Comments on: Odd Blog Couple: Military Spending and Health Care

By: Would We Be Happier If We Paid More Taxes? : Yielding Wealth - Personal Finance Tips - Money Management Advice

Sat, 16 May 2009 22:29:58 +0000

[...] still rank #37 in the world. We don’t even rank #1 (as our leaders would like us to believe). We pour billions upon billions into supporting the military efforts of other countries, but we can’t take care of our own [...]

By: E-sniper » Blog Archive » Move over Felix and Oscar: There’s a New Odd (Blog) Couple in Town.

Fri, 08 Feb 2008 20:59:29 +0000

[...] If you could increase federal spending in one area and decrease it in another, what would you choose? taxgirl Yielding Wealth [...]

By: Miki

Miki — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 17:01:08 +0000

In general, it would just be a nice change if our so-called leaders spent at least some of the money and effort cleaning up our own backyard before they tried cleaning up everyone else’s.

By: b5media - Move over Felix and Oscar: There’s a New Odd (Blog) Couple in Town.

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 15:30:57 +0000

[...] If you could increase federal spending in one area and decrease it in another, what would you choose? taxgirl Yielding Wealth [...]

By: miranda

miranda — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 17:11:24 +0000

While it may make the government happier when the U.S. gives it money and military personnel, many of the actual people are annoyed, I’ve found. My husband lived in the Philippines for a while, and he said many of the people resented the U.S. military presence.

By: Ren Garcia

Ren Garcia — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 17:03:15 +0000

I’m with you on decreasing US military spending in other countries. I just read in today’s paper that more US soldiers were being deployed in Mindanao, here in the Philippines.

By: The Odd Blog Couple: Yielding Wealth and Taxgirl

The Odd Blog Couple: Yielding Wealth and Taxgirl — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 16:28:56 +0000

[...] up on my post from yesterday, Miranda at Yielding Wealth offers her perspective on the following [...]