As of 8:37 a.m. Eastern time Friday, May 20, 2011, the U.S. national debt was
$55,354,057,812,217
and each individual U.S. citizen - every man, woman, and child - owed
$177,767
By the time this is read, the debt will be substantially more.
You can watch it climb at http://www.usdebtclock.org/#.
At the same time the national debt - our indebtedness - is skyrocketing, the president (POTUS) is promising billions for potential - likely - enemies of the U.S. in hopes he can buy friends.
Mr. President: This has NEVER worked; not for Democrats and not for Republicans.
It certainly will not work dealing with Moslems who want to take over the world.
What MIGHT work is another Great White Fleet; the fleet that Teddy Roosevelt sent around the world proving his "Speak softly and carry a big stick" philosophy worked. (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_White_Fleet.)
For all that, where is Congress going to get the money so you can keep your rash promise?
While I support limited, emergency foreign aid - e.g., helping Haiti's poor recover from that country's several disasters - I fail to see any benefit of aid to Egypt (the U.S.' partner who was overthrown) or the so called PLO (whose former leader pocketed a large percentage of the loot); even Israel, a country that probably can stand on its own if it could be weaned from the U.S.' financial teat.
The U.S. is owned by others, primarily by China.
No longer are Americans an independent people nor is our country still ours.
We have been "sold out" by Washington - by both Democrats and Republicans - and you, Mr. President, are continuing the great - and stupid - tradition of selling our children's futures for your own glory - "Look how I helped <pick a country>." Never mind it was money generations to come must earn.
It might not be so bad were the promises not coming on the heels of an invasion of a country involved in a civil war, an invasion in which we had no right to participate. (Remember the Monroe Doctrine?)
And never mind that the rulers the rioters are overthrowing managed to keep the lid on internal strife - much like the Communists in the former Soviet Union.
And never mind that, if all the revolting countries follow in the path of Egypt and Gaza they will be dominated by terrorists determined to eliminate the Great Satan - the U.S. - and then all the infidels - until they run out of infidels then they'll start on each other.
Not only do your promises sell us and our children and their children into debtor's prison - for truly, owning debt we can never repay is a prison - you are selling us to a people who hate us, who WILL "bite the hand that feeds them."
Is there anyone in Congress with the intelligence and intestinal fortitude to prevent POTUS from giving away our future?
