22AcaciaAve
Well-Known Member
I get where people would have a problem with spending tax payer money on causes that don't seem to provide any benefit to citizens in the US. But I've heard the argument before about spending all of this money when we have people starving here in the US. It was used to kill the last several missions of the Apollo program back in the early 70's. We can provide safety nets within reason, but there will always be winners and losers in life. Unless you want to go full socialist and everyone works for the government for the same amount of money, you will always have those who strive to get ahead, those who are happy maintaining a certain comfort level, and those who simply will be left behind.
I look at Ukraine spending as being a National Security investment. It's not an emergency, but the money and weapons we are providing to Ukraine are helping to degrade the Russian military. I'm a Reagan conservative and I'm pretty sure he would be 100% in agreement with that. Russia is our mortal enemy and cannot be trusted. Just yesterday we learned that they may be working on putting a nuclear weapon capable of destroying our satellites into orbit. The more Russian soldiers who die, the more weapons they lose, and the more money we force them to spend trying to take Ukraine......that's a good investment in my book.
It is virtually impossible to be an isolationist nation in today's world. Everyone of our adversaries sponsors proxies from all out wars to terrorist operations. Pushing back on Russia now may save us in the future. Reagan said in his farewell speech that he hoped that Gorbachev represented a new outlook from the Soviet Union, but that the "Gulag was still the Gulag." He warned we must still be skeptical of their intentions. Unfortunately, his hope did not come to fruition. Putin is every bit the old KGB snake that Nikita Kruschev was.
So I'm ok with authorizing more MILITARY aid to Ukraine. But there needs to be more scrutinization of just how this aid is being spent. The Biden administration apparently has not been very diligent in making sure that money is going to where we want it to go. That has to end.
I look at Ukraine spending as being a National Security investment. It's not an emergency, but the money and weapons we are providing to Ukraine are helping to degrade the Russian military. I'm a Reagan conservative and I'm pretty sure he would be 100% in agreement with that. Russia is our mortal enemy and cannot be trusted. Just yesterday we learned that they may be working on putting a nuclear weapon capable of destroying our satellites into orbit. The more Russian soldiers who die, the more weapons they lose, and the more money we force them to spend trying to take Ukraine......that's a good investment in my book.
It is virtually impossible to be an isolationist nation in today's world. Everyone of our adversaries sponsors proxies from all out wars to terrorist operations. Pushing back on Russia now may save us in the future. Reagan said in his farewell speech that he hoped that Gorbachev represented a new outlook from the Soviet Union, but that the "Gulag was still the Gulag." He warned we must still be skeptical of their intentions. Unfortunately, his hope did not come to fruition. Putin is every bit the old KGB snake that Nikita Kruschev was.
So I'm ok with authorizing more MILITARY aid to Ukraine. But there needs to be more scrutinization of just how this aid is being spent. The Biden administration apparently has not been very diligent in making sure that money is going to where we want it to go. That has to end.
