What's stopping us from taking care of our veterans and our homeless? We can certainly afford to. We don't, regardless of who is in power. We piss money away on much less worthy things.
And please, Irishman, understand I'm not directing this at you, I genuinely appreciate your sentiment that we should. It's just a general question.
Approximately 23,000 active duty military service people use food stamps. That's a national disgrace. The number of former vets that do is even higher. Our mental health care for them post deployment is minimal, which is why so many end up homeless. What does that say about us as a country? We pay a lot of lip service to supporting our troops in America, but when it comes time to foot the bill we don't reach for our wallet.
Helen I always appreciate your posts and find you to be the most reasonable person that participates in these discussions. As usual, I agree with your points. Probably because you're not just a partisan foot soldier.
Honestly I don't care much about who is president because there will always be people who are happy or unhappy for one reason or the other. IMO the biggest problem we face as a nation is our problem with corporate welfare and the general power large corporations wield, especially in the legislature through lobbyists. I feel like regardless of who you support politically this is something most Americans can agree upon.. Or not, who knows now.
