October 10, 2009 at 6:49 am

After reading through the bill, I feel it should be incorporated into a three part national economic stimulus ideal:

1: Bring our troops home from unnecessary global conflicts. The influx of soldiers returning home will stimulate our national economy as they spend their consumer dollars stateside instead of improving the economies of foreign nations suddenly booming with thousands of long term foreign soldier residents.

2. The removal of the U.S. occupations of various countries that no longer need our support will both ease the global anti-U.S. sentiment and focus our military on domestic issues allowing our nation to untangle ourselves from the hair of smaller global disputes that only garner further ill-will toward the U.S.

3. Transfer the operational costs of these unnecessary military programs into funding for countries that do not have the ability to provide basic care for the poor, sick and elderly. I myself have felt the pinch of our national economic crisis having been laid off from job and still feel the need to help those far worse off from myself in any way possible.

Please show some real patriotism to the founding principles of this great country we are fortunate to live in by supporting any effort to elevate those less fortunate than the most impoverished of us to the basic standards of living we ourselves enjoy as Americans.