ROYAL BLUE
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One of the reasons for the spike in gas prices is because fo the unrest in the Middle East. Americans don't want us to put troops on the ground to go and handle this. We're already stretched pretty thin being that we're already in 2 wars. The current unrest in the Middle East is not of our making like the Iraq war was that caused the gas prices to spike up during the Bush administration.
Now as far as why we give money to these other countries all the time, I agree with you. We got enough problems here that we need to take care of. Take care of home first. We're borrowing money from some countries (namely China) to give it to other countries. I'm not saying don't help out other countries at all, but we do way too much of it.
Good post!
Let me also add there are plenty of HBCUs that could use the billions of dollars that we "give" to our enemies in foreign countries. It makes no sense for me to take my hard earned money and give it to "TopDog" when my own family members could use the money as well. It makes no dayum sense. Where is the common sense in our government? I say that we should stop giving money to all foreign countries until we have taken care of our own citizens. You can't help your neighbor if you are in the hole as well. Reduced the dayum taxes to 10% across the board so that our companies will return home and provide jobs to our citizens.
I do not want to get off subject, but do you know what I like about God. He is fair. It does not matter what you earn as a human being. All that God demands is that everyone tithe a tenth of what they earn after all of their bills are paid at the end of the month. God never looked at the rich and said, "you can tithe more because you are rich". Why can't human beings be fair and only mandate a 10% tax across the board? Abraham was rich, Lot was rich, Isaac was rich, his children were rich, king David was rich, but God never demanded that they should tithe more than a tenth because of the fact that they were rich. God was fair to all of His people and everyone had to tithe a fixed amount regardless of your financial status. After all of the bills were paid, and you had something left over at the end of the month, then a tenth of that belongs to God. We should do the same thing in America. There should be a set tax across the board for all citizens because that is fair to all.