The Defense Budget is NOT the NEW WPA

GET THE FACTS BEHIND THE NEWS Many members of the House of Representatives seem to be very confused. They think that the defense budget is the new WPA. As you probably know The WPA was FDR’s employment program during the “Great Depression”.

WPA was the largest New Deal agency, employing millions of people and constructing all types of different projects. It effected almost every locality in the United States, especially rural and western mountain populations.

However most of the people in the US realize that the Defense Budget is to provide the armed services with the equipment, personnel, and intelligence to carry out their missions to protect our country.

The recent action of the House in providing moey for large scale military equipment that the military experts say we do not need is clearly not in the public interest. The money spent on not needed items hinders our military. It could better be spent on needed equipment, or in other parts of gov’, or not spent at all (we have a large deficit. Granted that supplier companies are spread across the country partially to gain political support. If these industries or area’s need help the help should come from other legislative or private efforts not at the expense of the Defense Budget.
This is another glaring example that is happening too often. Legislation by the Congress is not in the best interests of the people. This is a problem that goes back along way. James Madison in essay 10 of the Federalist wrote aboutthe evils of ‘FACTION”. “By a faction, I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or a minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adversed to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community”. What to do? More to come