Priorities

Sometimes you wonder about what the priorities of our national government might be. It is always reflected less in the things they talk about than in the things they choose to spend tax revenue doing. It is like the old saying "Actions talk, bullshit walks". I came across this in my reading the other day and I don't completely agree.

This is not a true statement. I think George Carlin hit on it more correctly when he stated to the effect that they didn't care about you from the time you were born until you were military age. When you can enlist in the armed forces and go fight a war somewhere they care about you. He stated they wanted live babies so they could turn them into dead soldiers. If you are pre-born they care, if you are pre-school you are screwed. Is there anything that backs this notion up?

I don't want to focus on the statement at the bottom but on the chart above it. Military spending takes over half of the discretionary spending in the federal budget. We spend more on defense than any other country on earth. We spend more on defense than the next ten countries combined. We feed our war machine all day every day. We burden college students with loans for their education. We allow our roads and bridges to crumble. We permit our government to collect information on every facet of our lives to "preserve our freedom". If you keep up on the news then you must also realize that the government stops caring about you when your military career ends. Veterans go to war, fight the fight that politicians refuse to call wars. (The last time Congress actually declared war was World War 2)  So when these men and women return from the fighting missing limbs, or hands or feet, addicted to drugs, physically or mentally traumatized we are forcing them to wait weeks or months to get the care we promised them.

These are some of the men who want to be the Republican nominee for President of the United States. Listen when they talk and think about what they say. Are their priorities the same as yours? Do you see the future the way they do? Where and how do you want your tax dollars spent? Ask questions, read, think and demand answers.