Sometimes,war is a necessary means to end. When vulnerable
people are being oppressed, it is the job of the powerful to defend them with
all the might and resources that is available. The intent of the war is to
stamp out anything that inflict pain on others. The United States has always
been willing to step up to the plate. But what if the required war is on
poverty?, will the U.S. fight this war as it has previous ones?

Today, on just about every news outlet, politicians make noise
about the national debt. Their concern is that the U.S. is spending too much
money that they don't have. I suppose that American's should applaud their
honorable efforts. According to Babylon.com, the
national debt is a bit over 13.6 trillion dollars and growing. But here is a
bit of other relative news, according to costofwar.com, the two wars in Afghanistan and
Iraq adds 1.6 trillion dollars to the debt.

War proponents continue to say the war is a necessary means to an
end. They also believe that the wars should continually be funded to support
the commitment that the U.S. made with the two embattle countries. Meanwhile
the citizens of the United States is bracing themselves for the eventual cuts
in funding to domestic programs, as the new conservative movement moves into
the House and Senate.

Attention, politicians and American citizens, Poverty should be
the new war. According to, FeedingAmerica.org, in
2008, 4.8 million citizens used food assistant programs, that works out to 4.1%
of the U.S. Citizenry.  Similarly to the claims that international
war-proponents make, inaction on poverty causes death as well; little or no
health care causes serious decisions to be made, often leading to death;
malnutrition resulting in ill health and depressed and frustrated communities
increases the statistics of victims of violent crime. The depression of 2008
has pushed unlikely Americans in to the poverty class. Some of the new
impoverish have never saw their incomes grow be low a middle class income, they
now themselves asking the government for help to feed their kids or buy
medicine.

A slew of ultra-conservative elected officials are ready to slash
programs, make laws that further depressed communities. All this, to curtail
spending and slow down the deficit. If not, generations of Americans will have
the debt hanging around their neck many years after the death of the citizens
who created the debt. It is a noble and necessary cause.

 Isn't equally important to feed, clothe and provide shelter,
for the present citizens?  The new lawmakers have a choice to make; do
they decrease social programs and continue to fund international ones? or
simply, cut both significantly.  Clearly, whatever is done, more people
will suffer if America drawback its money, support or manpower toward the wars.
That is, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, because the war against poverty has
hardly been started.

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