I know I'm probably going to take a lot of flack for this, but please read the whole post before you rush to judgement. Pres. Osama (oops, Obama) just pledged $100 million of our taxpayer $ to Haiti. I wonder if that's in addition to the costs of sending the 82nd Airborne, the USS Carl Vincent, etc.?
Actually, I have no problem with the military help, but I do have a problem with the $100 mil of taxpayer money. Americans are the most caring and generous people on the planet. The way this should be done is the government creates a fund for any American to DONATE to for Haitian relief. It is not the governments job to TAKE MONEY OUT OF OUR KIDS POCKETS to give to other countries. WE JUST CANNOT AFFORD IT!!!
We don't have it, it will just add to the already incredible deficit.
You do understand one reason everything is so expensive today is that the government keeps printing more money without anything to back it up, making each dollar you have worth less and less, right? When the Euro first came out, 1 dollar equaled 1 Euro. I believe the latest exchange rate is it takes $1.50 to equal 1 Euro. This is called inflation, and our government has been fudging the figures for the last 3 or 4years or so. They report an artificially low inflation rate because they factor in the drop in the price of homes. So that reported rate is only true for someone who purchases a home in that year. Lets say they report the cost of living only went up 2.5%. But the price of energy (gas, home heating oil, electricity, etc.) went up 10%, the price of groceries went up 10%, etc. So what is YOUR true inflation rate? Right, 10%. Now the great majority of peoples annual raises are based on the governments inflation rate. So you've been losing 5 to 15% of your actual purchasing power every year for the last several years.
Again I say, make sure you thank your congress for their out of control spending.
Dumb Farmer
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What a great world! Everyone bitches When Uncle Sam is the "Policeman of the world" but its great when we are the "EMT of the world"! After we feed the Haitians and rebuild their country- we should "Nation Build" Their government- get rid of the corruption,(at least down to the amount we have in the USA) and finally get that country able to take care of itself !! Why is it that an island can be split,one side, a stable prosperous country, and on the other side, a fourth world country-Rich and extremely poor!
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