We can't do this anymore

I just heard on NPR this morning how Senators John Kerry and Richard Lugar want to give 7.5 billion dollars to Pakistan, to build them up for security in the area.

First, let me say, I respect Senator Kerry and have no reason not to respect Senator Lugar.

That said, I think it has to be pointed out that the time has long since come and gone when the United States can throw money at problems, at other countries or whatever, in an effort to improve the situations in the world.

We're broke, folks.

We are busted.

We don't have any money.

We're borrowing boodles just to function now. And that's just to cover our own inner workings.

We're in debt. Big time.

We have to stop operating on the now old notion that we have money--plenty of money--to fix things this way.

We can't do it. Not any longer.

We can't afford all the banks that are going broke right now. We can't afford our own problems, let alone fixing those of countries 'round the world.

It's over.

Let's recognize our reality and operate from there instead of fooling ourselves into thinking it's still 1962.

It ain't.

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