Can a politician count to a billion?

President Obama just signed a $680 billion defense bill into law. The claim is that the bill will save us money on the wars.

Do you realize how much money that is? That's more than $2,100 for every man woman and child in the U.S., using the present population of 307 million. Instead, the money goes to the military industrial complex.

Who will pay the borrowed money back -- printing presses, or taxes on us? Before a politician wants to spend that kind of money, he should be required to count to a billion for every billion he wants to spend. That'll wake those politicians up, and slow them down.

Frank J. Sasevich

Bolingbrook