Quote:I just can't support spending money we simply don't have. 17 trillion dollars we're not exactly in the position to fund Anyone's foreign interest regardless of how much we agree or disagree with them.

 

At 17 trillion and counting the time has come for America to understand this debt is not a credit card we can just keep transferring balances on. Everyone talks about change but no one really wants change. It's going to REQUIRE a drastic change in American Foreign AND Domestic policy to BEGIN to dig out of this mess.

 

That means allies are going to have to fend for themselves for a while, it means the poor are going to feel more poor, it means business's are going to fail, the days of America as the world police are coming to end one way or another. If we at least chose to throttle back we may be able to at least influence the world in the near future, if we continue full throttle building and defending nations we will become the next Soviet Union.

 

That's nice in theory but then the arms industry will dump a few more million into a bunch of campaign funds and suddenly the rhetoric becomes about protecting American allies & interests overseas. And then those allies are encouraged to buy a few more Abrams tanks and a few more Apaches helicopters and can't forget a couple dozen F-35's as well.

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