Damn password - now I have to retype this whole response.
Having a 7 trillion dollar debt is absurd. The US government is a HUGE business. How does it operates in the "red" decade after decade? Beats the hell out of me. I vote for new congressman because the old ones don't fix that problem. What does the US do? We keep giving out millions of dollars to other countries who will most likely never pay any of the money back. Being a tax payer that bothers me. I know we just gave Africa, or a specific African country x millions of dollars for AIDS relief. Not sure witch one but it was on CNN.
The US has a way to diverse economic, technical (Microsoft), and natural resourse base to ever "die" as a world power.
The US does not desire world domination, most (I only have sufficient knowledge of WWII and black hawk downs to believe this) of our military actions are to protect freedom of innocent people. We don't senselessly cause mass death (ok I know I'm gona catch major hell for that statement), yea we atomized Japan but it ended the war, and more deaths, on that front. The point is senseless death. (ohh wait we have 1 mil active JWs living here).
I also don't like the fact that the US has to "police" the world. BUT consider the alternitives. Do we do more harm than good? I DON'T think so. Just my humble opinion.
Ohh MY - I just re-read this and edited that the US DOES NOT cause more harm than good.....AKK I messed up!
Edited by - TTBoy on 22 September 2002 1:54:40