This article is about the political wrangling over the debt ceiling, but the more relevant questions is how this nation has gotten itself so deeply in debt.  The last paragraph speaking about how we need to build up our weapons supply in order to furnish Taiwan weapons against the possibility of an attack by China exhibits this country's attitude of dealing with the rest of the world, mainly by military superiority.  Our President and Congress just approved another $90 billion of aid to Ukraine for military and humanitarian aid without simultaneously increasing the debt limit.  Now there is talk about arming Taiwan on top of this, already on top of massive defensive spending already in the budget.  If negotiations take place there is talk of cutting social security, medicare and social programs to aid the old and disenfranchised citizenry of this country.  Our hegemony to inflict our vision of world order upon the rest of the world rings hollow when we find our selves in a quagmire of debt and punishing our own people to fund this agenda.   These are the major underlying issues, but they seem to be ignored under the assumptions that any actions we undertake in the world are so righteous.

This article is about the political wrangling over the debt ceiling, but the more relevant questions is how this nation has gotten itself so deeply in debt.  The last paragraph speaking about how we need to build up our weapons supply in order to furnish Taiwan weapons against the possibility of an attack by China exhibits this country's attitude of dealing with the rest of the world, mainly by military superiority.  Our President and Congress just approved another $90 billion of aid to Ukraine for military and humanitarian aid without simultaneously increasing the debt limit.  Now there is talk about arming Taiwan on top of this, already on top of massive defensive spending already in the budget.  If negotiations take place there is talk of cutting social security, medicare and social programs to aid the old and disenfranchised citizenry of this country.  Our hegemony to inflict our vision of world order upon the rest of the world rings hollow when we find our selves in a quagmire of debt and punishing our own people to fund this agenda.   These are the major underlying issues, but they seem to be ignored under the assumptions that any actions we undertake in the world are so righteous.

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