Where do you spend $825 billion? Part Two
Here is where the $825 Billion is going!
j) $3 billion to public health departments for additional immunizations.
I don’t object to this unless those immunizations are forced. People should have the right to say “no”.
k) $1 billion in additional funding to pay heating bills of low-income Americans.
How about making the oil companies with those obscene profits pay for this one.
l) $1 billion for the 2010 census.
I guess if we have a billion people living here that isn’t too much to pay to know how many Americans there are.
m) $100 million for National Science Foundation scholarships.
Should be more. We NEED scientists in this country. I’m sick of everyone acting like it’s a sin to use your brain.
n) $200 million for nutrition programs.
I’m ok with this as long as it doesn’t go to support corporate farms that are slowly but surely killing us all. Give more money to the small farmers working to preserve our natural heritage with organic, heirloom crops instead of genetically modified crops that some corrupt bureaucrat has patented to get rich while the world starves.
o) $200 million to provide incentives to teachers to raise test scores.
Even better, we spend that money supporting teachers who are trying to teach our kids how to learn and think for themselves , instead of just memorizing the answers to a bunch of out-dated tests.
p) $2 billion in additional funds for low-income child care.
This one I have no complaints with, people who have to work two or more jobs to pay the bills need all the help they can get. No one wants to leave their child with someone they can’t trust to take care of them properly.
q) $900 million in additional funds to prepare for the pandemic flu.
If we spent that money on GOOD health care and proper nutrition, we wouldn’t need to worry quite so much about pandemics, flu or otherwise.
I know the real question is: Where is all this money going to come from?
You know the politicians are counting on us, the taxpayers, to clean up yet another of THEIR messes. Part of me acknowledges that we put those people in their positions, so we do bear some responsibility for fixing the messes they made after we elected them, But a bigger part of me says, “Bullshit, they’ve been lying to us, stealing from us, and otherwise screwing us all over for years. All the while telling us that everything was going to be all right.”
With that being said, here’s who I think should pay:
- The drug companies paying CEOs millions of dollars a year to poison us with their toxic prescriptions should have to pay for our Universal Health Care
- The auto industry that killed the electric car ten years ago (yes, GM, I’m talking about you and the EV1) should have to sacrifice their fat CEO comp packages to pay for our country’s switch to electric vehicles.
- Overpaid studio execs in Hollywood can pay for that damn digital upgrade if it’s so necessary. How many cars can one person drive, and how many houses can one person live in, anyway?
Greed is not good, and until society as a whole stops rewarding those greedy individuals lining their own pockets at the expense of the rest of us, the world is never going heal.
We won’t know peace until we don’t know greed.
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