Spending on the Homeland...

Have you ever asked yourself this question, "How can we always manage to come up with money to wage war, but can never find money to educate children, or provide health care?" I know I've asked this question quite a few times over the course of my life, and having never received an answer, I can only presume it is because war is always eminently important and the other things are not. The thing is though, we don't/didn't really have the money for war, but we thought it was important enough that if we had to borrow it, so be it. It occurred to me today that amongst all the Republican and Media grandstanding surrounding the stimulus bill, we're finally elevating some of the "others" to a level of importance that they haven't been at for years. Infrastructure, police, firefighters, health care, education, these things are all needed, and right now they are all REALLY needed. I don't know if this package is the answer to our nation's economic crisis, but if we are "wasting" money, at least it's on the homeland this time.