The US credit rating has just been dropped from AAA to AA+ by Standard & Poor's!

[WeeYari]

Putting myself at risk of a severe flaming here.

During all the economic turmoil of the past 3 years, I've always been perplexed at how the U.S. could continue to fund its war efforts. I once had heard the $$$/day on military spending and was absolutely floored by the figure. Wish I could remember what it was.

And the Space Program.....

While I applaud your nation for your humanitarian efforts, I believe that taking care of your own should not suffer to the extent that it has.

[Kal-El]

Originally Posted by WeeYari

Putting myself at risk of a severe flaming here.

During all the economic turmoil of the past 3 years, I've always been perplexed at how the U.S. could continue to fund its war efforts. I once had heard the $$$/day on military spending and was absolutely floored by the figure. Wish I could remember what it was.

And the Space Program.....

While I applaud your nation for your humanitarian efforts, I believe that taking care of your own should not suffer to the extent that it has.

You bring up good points. I'm a conservative libertarian but agree we need to spend far less money around the world. Unfortunately, it for some reason became America's responsibility to "police the world" because no one else would or could. Do we need to prevent terrorism? Yes, but only where it's a true danger and a danger to us. Yet, we have 10's of thousands of troops in peaceful countries on our side. Why?

And I'm sorry, but foreign aid needs to stop except for the most extreme of emergencies. Our debt is $14.5 trillion, why are we giving money away? We borrow, to donate. Hello?