It turns out our nation's "Super Committee" recently gave up and walked away; so I guess no one can solve our national debt problem of more than $15 trillion. Gee fellas, how about looking at the more than $23 billion in annual foreign aid and the more than $6 billion in military aid of which Pakistan received approximately $11.5 in direct military aid since 9/11/2001 - part of which conceivably could have been used to house Osama bin Laden - the very man we wanted to bring to justice.
And then there is our war expense in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan of nearly $2.7 trillion which the Brown University study concludes that, even if we pull our troops out now, it will cost this nation more than $1-trillion in medical, psychological and related military issues. And what about all those military bases all over the world; is this necessary? How much is it costing this nation to put in the anti-ballistic shield along the Mediterranean Sea to protect Europe? Why can't other nations pay for our help?
It was not all that long ago that Soviet Russia pulled out of Afghanistan because that war led them on a path to bankruptcy. It is obvious we are a nation of busy-bodies and feel compelled to insert ourselves into the middle of other peoples' problems; however, at what point in our national debt do we determine to mind our own business?