The Money Tree
John H. Adler
July 03, 2007
Whenever a State project that would benefit the people is curtailed or rejected for lack of money, I wonder.
Whenever the U.S. Congress rejects laws which would aid the people of our country for lack of funds, I wonder.
Where do the billions of dollars come from that finance the catastrophic Iraqi war?
Where does Congress find the funds to indulge in “pork barrel” projects?
Where does the private sector of our country find the “discretionary funds” to finance a drawn out political campaign, costing many millions of dollars, and is more annoying than educational for the public? Although they have no legal obligations to finance public projects what about the moral duty of giving something back?
How is it that government, as well as the private sector, find money for everything but what is truly important and beneficial to the American people?
Why is it that supposedly intelligent people still support the sinking of lives and money into an immoral war in the Middle East that has cost Americans so much in the loss of young American lives and has made widows and orphans out of too many of our people?
Why is it that an incompetent, morally corrupt and stubborn government is able to maintain power for almost seven years without its own party rebelling? Is party loyalty more important than elected officials’ duty to the people they promised to serve?
When candidates running for the office of our next president promise to institute or ameliorate badly needed, beneficial programs, we question them: where is the money going to come from?
THE MONEY TREE.
The United States of America seems to find money for everything its government wants to do. Maybe we will be able to elect a president who can and will do what he or she promised during the campaign. It appears that money should be no object.
Whenever the U.S. Congress rejects laws which would aid the people of our country for lack of funds, I wonder.
Where do the billions of dollars come from that finance the catastrophic Iraqi war?
Where does Congress find the funds to indulge in “pork barrel” projects?
Where does the private sector of our country find the “discretionary funds” to finance a drawn out political campaign, costing many millions of dollars, and is more annoying than educational for the public? Although they have no legal obligations to finance public projects what about the moral duty of giving something back?
How is it that government, as well as the private sector, find money for everything but what is truly important and beneficial to the American people?
Why is it that supposedly intelligent people still support the sinking of lives and money into an immoral war in the Middle East that has cost Americans so much in the loss of young American lives and has made widows and orphans out of too many of our people?
Why is it that an incompetent, morally corrupt and stubborn government is able to maintain power for almost seven years without its own party rebelling? Is party loyalty more important than elected officials’ duty to the people they promised to serve?
When candidates running for the office of our next president promise to institute or ameliorate badly needed, beneficial programs, we question them: where is the money going to come from?
THE MONEY TREE.
The United States of America seems to find money for everything its government wants to do. Maybe we will be able to elect a president who can and will do what he or she promised during the campaign. It appears that money should be no object.
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