Issue Position: National Debt

Issue Position

Our national debt is out of control. It is more than seventeen Trillion Dollars and growing daily. Our politicians pay lip service to making any changes to address and or to reverse the pattern that created and continues to add to our national debt. Our politicians do not seem to care, as it will be inherited and paid for by our children and grandchildren. The jaws of the special interests and military industrial lobbyists are constantly in the ears of our elected government officials to fund their pet projects of course with reciprocity through campaign contributions and the like. In Washington it is the loudest voices and largest campaign contributors that get the attention and the corresponding legislation.

A few days ago, the Pentagon announced plans for a new Stealth Bomber at an initial cost of over $60,000,000,000.00. Yes, that is Sixty Billion Dollars, and that is the initial estimate. Historically, estimates are traditionally on the very low end, and "cost" overruns are the normal in defense contracts. It is outrageous that this kind of spending of taxpayer funds are routinely committed without regards to the long term effects of our foreign policy and our national debt.

Additionally and coupled with the excessive Pentagon spending our foreign "aid" is equally out of control. For example, the most recent figures of tax payer dollars "GIVEN AWAY" by our government in the last fiscal year was over $35,000,000,000.00! Yes that is Thirty Five Billion Dollars through which we continue to "buy" friends with our foreign "aid", while we are actually mortgaging our children's future by borrowing money to give away. It is insane. Imagine a family deeply in debt that continues to borrow more to give away. This borders on treasonous acts by politicians, as our elected government official continues to burden our children with massive debts just so they give away to "friends and foes" indiscriminately.

We must address domestic issues BEFORE worrying about issues in other countries as we cannot continue to keep supporting the world and keeping getting deeper and deeper in debt in the process. It is time that together we change that cancerous "spendthrift" system. Imagine the additional benefits to the economy if all those "foreign" aid dollars are spent at home from increased employment, reduction in our tax rates, and repairs to our infrastructure.

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