The American Value Meal

A Whopper Junior with cheese value meal used to cost $2.98. It was a good value. In places of the country that are fortunate enough to have Rally’s, they offer a good deal on the same thing. Under three dollars for a meal. A tasty burger, fries, and an ice cold drink for less than three bucks. A Big Mac value meal costs $4.50. The price of the Whopper Junior value meal now is comparable to the price of the Big Mac value meal. Why is this? Inflation. It is becoming inescapable that INFLATION is returning with a vengeance. It is inevitable, because Congress keeps funding the Iraq War with billions of dollars of money America does not even have. The banking community has always taken great pride in lending money to the federal government. It ensures they stay in business. Seeing as banks don’t really make a lot of money investing money in people’s checking accounts, the interest earned on billions of dollars of debt keeps the banks in business. It is kind of a “You scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours” kind of thing. Ultimately the buck has to stop somewhere. You just can’t keep spending money we don’t have to fund a war meant to provide services to another country. Whereas the United States does have territories that are not states such as Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, should Iraq be one of these? Vying for Iraq is an anachronism more at home in the “Age of Old Imperialism” that began in the 1860’s. Then the United State’s actions could be justified, considering other Western countries were doing the same thing. The U.S.’s blatant attempt at Imperialism could be considered unconstitutional, because many of the concepts found in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were conceived to escape the tyrannical rule of Great Britain, a country historically known for this practice. Did the population of Iraq deserve to have their infrastructure destroyed by a rogue military strategy that favored conservation of American lives at the expense of the Iraqi people? How can it be considered constitutional to destroy a foreign country, sinking it into civil unrest, in the name of “Weapons of Mass Destruction” that were never found. One man, Saddam Hussein, a loud-mouth shouting from his soap box, coerced the American government into destroying a country. What authority does the United States have to dictate morality to a mostly Islam nation thousands of miles on the other side of the Atlantic ocean? Imperialism is beginning to rear its ugly head. The Commonwealth of Iraq? Whereas we may have amicable relationships with Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, it seems we should let the Iraqi “people” decide what they want for the future of their country.