Trip to Town

This is an analogy.  Every time we go to town, it seems to cost us a lot of dollars.  Today's trip included a new set of glasses, a tank of gas and a bag of groceries.  In fact, it was almost $600.00.  The good news is that we can afford it. Can America?

Now, we need as a nation to look at what we are doing every time we go to town,  Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria and such.  We continually let ourselves get sucked into every one else's business and play policeman for the world.  Just a slight note to all of you that claimed the only reason we went into Iraq was the Oil, I haven't pumped a cheap gallon of gas in my car because of that war, Have You?    About the Afghanistan war, how many years have they been fighting one side or the other.  Does it really matter if a nation that is still in the 19th Century makes their women wear burkas?   Until and unless Iran does decide to do something stupid like attack Israel do we really need to rattle our swords at them?

I guess the question of the day is isolationism a goal we want to use or not?   I contend that we have no business giving foreign aid to anyone as long as we have to borrow the money.  When is the Arab world going to step up?  Just how many damned Mercedes can they buy before it is one too many.    I think that the Chinese probably think their propping up our National Debt is their form of  Foreign Aid.

The only good news I heard this week is that China is starting to have a backlog  of about 6 months of inventory.  The bad news is that the result of our consumers getting smarter or the fact no one has any more money to spend?   

MUD