candycorn
Diamond Member
There is always waste and the next truly fiscally responsible politician I meet will be the first truly fiscally responsible politician I meet. You left out tons of things. Who do you think is truly paying for the new schools and hospitals in Bagdhad and Kabul? Its us on our credit card. This is beyond the military hardware we've given away which will be pointed at us in the next decades.
What makes me laugh--it doesn't bother me so much anymore because I'm pretty numb to it--is the hypocrisy of "We don't have money for _______". When I worked in public health, I used to order contraceptives that we gave out to what we called "at risk" populations. The drug makers would sell them to the state under the 340B program. I could buy thousands and thousands of cycles for pennies compared to what you'd pay at CVS. The program "modified" because republicans found out that this meant people were having sex. So we have more unwanted pregnancies, more single parent households, more poverty. This "modification" happened in the early 2000's. Gee, guess what is happening in our inner cities 15-18 years later. The kids who grew up without fathers and roaming the streets riot when there is any reason...good or bad. There is some demonstrations the violence is just from thug culture. Pennies spent back in 2005 would save millions of dollars later on. It's a vivid cause and effect relationship. The GOP solution? Lets send in more troops which miraculously are well paid for.
