The Wasting of Hard Earned Money

During the War on Terror in the Middle East the United States has spent billions of dollars to help and supply Iraq with weapons and reinforcements. You would think that all of this money that we have spent to help has gone to good use right? Wrong! According to FOX News, the United States spent almost half a billion dollars on planes to give to the Iraqi Air Forces that were never used. All of these planes are now sitting in a “junk yard” and they are not being used at all. This is a major problem that needs to be resolved so we never waste money like this again.

            This is just another thing that the American Government has wasted money on in the past decade with our tax dollars. The government wastes millions or even billions of dollars to pay for things that we don’t even get to see or use. A few examples of such waste would be Obama’s trips around the world. According to zerohedge.com, the trip for Obama to go to Africa a few months back cost the American tax payers almost 100 million dollars! Also, we have left over 7 billion dollars’ worth of military equipment in Afghanistan alone. This is outrageous, especially when the U.S is in so much debt anyway. We could use that 7.1 billion dollars toward our debt or give it back to the people in some way shape or form. The other sad thing is, is that those two situations of money waste is just the beginning. I bet the United States wasted close to 100 billion dollars a year on things we don’t even need. If we just saved that money over a ten year period or even longer it would help alleviate the pressure on our debt and help our economy.

            The solution to this problem is quite simple (for normal people at least). We either cut all of this unneeded spending or just make the governments, that we gave money to or supplies to, pay it all back. Now I know that the money for the trips are gone forever but we need to get back as much money as possible. With all of the help that we have given Iraq and Afghanistan it would be common courtesy to pay us back the money that we gave to them anyway. American soldiers fought and died for these countries and we deserve some compensation for that.

            People wonder why our economy is so bad right now. First, it’s because none of our politicians can agree on anything and the second reason is because we are spending too much money of things that we just simply do not need. We may not be able to fix the differences between the two sides of Congress but we can all agree that we need to cut back on our spending or else we will be in another depression that could be worse than the first.