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In Reply to: RE: We all made this bed. Now we have to lie in it! posted by josh358 on March 30, 2012 at 05:29:21:
"Pakistan, for example, would be an enemy without it -- this way, it's only half an enemy."
lol That was good!
"That money gives us a lot of leverage in a part of the world in which business is done through palm greasing."
Do you mean like in Washington, D.C.? ;)
"The Egyptian dictators have been our allies for many years now."
Except that now they don't really have a government, and as things continue to take shape, it looks like the Camp David accords (remember Jimmy Carter?) are going to be thrown in the dumpster. More billions flushed down a rat hole.
My point isn't the percentage of the budget that goes to foreign aid, it's that we shouldn't do it at all. As the lefty liberals are so fond of saying (with regard to the space program, etc.), we could use that money to help people in America to get out of poverty or have better food or schools, or whatever. Don't get me wrong, those problems will never go away, I'm just saying that, when I get up in the morning, I don't see how my life is measurably better because we gave Dan Noriega or Hosni Mubarack a few billion dollars, but I AM entirely aware that I've got taxes to pay in a couple weeks, and I'd rather keep that $20 instead of giving it to guys like that. But if you're happy with the concept, I'll send you my address, and you can send me $20. :)
"We're still far and away the world's richest country."
Hmm, I don't think so, as much as we'd like to believe we are. Check out Singapore.
"The recession would have been over a couple of years ago if we'd taken the advice of economists, rather than demagogic politicians."
I'm not sure what you mean. Are you saying we should have listened to the liberal-leaning economists, or the conservative-leaning economists? In either case, Obama's position seems to be that since Bush ran up the debt and drove the car toward the cliff, now Obama's got to run it up even more and drive even faster in order to fix the problem. ;)
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- RE: We all made this bed. Now we have to lie in it! - Inmate51 08:20:53 03/30/12 (1)
- RE: We all made this bed. Now we have to lie in it! - josh358 09:37:16 03/30/12 (0)
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