Our government is doing a bad job.

Con still fails to mention the 25 billion we spend on government buildings that are completely deserted each year. This is an outrageous price. Con has also failed to make a statement on the emptiness of our politicians promises. To list a few of our president's, he promised to eliminate "all oil and gas tax loopholes", "Require publicly traded financial partnerships to pay the corporate income tax", "Close loopholes in the corporate tax deductibility of CEO pay", "Create a $60 billion bank to fund roads and bridges", and "Forbid companies in bankruptcy from giving executives bonuses" (http://www.politifact.com...) none of which he came through on. Empty promises apply to all politicians, not helping the people, but rather saying things to please them and doing what they want. Although ADHD does affect 11% (or 5.2 million) this study was literally only for 5 year olds. They didn't need to be diagnosed with ADHD, they simply needed to act like a five year old. 5 year olds for the most part don't sit still if you observe them. ADHD or not they are still very active especially in a classroom where this test was conducted. If we were to spend 500 million on anything it should be on older children actually diagnosed with ADHD, and especially getting better medicine since 48% of people on ADHD medicine report side effects of difficulty sleeping, loss of appetite, or mood swings. Con has also misunderstood me when I said "they cut military funding" they did, and by a lot, yet con only looks at one type of budget cut not all of them. And though operation north woods took place 52 years ago, it was just one of many declassifies documents that are very old. The government tends to declassify documents when they are no longer needed to be kept extremely secret. Since north woods never happened, it was declassified, and it was declassified just 16 years ago. This document was kept secret for 35 years and it didn't even happen. Think of what the government holds on other things that did happen. The gulf on Tonkin incident also proves that the government lies and tricks us. During this incident the captain of the USS Mattox told his crew to open fire if North Vietnamese vessels came within a set distance. The Mattox fired off three warning shots but claimed that the North Vietnamese attacked first. A battle ensued and all three North Vietnamese vessels were damaged. When the Johnson administration announced the attack, they claimed the North Vietnamese as the aggressors, and claimed that a second battle on August 4th happened, which was completely false. There was no engagement whatsoever on August 4th. This news was not made completely public until 2003. Just another example that the government kept something from us for years. If you don't believe that could happen today look at the recording of AP calls, the IRS scandal, and the NSA scandal. With the two wars, either way it was a bad choice, and if this is true then not only did they spend way too much on them but also hurt America's oil interests. Yes, but millions of soldiers for years is a little much, especially since this is an unconditional war. These wars were not worth the money we spent since we technically didn't even win. Though we did kill Bin Laden, we had been gathering intelligence since the beginning of the wars and could've pulled out long before, but still have killed him using a team deployed by sea. With an EMP, any nuclear capable country can carry out a strike. North Korea does have missiles able to detonate at a high altitude if they were launched from a ship. If a nuclear weapon detonates 250 miles above the US it would completely devastate the entire country. Iran also has capable ICBMs which means as soon as they have a fully developed nuclear program, they could detonate a nuclear weapon at that altitude, and it is an acknowledged fact that we could not stop this launch, since the ICBM is launched from a ship. The ship could stay in international waters and launch off the west coast or from cuba and detonate without us being able to stop it at such a close range. They have also stated they will do anything to destroy the country of Israel, and Iran is know to have an extremely aggressive foreign policy. Also from www.adl.org "Many analysts are also concerned about the possibility of a nuclear weapon arriving in a cargo container at a major US port. Furthermore, a federally mandated commission to study electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attacks noted the vast damage that could be wrought by a single missile with a nuclear warhead, launched from a ship off the US coast, and detonated a couple of hundred miles in the air, high above America." and "in 2002, Iran's covert program was exposed. Since then, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has repeatedly said that it cannot consider Iran's nuclear program as entirely civilian.". Countries lie, no matter what you think. The US currency has value while the US is okay, but if something were to happen, the dollar could become valueless since it has no gold standard. Gold standard is defined by http://www.investopedia.com... as "A monetary system in which a country's government allows its currency unit to be freely converted into fixed amounts of gold and vice versa. The exchange rate under the gold standard monetary system is determined by the economic difference for an ounce of gold between two currencies.". This meant that the American dollar used to actually be worth something in gold. The dollar had Gold to back it up giving it real value. There is no longer a gold standard making this currency worthless. Also America used to put real silver into coinage, but no longer does, again making the money worthless. And even though we of have to be responsible, the interests of this country should come before politeness, even if our actions are frowned upon. The government also does not tell us the truth by media, even though they claim to. And the government still couldn't protect you in the case of disaster, made painfully obvious by hurricane Katrina.