Time to understand cause and effect

The ignorance of the U.S. taxpayer as applicable to the effects of U.S. government spending is primarily the neglect or fault of the news media and our so-called school or education system. The terrorist actions against U.S. people the last three to four years is well-deserved and will probably continue until such time as the U.S. voter understands the real cause and effect as related to government use of taxpayer money and credit.

It is suggested that some interested newspaper reporter/writer review the congressional records as published along with foreign policy statements and actions to verify and provide the reader with accounting of money contributed these last 54 years to support a group of people and their new nation. This taxpayer contribution has provided the means such that Palestinian and other Arabian people have/are being treated in the same manners as our ancestors and U.S. government treated the American Indians.

The present federal government has allocated approximately $10 billion in money and military equipment in direct aid to Egypt, Israel and other nations that help to implement U.S. foreign policy. The U.S. voter failed to understand the cause of the $6 to $25 increase in price of crude oil during the Nixon administration.

The Oklahoma City bombing was the result of one person’s attempt to expose harmful government spending that news media failed to provide. Distribution of electrical power and water systems along with a blow up of other public facilities can be expected if the U.S. voter fails to take action through our elected representatives. They must stop all manner of support to Israel, and the harm done to Palestinian and Arab people. Action to regain these approximate 5 trillion U.S. dollars for the U.S. taxpayer is also suggested.

Granite Falls

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