Putting "Country First" is not throwing money at people who haven't fixed the problem which necessitated the money in the first place. Nobody even KNOWS if throwing money at anything will do any good, except to line the pockets of a select few, because there has been NO FIX to coincide with the money-giving.

Common sense (what a concept!) says you fix the hole in the boat so it doesn't sink when you add more weight to it. What's the difference here? So far the only difference has been the "Chicken Little" "Sky is falling" hysterics of a select few.

If it took many months/years to get into whatever this mess is, shouldn't clarification of what caused the mess and what it will take to fix it occur BEFORE you throw money willy-nilly into the air? What's a couple more weeks to do all of anything in a SANE, RATIONAL manner versus acting like an hysterical mob with no proof that what you do will have any effect?