One half of the world's people live on less than two dollars a day. This should concern our national security policy as well as our conscience.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We have three billion people, half the world's population today, living on less than two dollars a day.
Now some are saying maybe $1.6 trillion in is not enough maybe we should look at $2 trillion.
It's very difficult when you have $1.50 per day to spend on food and drink, but for people who live this reality, that money also has to cover medical expenses and education, fuel and shelter - sometimes for an entire family.
To ask a country with 750 million people living on less than a dollar a day to optimize their development for the environment as opposed to getting food in the mouths of these people and giving them a decent lifestyle, that's just a little bit too much to ask.
Today, the US spends less on defense as a percentage of our economy than we did at any time since he Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. For the world's only superpower, that is an invitation to very serious trouble.
The high prices also highlight the fact that the U.S. is too heavily dependent on fossil fuels that we import from unstable parts of the world. To protect our national security, we must become more energy secure.
You could be worth $2 billion today and a half a billion tomorrow. It doesn't take much for this to disappear overnight.
We are spending $1 billion a week in Iraq.
I've always considered the government taking one out of every two dollars I earn absolute tyranny.
Over half a billion dollars a day is being spent by FEMA.