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Sunday, April 10, 2011

Cartoon Time.

4 comments:

VV said...

Ain't that the truth! I wish "we the people" had more direct control over the spending. I know we send billions and billions of dollars in foreign aid to other countries and I realize the political necessity of doing so, but we shouldn't be giving away money we have to borrow to get and pay interest on in the first place.

CyberKitten said...

I see that your Defence spending has increased by 81% since 2001 and is now 5 times that of the next big spender - China.

I wonder if that's the crux of your countries economic problems? [muses]

VV said...

I think we spend 40% on Medicare, Medicaid, and welfare. I could be wrong, but some pie chart I looked at recently show a huge chunk of our money going toward that. I think we need to revamp the whole system and think outside the box for new solutions to old problems.

CyberKitten said...

V V said: I could be wrong, but some pie chart I looked at recently show a huge chunk of our money going toward that.

we spend quite a bit of our GDP on Health too - it seems to be the way of things in developed countries.

V V said: I think we need to revamp the whole system and think outside the box for new solutions to old problems.

We certainty can't go on for much longer with a "business as usual" attitude that's for sure!