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Originally Posted by ObieX
If only we could shift only 23 of those 623 billion dollars to things like ending world hunger. Or how about just 1 for those folks down in New Orleans. Instead we spend a couple hundred thousand dollars to blow up some guy in a desert someplace. The answers to the problems politicians have been talking about for decades has been sitting in the budget for our military. But then again if we fixed all these problems what would the politicians have to run on? Being female? Having black skin? Loving Jeebus? Oh, wait.. those are already the core issues of our politics in this country  |
This is part of the issue that I brought up in post #2. People think that they need to deal with issues in parts of the world, country, or state that they don't live in, yet ignore those very issues in their own county, city, neighborhood. While compassion for the world hunger problem is all sweet and emotionally heartfelt, what does it do for folks living underneath the interstate overpass 15 miles from your house? Or the kids on the other side of town who wear the same set of clothes 3 days in a row because they don't have anything else, or the lonely old widow 5 doors down from you that eats cat food because her social security check barely pays her prescription bills?
One of the main reasons we have such a bloated federal government now is because people in small communities saw huge dollars in federal handouts, therefore giving them all this money and power, but does it accomplish what the people originally intended? not even close. As history would dictate, those in control of the money, rarely do with it what was intended. Is there any incentive to change this? of course not.
If you truly want to make a change in the world, start in your own neighborhood and take the power away from a bloated central government that isn't doing what you wanted it to.