I love to ask the question why. Somebody will tell me somthing and I will ask why. I am constantly questioning the things I am told because I refuse to just believe. I want to know why something is before I take an opinion on it. Lately, I have been asking why a lot about our goverment's budget.
The United States is 8.7 trillion dollars in debt and our nation contines to spend more money taking our country even further into dept. My question is why? Shouldn't they be working towards paying it off slowly but surely, so that later generations don't have to deal with the consequences? But that's not the plan the government seems to have. Instead in 2006 the government spent 29 billion dollars on pork barrel projects (projects that are pointless and a waste of money). Examples of these projects would be the 1.3 million dollars to Alaska for berry research or the 13.5 million to Ireland to help finance the world toliet summit. The main reason they spend this money is because the incument congress men and women want to be able to tell there state at the next re-election that they got them all this money.
Again my question is why. If they are going to spend that much money shouldn't it be on things that truly matter, like education. Our schools are constantly facing budget cuts, which hurts the students. Adults are always calling us the future generaion, predicting we will make big changes, and yet they are hurting us by not giving schools enough money. If we don't get a good education, becuase programs were dropped and classes were croweded, then how are we going to be able to make a difference in the world? So many things could be changed if the government spent all this money on things that truly mattered. Our schools could be better funded, the nation could pay off a chunk of the national debt, they could put more money into social security so that people didn't have to wait until they are 70 to retire, and so much more.
Yet our government continues to spend money on things that don't matter and will never affect the average American. All I can do is sit back, watch our national depbt grow higher and higher, and ask the question why.