Governments overspending, creating too much debt
The dictionary defines "consume" as a means to destroy, spend wastefully, devour, and absorb the attention of others. I only bring this word up because our country (we, the people) is being consumed by another word, GREED.
Let's start out with student loans, $1.2 trillion to date. Our universities are robbing our college students of billions of dollars. Big universities make millions on sporting events and pay professors enormous incomes to educate our college students to take God out of their vocabulary. (Read "God Less America" by Todd Starnes.)
President Obama's family 2015 Christmas trip cost taxpayers $470,000 per day or over $8 million. Yet, our country is over $19 trillon in debt. Whatever happened to Camp David?
Candidates, except for Donald Trump, are spending billions trying to get you, the people, to vote for them and we have almost a year to go. Just imagine if the large corporations who are donating this money put billons toward creating jobs for the unemployed, which would increase tax revenue.
Illegal immigration cost taxpayers over $133 billion per year. Legal immigration, at a cost of nearly $900 billion per year, provides cash, food, housing, medical, and other services to millions of low-income Americans.
Our government contributes over $37 billion for foreign aid and military assistance to countries that have been on the take for years and are further behind the eight ball and most of them hate us.
Our government has budgeted $4 trillion per year for climate change when our interest per year on current debt reaches over a trillion dollars per year. I remember back in the 1950s and '60s a trillion was just unheard of. Now, it is like pocket change to our elected officials in Washington.
The problem trickles on down to our states, counties and cities. A train wreck waiting to happen.
Sam Black
Palmetto
This story was originally published January 2, 2016 at 12:00 AM with the headline "Governments overspending, creating too much debt ."