Yet. we are failing to adequately safeguard the American people because of political convenience and lust for cuts in domestic spending. Look. for instance. at the shortfalls in veterans funding. with the administration trying to backfill by raising copayments and fees for veterans health care services. not to mention the submission of a supplemental budget amendment last year to avoid emergency cuts in VA medical care and services. Witness the gaping holes in our border security. marked by federal agents releasing or not even bothering to pursue illegal aliens because of lack of detention space and personnel. We can only hope and pray that those determined folks who daily circumvent our border security are not alQaida operatives. Congested roads. overcrowded schools. deteriorating rail and transit systems. corroding and structurally deficient bridges. functionally obsolete locks and dams. overflowing sewers and wastewater mismanagement. energy bottlenecks causing higher prices and electricity failures and power outagesthese are the festering signs of a nations infrastructure being slowly starved. Meanwhile. our once strong and proud manufacturing sector is buckling from intense foreign competition by companies heavily subsidized by their governments. Health care and education expenses are both rising to prohibitive levels for families and their employers. and the United States of America is becoming more and more addicted to foreign capital and immigrant labor to power our economy. For years we have been determinedly squeezing the wrong pieces of the federal budget in order to fund other pieces. and believe me the chickens are coming home to roost. This week. the Congress will vote to raise the debt ceiling to $9 trillionthe fourth nasty increase in 5 years.
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