I just learned that our Federal government has not yet released the promised relief funds to victims of the recent east coast hurricane. Also that the bill authorizing the funds has been saddled with MORE PORK. For me, not knowing the exact means and methods of bringing a bill before the Congress, this is the ultimate stupidity of the day. The people in charge of these things, somehow, do not get it. They are so disconnected from the citizens of America that, apparently, they can no longer tell time. Why is there ANY pork attached to this urgently needed funding? As this bill progressed from office to office someone stopped progress long enough to slip in billions of dollars of pork. Who allowed this to happen? Who added each line of pork? Why should they not be punished in some way?
We all know that there are serious problems with ou American political system. The federal government and national media have been telling us that we continue to lead the world in just about everything. Unfortunately, we do not. Measuring our status against other nations is difficult as it entails comparison of different attributes and characteristics. Comparisons are, at best, crude. Surely, if we look, it's clear that America is no longer dominant among the world's communities.
For decades following the 1929 economic depression, America has enriched foreign industries at the expense of our own. We have subsidized foreign military powers while allowing the depletion of our own. We've defended other nations borders while, at the same time, not defended our own. We've spent trillions of dollars to subsidize unworthy governments, and let our own infrastructure to fall into disrepair.
The use of our economic power as a diplomatic tool may have been the correct thing to d…
For decades following the 1929 economic depression, America has enriched foreign industries at the expense of our own. We have subsidized foreign military powers while allowing the depletion of our own. We've defended other nations borders while, at the same time, not defended our own. We've spent trillions of dollars to subsidize unworthy governments, and let our own infrastructure to fall into disrepair.
The use of our economic power as a diplomatic tool may have been the correct thing to d…
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