If our country was not bankrupt by every standard practice of accounting, I would be the first to thump my chest and roar loudly and act as a super power.
Wake up and smell the coffee. We are $17.6 TRILLION in official debt and $95 TRILLION in unfunded liabilities from laws on books for future benefits to Medicare, Medicaid & Social Security and interest due on national debt.
Every super power in history met it’s demise with military adventures on a bankrupt treasury. This is not the era of Ronald Reagan when our economy was strong, thanks to his policies.
Our children and grandchildren already owe Trillions of debt to China, Japan & other foreigners. This is not the time to be chicken hawks.
We better strengthen the economy, pay off the debt and then we can thump our chest again.
What I find to be entertaining, is the folks who come here to lament our various expenses, saying we just can’t do it any longer. Foreign aid, wars...
Lumped together these won’t reach half what our outlay in welfare has been.
Since 2000, we have spent approximately $7.5 trillion on welfare. We have not spent $3.75 trillion on the other combined.
So when folks come here professing to only care about the plight of the United States financially, I just smile and think, suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuure you do.
$7.5 trillion, and it doesn’t even hit your radar. Our military spending on foreign wars, now there’s a serious problem.
No, actually it isn’t. It’s the price of keeping the world free. Who benefits from that the most?
I’d say a global super-power does. It’s citizen do. Keeping the high seas safe for passage, and keeping terrorists in check as much as possible, those benefit us all, whether you realize it or not.