Greetings and Felicitations,

It's a simple questions. If the economy keeps crashing what do you think are the most important programs to keep running, in what priority and why?

For example, I think that programs which keep people fed are more important than keeping troops in other countries.



Sincerely Yours,
C. David Neely

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Hmm.

Clearly the welfare of one's own people has to take priority for a nation that is struggling.

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Another vote for taking care of Americans before taking care of other countries.

Just like the rich philanthropist who must end his philanthropist ways to insure his own survival, we must stop giving away billions every year to a multitude of foreign countries that are on our "dole". We should also close nearly every one of the 700 bases we have on foreign soil and bring that money home. Iraq needs to be cut loose, and Afghanistan as well. Let the gas corps. find another place to put their pipeline from the Caspian sea, or let them hire mercenaries to do their dirty work. Yeah sure, Blackwater stocks will fall, but I see that as a good thing. We definitely need to get our own house in order before we go off trying to change the World.

Cowards, you want to cut and run because of a little Depression? You're going to let minor details like not having any money divert America from its sacred duty to spread Freedom and Democracy?

What next? Are you going to suggest that we should have used the 3 Trillion we sent to Iraq to repair our own crumbling infrastructure? to educate our children, to save us all from eating dog food for the next 20 years?

Look at Muhammad with his purple thumb. He's just voted for the first time in his life, and the candidate he supports wants to kill all Americans by next year, disfigure all women just in case their Burqas slip one day, and after that go on Jihad to kill everyone but Wahabis in the entire world. Isn't his ability to do his small part to slaughter humanity and turn the world back to the 7thc more important than our piddling worries about our children rooting through dumpsters, or our daughters selling themselves for roasted rat?

Are we going to abandon our Brave Iraqi Allies to the tender mercies of...uh...our Other Brave Iraqi Allies just because of our minor concerns about how we're going to live without a house and get enough to eat without a job?

What has become of America?

Stop ALL foreign aid, dismantle the Fed, and return to a true Constitutional republic rather than a Nanny State.

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ahoy!

Greetings, oh courteous CDavidNeely,

imma glad to see you have your friendly openin' up and runnin' again.

i think, as things go sour and the gold gets scarce, the one thing the United States 'o America has to keep puttin' monies into is education.

makin' it a priority.

keepin' folks in school, helpin' them get into college.

if other things must be cut...well then, so be it.

education be sacred (though i'd like to see it become more efficient).

aye.

*salutes*

Present for you: ExpectMore.gov: Not Performing Programs

Thats a link to all ineffective programs and programs that have not been able to develop acceptable performance goals.

This is where the cuts need to start.

I agree with RetroFits comments as well, with the exception of "Iraq needs to be cut loose as well as Afghanistan." I don't agree with the war in Iraq AT ALL, I think we went there only for Bush's own personal vendetta on behalf of his father. However, once we stepped on their soil we made ourselves responsible for the damage and destruction we caused. We destabilized that country and we shouldn't screw them over by leaving before they can hold their own. We have a responsibility to them thanks to Bush's ego. I think we need to end both wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as quickly as possible without leaving them open to become terrorist states because that will turn around and bite us in the ass in the future.

thats a very interesting site terri thx.

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Constitutionally mandated spending, same as always.

Now if we dropped all the rest we could solve this mess overnight.

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It is very dumb to cut spending in uncertain economic times. That's why Bush is so stupid to let it come to this: on the one had we cannot afford to cut spending because it will ruin the economy, on the other hand we cannot afford to keep running deficits like this. The budget should have been balanced then we would have had more reserves and it would have been a lot easier to get through this crisis.

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Should-a, would-a, could-a....Fact is were here and what we should of done is now irrelevant. We really have no choice but to cut spending. I think a devaluation of the dollar, probably at the rate of about 10 to 1 is coming...This will appear to be our painful Saviour, but it will just start up the fiat cycle all over. Let it retract fully, kill the fed, then start fresh with a commodity backed (any commodity or multiple) currency. There won't be another country on the planet that will be able to stand up next to our Dollar if this was done. But we truly must end the federal reserve charter and get out from under the thumb of the international banking community if the middle class is to survive.

Is not this what the Iraqi Surrender Group wanted to do? Or how about the DNC who wanted every soldier in Iraq home by end of next year? Or how about that deficit? Alright under a DNC but bad under a GOP leadership? This post was too hilarious.

Personally, need to transfor the saving rate in this country back to respectable levels and to fully develop the "green industry" with good old fashioned American inginuity.

As for the budget, no program should be safe except the military, but with restrictions.

Greetings and Felicitations,

The clamoring has already started over the impact of the economic crisis on developing countries. They are already starting to insist that the richer countries honor their commitments no matter what condition their economies are.

Crisis may set back poorest: World Bank panel

Sincerely Yours,
C. David Neely

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