That's the U.S. for you: Fund wars but not health care
Can anyone explain why American taxpayers are more willing to fund wars in far-off places than spend their money on health care at home? And why Americans can tolerate so much death and destruction in Iraq and Afghanistan but show so little interest in saving thousands of citizens’ lives?
This Christian nation’s priorities are terribly confusing. But these church-going people are all up in arms over how much health care reform will cost yet keep their mouths shut over the billions the country has borrowed to crash overpriced planes and helicopters in the mountains of Afghanistan.
Between March 2003 and July of this year, 4,200 U.S. military personnel have been killed in Iraq, according to the Brookings Institution. To deploy one, just one, U.S. soldier for one year in Iraq costs a freaking $390,000, according to the Congressional Research Service. Can you ever imagine paying that much for your health insurance premium? So why does health care spending make people so angry? The real ripoff is military spending. Wake up and smell your hard-earned dollars burning in Iraq, taxpaying public.
Here are some other stats that should make you just a little bit angry:
After tolerating an administration that did nothing to boost American’s esteem, morale and quality of life, people are now so worried about a deficit that was dumped on them by that administration. An administration that focused its misspent energies on doing everything in its power to leave this country in a recession and deep, deep in debt. But the growing debt wasn’t a problem when the Bush folks were creating it. Now, Obama has no choice but to keep borrowing to fund our insane and hypocritical habits even as he makes the case that we need to control costs on the very expense that people are crying is out of hand: health care.
Don’t you wish Americans would start making sense?
I totally agree that we have spent too much money in Irag, health care should be one of our many priorities but the powers that be (republicans) can’t even act civil when it comes to these town hall meetings. Hopefully people can stop avoiding the discussion and bring something with real content to the table.