By Aaron Cantor ——Bio and Archives--February 28, 2010
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Washington (AFP) – President Barack Obama has the votes in the House of Representatives to force his flagship reform of US healthcare through without Republican support, House speaker Nancy Pelosi said Sunday.
“We are here to do a job for the American people – to get them results that gives them not only health security, but economic security, because the health issue is an economic issue for America’s families” she said.Actually what she really meant was we are here to do a job ON the American people. While sitting here at my desk trying to get a handle on how many zeroes there are in the National debt and the Deficit (a feat which would cross a Philadelphia Lawyer’s eyes), a very simple solution popped into my head. We send billions of dollars in foreign aid overseas every year, but are the people to whom we give that aid grateful? No they are not, because in most cases it never gets to the people, it goes into the pockets of corrupt leaders. First question. What did these countries do for all the years before there was such a thing as foreign aid, or such a country as the United States of America to give them a handout? Second question. Why should we continue sending all this money (which we don’t have) off shore when we can’t even pay our own bills? Solution:
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<em>Las Vegas based Aaron is retired from the U.S. Military. His favourite weapons now are: a spatula, a 1 iron, or a corkscrew. </a>