In Reply to: RE: We all made this bed. Now we have to lie in it! posted by josh358 on March 29, 2012 at 20:37:18:
"OTOH, foreign aid isn't much of the budget"So, should we piss away our money just because it's only a little here and a little there?
C'mon, Josh, you're smarter than that!
"it's a lot cheaper to pay off a corrupt dictator than it is to fight a war!"
Corrupt dictators have been our friends since forever. And then they turn on us, and we end up fighting a war anyway.
Are we fighting a war in Afghanistan? Didn't we just get done fighting a war in Iraq against our good buddy Saddam? How many millions of dollars did it cost us to pay off the Nicaraugian regime a few decades ago? How are we doing in Egypt and Libya and Somalia, etc.?
I really don't care that our "foreign aid" budget is small - it should be ZERO. Listen carefully: WE DON'T HAVE THE MONEY. WE'RE IN DEBT UP TO OUR EYEBALLS, and it hasn't gotten us - we, the American people - anything.
I'd be happy to keep MY money to pay my bills, instead of funding champagne and caviar dinners for the politicians. Have YOU ever spent 5 nights in a luxury suite at the Noga Hilton or the Intercontinental in Geneva? Neither have I.
I'm just sayin'.
:)
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