Health, War Spending, and Family Well-Being: Lesson 40 With Author & Retired Veteran Mr. James Jerome Hankins

March 30, 2026

Commentary Topic: Lesson 40: Weighing Public Spending Against Community Health Needs

By James Jerome Hankins: Retired Teacher, A&T North Carolina Graduate, Retired Veteran & Author

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To have the article read to you please click the blue link: Intelligence, Power, and Consequences: A Critical Look at Politics, Media, and Global Affairs

What We Blacks Need To Do: The First Book in a Three Book Series: Hankins, James: 9781434346971: Amazon.com: Books

𝓔𝓧𝓒𝓔𝓡𝓟𝓣𝓢 𝓕𝓡𝓞𝓜 𝓜𝓨 𝓑𝓞𝓞𝓚

“𝓦𝓗𝓐𝓣 𝓦𝓔 𝓑𝓛𝓐𝓒𝓚𝓢 𝓝𝓔𝓔𝓓 𝓣𝓞 𝓓𝓞 — 𝓟𝓐𝓡𝓣 2”

𝓕𝓸𝓻 𝓹𝓪𝓻𝓮𝓷𝓽𝓼 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓼𝓽𝓾𝓭𝓮𝓷𝓽𝓼 𝓹𝓻𝓮𝓹𝓪𝓻𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓽𝓸 𝓥𝓞𝓣𝓔 𝓲𝓷 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓝𝓸𝓿𝓮𝓶𝓫𝓮𝓻 3𝓻𝓭 𝓶𝓲𝓭𝓽𝓮𝓻𝓶 𝓮𝓵𝓮𝓬𝓽𝓲𝓸𝓷.

𝓛𝓔𝓢𝓢𝓞𝓝 40 𝓞𝓕 54:

𝓝𝓔𝓔𝓓 𝓿𝓮𝓻𝓼𝓾𝓼 𝓖𝓡𝓔𝓔𝓓

NOTE# Trump's sons are heavily invested in military equipment. We all need more affordable and lifesaving health care, not Trump’s war that he is profiting from. The IRAN war is costing around a billion dollars a day. Trump is spending one billion of our taxpayers' money to put the WAR on the front page and his skirt-chasing pedophile running buddy EPSTEIN on the back page.

His GOAL is to keep living in his luxurious 62,500 sq ft home, Mar-A-Lago, rather than in a 48 sq ft prison cell, where he should be. I suggest we stop the war and spend that one thousand million on research to prevent suffering and early death to members of my family and yours. If you LOVE your family, call your 1) U.S. representative and 2) U.S. senators and tell them you will not VOTE for them if they don’t stop wasting money funding Trump’s illegal war. You can contact them at (House.gov and Senate.gov). Many in my family long suffered and died from some of these diseases. I suggest you plan a potluck family dinner/meeting, go through the medical list, and discuss whether your politicians will spend “your money” on deadly wars or life-saving treatments and cures. Ask your three for a “ Point Black” YES or NO answer. If they don’t answer that way, but make up a story, they are lying just like you did when your mother asked you whether you broke that water glass? SMILE.

Do you support investing $1 billion each to find better treatments, more affordable meds, and cures for each of the following deadly diseases and conditions that are bankrupting your friends and family members? I am being treated for the ones with this symbol.

• 1. Diabetes

• 2. Heart disease (late sisters)

• 3. High Blood Pressure

• 4. Lupus (late sister)

• 5. Arthritis 6. Neuropathy

• 7. Loss of taste and smell

• 8. Liver disease

• 9. Stroke (late father)

• 10. Covid-19

• 11. Fibromyalgia (2nd cousin)

• 12. Alzheimer's (late relatives)

• 13. Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (cousins)

• 14. Kidney disease 15. Blood Clots (late aunts)

• 16. Alcoholism (late relatives)

• 17. Drug Addiction (relatives)

• 18. Mental Illness

• 19. Aids

• 20. Cirrhosis

• 21. Hepatitis

• 22. Sleep Apnea

• 23. Sciatica

• 24. Meningitis (one of my fellow high school football players died from this)

• 25. PODALGIA (foot pain) (late father)

• 26. Hypothyroidisms

• 27. Shingles (late aunts)

• 28. Osteoporosis (relatives)

• 29. Obesity

• 30. CANCER NOTE:(There are over 200 known types of cancer.

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“Though and prayers are always good, but Saint John had another suggestion. 1 John 3:18 KJV: My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.

In other words, “Help the sick through action rather than words!”

VOTING is a “good” action! HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT:

Please read slowly through these 30 conditions and check the ones you asked GOD many times to comfort you or others from as you make out your list of who to VOTE for!