Government Spending

Have you ever wondered about the United States Government Budget and where your tax dollars are really going? Have you ever actually looked at the US Budget to see? Let me fill you in on what pisses me off about our government. Think about these figures and ask why.

These are the numbers for the projected US Budget for fiscal year 2009:

We are about to spend $2.3 billion to help Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and West Bank/Gaza achieve necessary economic, democratic, security and political stabilization and to advance their overall development.
.........But we can't support our own United States citizens and keep our own economy alive as jobs continue to be cut and unemployment continues to rise.

We are about to spend $2.1 billion for State Department and USAID programs in Africa to address non-HIV/AIDS health, economic growth and democratic governance needs and to help promote stability in Sudan, Liberia, Zimbabwe and Somalia in support of the President's 2005 commitment to double aid to Africa by 2010.
.......But we still have American citizens without health insurance because they can't afford it.

We are about to spend $4.8 billion for the Global HIV/AIDS Initiative, which directly supports the first year of the President's new five-year, $30 billion plan to treat 2.5 million people, prevent 12 million new infections, and care for 12 million afflicted people.
........Again we can't support our own American citizens but we can spend our money throughout the world and treat them.

We are about to spend $1.7 billion to promote democracy around the world, including support for the President's Freedom Agenda. The President has more than doubled funding for democracy, governance, and human rights programs since taking office.
........Our own democratic offices continue to be corrupt with scandals and we can send billions around the world to promote democracy?

We are about to spend $385 million to support the President's Malaria Initiative to reduce malaria-related deaths by 50 percent in 15 target African countries by 2010.
.........Again we have American citizens not getting health care and medical problems treated, however, we send millions to other countries.

We are about to spend $4.8 billion for foreign military financing to the Middle East, Latin America, Europe and Eurasia, including $2.6 billion for Israel.
........Our own military can't get equipment and support that it needs, however, we can finance militaries in other countries?

We are about to spend $2.4 billion to improve responsiveness to humanitarian crises, including food emergencies and disasters, and the needs of refugees.
......But we still have starving Americans and Americans including disabled veterans sleeping on the streets.

We are about to spend $395 million for public diplomacy to engage foreign audiences and win support for U.S. foreign policy goals.
.......We have to pay countries to support us on our views of world problems. We can't support our own American people through several agencies but we can pay foreign countries to say "YES" we back the United States when they are already getting some kind of money from us supporting them.

We are about to spend $1.5 billion for U.S. obligations to 45 international organizations, including the United Nations.
....We need to start obligatin U.S. dollars to U.S. orginizations to help the American people long before supporting foreign countries.

We are about to spend $1.5 billion to pay the U.S. share of assessments for UN peacekeeping missions.
.....Why are we paying for peacekeeping missions when we are sending our own troops in when asked for assistance. We get no financial help to pay for the military from them instead we give them our military, our food, our supplies, our money and then the reward our military and government get is get out of our country and they kill our men in women that are helping them.


How can we still be electing people into offices that decide to send our money overseas. We have had President after President talk about this program to cut taxes, this program to create jobs, this program will help Americans, this program will, this program will, this program will........

"Wake up Federal Government" what the United States needs to do is quit spending, the over taxed hard earned money on the shortage of jobs that the American people pay, in a way that has no direct benefit to the American people.
We pay taxes on the money we work hard for to support our governement in hope that they will spend that money to better the United States and protect us. What we continue to see is our money spent to rebuild and support foreign countries while the United States falls deeper and deeper in debt and the American people continue to lose their jobs and homes. "Wake up Federal Government" save our America before it's too late.

Yes I'm pissed, as an American Citizen and a Disabled Veteran of the United Staes Marine Corps!