Thanks, Intet-at-tabe :tiphat:
You hit the nail on the head about spending ... seems the US is more than willing to "help" foreign entities while our own citizens are starving and have no place to live. We are living at a time where our income level buys us less - We used to get 3 bags of groceries for $50 - now we get one bag ... our price of gasoline is rising beyond belief while the oil companies are raking in record profits (corporate greed) and their executives are being paid millions of dollars, for what purpose?
The most important person in our nation is the President - nobody but nobody should ever be allowed to earn more money than what he or she is paid, which is currently around $400k. Any overage to that amount would be a tax owed - we would be able to balance the nations budget and feed all our hungry, and provide decent medical care for everybody.
I was on a choir tour in Austria years ago - our guide was asked about the job market there and how they dealt with unemployment. He replied (this was in 1992, btw so situations may have changed) that the unemployment was less than 1% - Professional people (doctors, lawyers etc) were only allowed to make $35k per year, medical care was provided to every citizen by the state, and if the number of jobless people rose, they instantly created new jobs for these people.
I don't know if this is how things are in other foreign countries, but if true, the US could take a lesson here and try to amend its ways and truly live up to its own standards by our own phrase "Where all men are created equal!"
You hit the nail on the head about spending ... seems the US is more than willing to "help" foreign entities while our own citizens are starving and have no place to live. We are living at a time where our income level buys us less - We used to get 3 bags of groceries for $50 - now we get one bag ... our price of gasoline is rising beyond belief while the oil companies are raking in record profits (corporate greed) and their executives are being paid millions of dollars, for what purpose?
The most important person in our nation is the President - nobody but nobody should ever be allowed to earn more money than what he or she is paid, which is currently around $400k. Any overage to that amount would be a tax owed - we would be able to balance the nations budget and feed all our hungry, and provide decent medical care for everybody.
I was on a choir tour in Austria years ago - our guide was asked about the job market there and how they dealt with unemployment. He replied (this was in 1992, btw so situations may have changed) that the unemployment was less than 1% - Professional people (doctors, lawyers etc) were only allowed to make $35k per year, medical care was provided to every citizen by the state, and if the number of jobless people rose, they instantly created new jobs for these people.
I don't know if this is how things are in other foreign countries, but if true, the US could take a lesson here and try to amend its ways and truly live up to its own standards by our own phrase "Where all men are created equal!"