The problem for America in insisting that it has to be the world’s policeman, and thus get itself involved in wars, insurrections, rebellions, and disputes throughout the world, is that, quite frankly, there is always going to be trouble somewhere, and oftentimes there is going to some degree of trouble, everywhere. This thus signifies that if America simply spent more time, energy, and materials upon exclusively defending its own nation, and that alone, that we would soon discover that billions upon billions of dollars could thus be reallocated and redirected towards that which would be far less destructive, into that which would be far more constructive.
We live in a modern era, in which the efficiency of how we get about from one place to another, is important from so many levels – such as, in consideration of, the pollution so created in our travels, to the overreliance upon non-renewal fuels, to the integrity, maintenance, and reliability of our various transportation needs, as well as the overall efficiencies of the transportation so being utilized, every day. As it has been said, a stitch in time saves nine, of which, the roads and bridges that we utilize day by day, along with the energy so consumed to transport ourselves and our goods, in addition to our electrical power grid, sewage systems, water tables, and so on and so forth, need to be properly maintained, and improved upon, so as to have such be consistently reliable. When then, we act as if we don’t need to expend necessary monies to maintain what we already have, as well as to improve such to make it even better, by devoting appropriate monies so needed for sustainability, in addition to research and development, we have done ourselves and our country, a grand disservice.
In order for America to get done what it needs to get done in regards to its infrastructure advancement, it first needs to make that a real national budget priority and arguably should make it a much higher priority than expending hundreds of billions of dollars upon its military, whose budget is already gargantuan. The bottom line is that there is only so much monies that can be allocated for social services, the military, healthcare, education, infrastructure, and the like. While, no doubt, there are plenty of inefficiencies in how the government currently spends and allocates its money, and therefore plenty of areas of which the government could easily spend less – it just seems sensible to concentrate first upon and thereby to trim back monies so being assigned to the military, because its current budget is so sizeable.
The truth of the matter is, that billions of our dollars are being spent essentially on that which is in so many words, a military killing machine. It would thus behoove this country to spend less on proficiently killing people as well as on annihilating foreign buildings and other material things, and more on creating that which will be beneficial for the people as well as for business enterprises, instead; which is why we need to be more forthright in asserting that domestic infrastructure, needs to be properly prioritized, so that it can be appropriately maintained and upgraded, for our continual benefit.