Jacques Youssef

The State Of The Union Today Part 3

Posted by Jacques on September 20, 2009 | 3 Comments

Our national debt is over 11 trillion dollars and rising fast, Medicare is close to bankruptcy, social security will run out of money soon, our economy is close to a state of depression, our industry and manufacturing have been shipped oversees, home foreclosures are destroying families, and our schools, inter-state highways, bridges and tunnels are collapsing.

With all this happening in our country, congress has approved 21 billion dollars in aid to foreign countries. We have spent 3 trillion dollars on the war in Iraq. This was not a war to protect the American citizens. Instead we were lied to and continue on being lied to. Iraq did not attack us and we had no business invading a sovereign country.

This was George W. Bush’s and Dick Cheney’s war. George Bush wanted to prove to his father, that he could be a better commander in chief than George Bush Senior; he wanted to prove to his father that he could do a better job in Iraq then his father did. As the war progressed Dick Chaney made billions of dollars in profits from weapons manufacturers and oil companies.

After seven years, the war is still going on, and we are throwing away close to half trillion dollars a year while our own citizens are in economic crisis. After we “discovered” that weapons of mass destruction were no where to be found in Iraq, the main objective of the war became the spreading of “democracy” throughout the Middle East…what a joke!

To say our government has the slightest concern of spreading democracy in the Middle East is an insult to the American people. Some of our major “allies” in the region are the worst kinds of dictators, thugs, and tyrants imaginable.  Just to name a few: the president of Egypt who has been “elected” for life, the king of Jordan, and the royal family of Saudi Arabia, whom are actually the biggest supporters of radical Islamic Extremists in the world. Saudi Arabia consistently supports radical extremists with money and supplies. Just keep in mind that 15 of the 19 hijacker on September 11 2001, were Saudi nationals.

Why are we so concerned about democracies in countries that are 5,000 miles anyway, when we have neighboring countries to our south that are run by criminals, drug lords and dictators. If we were so concerned about spreading democracy we would be focusing our efforts on Latin American before the Middle East. Criminals and drug lords off our southern borders are crossing into our heart land, smuggling in drugs that destroy our children and the future of our nation, all the while our concern is on countries 5,000 miles away instead of watching over our own homeland.

How could we allow congress to send over 21 billion dollars in aid to foreign countries that don’t even sympathize with us? Poverty and hunger still exist in the United States and is only getting worse, meanwhile our politicians are handing over our hard earned dollars to foreign thieve, thugs, and dictators.

When the government does decide to help out the situation back home, it is to the benefit of large corporations and banks. We have spent over 2 trillion dollars this year alone not to help the average American family, but instead to bail out large corporations which have been cutting American jobs and sending them overseas. To make matters worse, millions of these dollars have gone to awarding executives and CEO’s while the average American citizen is finding it harder and harder to make ends meet, and unemployment keeps rising!

It seems that our government has mortgaged our future and our children’ future by taking our tax money and giving it to the privileged class. This is the same class that is mostly responsible for the collapse of our countries’ economy.

Our voices must be heard! We must rise up and tell our representatives that they must act on our behalf or they will be sent home on the next election!

It is time for us to reclaim our land and our rights to how our money should be spent! After all the tax money is our hard earned money. It should be spent for the benefit of the American people, not for special interest groups, large corporations and foreign countries.

Thank you for listening. I look forward to reading your comments and ideas.

-Jacques