Posted by: Sal Atticum
« on: April 20, 2010, 08:52:16 PM »I wish Obama would end the war(s), that is, that he or congress or both would decide that enough is enough and that other countries need to be able to stand for themselves. I go back and forth on how I feel about this depending on the amount of good I perceive is coming to Iraq and Afghanistan (building schools, helping women's rights, promoting democratic election of leaders, all that), but there does come a time when we need to say "look, we've got our own problems, and we can't babysit you forever" and put our money to use at home. I had a perhaps less-balanced opinion of the war in Iraq when it was first started due to the lack of WMDs according to people who were in charge of looking for those things and was definitively against it. Money that is being used for military spending could be used to support any number of beneficial programs (whether medical research, technology grants, subsidized healthcare for children, teacher training, infrastructure, you name it) without our status as a world military leader or the safety of our soldiers (sailors, marines, or airmen [airpeople]) being compromised.
But I digress. I see where you are coming from. I wish I could do more to help people out, least of which being able to build Campus Dakota into an organization that could actually hire people and contribute to the physical economy, because that would be a bottom-up approach that needs nobody at the top to decide on another stimulus bill.
I wish I could take credit for coming up with congresscritter, but sadly I cannot.
But I digress. I see where you are coming from. I wish I could do more to help people out, least of which being able to build Campus Dakota into an organization that could actually hire people and contribute to the physical economy, because that would be a bottom-up approach that needs nobody at the top to decide on another stimulus bill.
I wish I could take credit for coming up with congresscritter, but sadly I cannot.