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A Fresh Wave of Irresponsible Congressional Spending to Hit Our Pockets
OK, a yearly tsunami. Pete Hegesworthless [spelling I don’t care] is everything bad about American journalism — though he isn’t one. But he is a Fox News host, and that’s all journalism seems good for on the right. The left is a little better, though — or the absence of the left as most of it moved to the center white.
If we had honest journalism in America, you would know that Congress approved a $1.99 trillion defense allocation last year. According to the USAspending website, you can view that today. But no one can even Google this government website.
I repeat this number because it appears I’m one of the few who are against mass brainwashing. And because I’m a taxpayer. I want the money to spend on my family and our needs, not on occupying the world and turning cities overseas into rubble with extremely expensive — and profitable — American munitions. America First? Get ready for even more America — the last spending from both sides of the aisle. But Congress locks the money into war spending. It’s not that it spends it all but pledges to.
There, drunk and greedy politicians in Congress may go in with clean hands and high hopes — or a tiny percentage do — but quickly guzzle the laced…