt in the world should we be preparing for a perilous time?