Here's Many Billion Ways How..........
We are constantly bombarded by stats showing how American students are down in the pack in common academic skills and subjects. You can’t go from point A to point B without being jarred by potholes in our roads. Our power plants work around the clock at almost full capacity, and blackouts are increasingly common. We have some domestic problems.
Also year after year, there are billions of dollars spent in the federal budget that prop up governments that refuse to fall in line with democratic concepts and in general contribute to the destabilization of their region, and in some cases the world (Saudi Arabia and Russia respectively).
I’d like to meet the whiz kids that decided (and still decide) this was a good practice. What group of little geniuses thinks sending billions to Europe who are more than capable of taking care of themselves or those that sponsor or give material aid to terrorists and dictators is a good idea? Not exactly a good investment on our dollar.
In the mean time, American roads, utilities, and other infrastructure ages and deteriorates, and our children get “more stupider.” I am a strict believer in small government, and know budget deficits aren’t a matter of under-funding (the fed collects trillions in tax dollars each year), they are caused by overspending. While we ship billions in cash to foreign lands to buy compliance and friendship—which never, ever works by the way—the rising cost of education, coupled with worsening results have created a crisis domestically. The Constitution provides ONLY for a Department of State, Defense, Treasury, and Justice (please point me to where I can find the Departments of H.U.D, Agriculture, etc.), but Federal spending has grown out of control. Yet education and infrastructure, two things vital to American success, fail while billions are shipped to governments and given to other needless domestic programs that hinder us everyday.
We need to stop foreign payments now. Civil contracts for infrastructure repair and reproduction and enhancing our educational system can put a new generation of Americans into a level of prosperity unsurpassed in human history. And there are billions of dollars thrown away annually that can help make that possible.
A concerted effort could help open a new domestic job sector, enhance our culture, stop corporate outsourcing, set up young Americans for a better future, and have the byproduct of helping secure our homeland. What are we waiting for?