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letter to ajc
Aug. 11th, 2009 09:48 pmI want to start this letter off with a simple question: if you you had 75 dollars to your name and your kid was sick at the same time a kid in Iraq was sick, which would you spend that 75 dollars on to send to a doctor?
I am not here to argue rather or not we should spend the money. The fact is we ARE spending it now. We are taking care of people all over the world. We are doing this before we take care of our own family. Billions of dollars are going over seas to build hospitals, schools, infrastructure and the very things that we need right here in our own back yard. We are building the economies of strangers while our family is out on the streets begging for enough money to get a meal.
We are Americans, one and all. We are a family. Republican, democrat, black, white or any ethnicity. We are all one family. We are AMERICANS. What does a family do, if not take care of their own, stand up for their own before any others?
This is not a debate of rather or not we will spend this money on social programs. This is simply a debate of rather or not we will take care of our own before we go around the world taking care of those of no relation to us.
Americans: you and I, stand up for our family. Demand that we take care of our family and get our house in order before we go prop up the tired, the sick and the poor of the rest of the world.
I am not here to argue rather or not we should spend the money. The fact is we ARE spending it now. We are taking care of people all over the world. We are doing this before we take care of our own family. Billions of dollars are going over seas to build hospitals, schools, infrastructure and the very things that we need right here in our own back yard. We are building the economies of strangers while our family is out on the streets begging for enough money to get a meal.
We are Americans, one and all. We are a family. Republican, democrat, black, white or any ethnicity. We are all one family. We are AMERICANS. What does a family do, if not take care of their own, stand up for their own before any others?
This is not a debate of rather or not we will spend this money on social programs. This is simply a debate of rather or not we will take care of our own before we go around the world taking care of those of no relation to us.
Americans: you and I, stand up for our family. Demand that we take care of our family and get our house in order before we go prop up the tired, the sick and the poor of the rest of the world.
