It seems that there's nothing we can do about the debt, so why don't we spend trillions more on medical research to cure all the diseases and helping other countries with their R&D andwith building new houses and feeding the poor building new infrastructure with roads and bridges and for the US build more high speed trins and concords?
2006-09-15 12:12:39 · 10 answers · asked by Jordan economic researcher 1 in Social Science ➔ Economics
We only borrow money for things the GOP thinks are important, like policing overseas civil wars.
They'd have a holy sh*t fit if we borrowed money to educate people, or provide universal health care, or clean up the environment, or get off foreign oil.
2006-09-15 12:15:16 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The first books in human history described poverty. There is nothing anyone can do to eliminate different levels of income. Some people will always have more and some people will have less. It is just a matter of perception. 300 years ago Kings slept on straw beds and ate gruel and had no bathroom , no shower, no Nike shoes. Now everyone has much better than the old Kings but they still think they are poor.
Jesus said, the poor will always be with you. Why do you think the US should be responsible for curing poverty ? We have done more for the poor of the world than all other nations combined.
2006-09-15 12:31:17 · answer #2 · answered by sonny_too_much 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because most of that debt is from military spending. We hand billions and billions to the military industrial complex in order to build ridiculously expensive killing machines, when our enemies are kids with car bombs and box cutters.
This is done because there's money to be made (for private companies) in war technology. There's no money to be made in feeding the poor.
Basically, it's a failure of long term planning. If most people would sit down and think, they'd realize that what you're talking about would be a better investment in the long term prosperity of the country. But most people don't sit down and think about things.
2006-09-15 12:21:08 · answer #3 · answered by Shannon H 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Are you crazy? The debt is what it is primarily because of spending for "the poor" entitlement programs are the largest portions of the Federal budget. How about we shrink the government back down to what it should be and let stupid people die off early so they don't breed?
2006-09-15 12:15:51 · answer #4 · answered by icynici 4 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Yeah, why don't we just print more money...lets build an elevator to the moon too.
2006-09-15 12:18:24 · answer #5 · answered by K.O. 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
“I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.”
-Thomas Jefferson
2006-09-15 16:11:59 · answer #6 · answered by Zak 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
nope, but they will take money away from education and social service to fund a policing action.
2006-09-16 10:02:03 · answer #7 · answered by King Midas 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This is a good description of Bush-onomics.
2006-09-15 12:14:37 · answer #8 · answered by Teacher 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Maybe...because it's the US
2006-09-15 12:13:54 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
idk
i agree w/ u though
2006-09-15 12:16:08 · answer #10 · answered by hah woww 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋