Big Government and its Growth

In 2009 the defense budget and Social Security combines for $1 trillion 318 billion or about 70% of all taxes collected.  In a book written by Joseph Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes about the hidden costs of our current war titled; The Three Trillion Dollar War, they concluded that it costs the United States about $1 million per year per soldier to send to Iraq or Afghanistan.  Now, I believe in a strong defense and in what we were sent to do, however, I need to point out the costs and show how they relate to bigger and bigger government.  Everyone must concede, war costs in many ways whether we like it or not.

Governments grow when war occurs.  More soldiers, more equipment, more facilities, more money to make it happen all funded by the American people and orchestrated by the US government.  So what you say, our nation learned early on that in order to grow the government, which means more power, wars were needed, but not necessarily military wars?

Social wars and political wars could do the same thing!  The War on Poverty, War on Crime, War on Drugs, War on Terror, War on Afghanistan, War on Iraq and now the War on Libya.  All these wars still have casualties and require the government to come to the rescue.  I submit that these wars are created on purpose to cause greater governmental control and less freedoms!  Further, the Presidents appoint Czar's to each of these wars, who answer to him alone.  I am telling you that the power pulling the strings does not want these wars to end!?   Who is this power?  Do you know?

WOW, Ernie you have gone off the deep end.  No,  what is happening is setting up the fall of our nation to global economy.  We are losing our identity as a free capitalistic nation and moving towards socialism.  It is happening as we speak with national health care.  Think people, why would we kill babies in the womb?  For awhile now the mothers have been experiencing medical issues as a result but the government refuses to acknowledge them.  Who funds abortion clinics?

Wilfred J Hahn, a global economist writes; that real essence behind global financial trends are spiritual issues and the affections of the human heart...


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