Posted on 03/21/2017 7:23:50 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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That at least would limit the problem but also limit the program which is likely why it was never suggested.
I can guarantee these programs are rife with corruption in both the implementation here and the graft in the poor countries where it is being used. If we scrap these gifts to corrupt countries until they implement and prove a true conversion to Capitalism and Democracy, then we can can consider giving foreign aide again. Until then, nothing but American First and #MAGA. When they meet their commitments or can give us something in return, then it’s back up for consideration.
“We have people starving in our country and we are giving it to other countries”
Nobody other than the odd drug addict, if them; is starving in America. The poor in America are generally obese. They are really only poor when compared with other Americans. Go to India, or almost anywhere in Africa and large parts of Asia and see how the poor really live.
Those “Poverty stricken” Americans the demondogs talk about would be upper middle class in most of the world. They have enough food, they have power, some access to health care, an automobile, a cell phone, more than one suit of clothing, running water and indoor plumbing. They have heat in the winter and many times AC in the summer. They have access to 12 years of education.
The whole idea of “poverty” in the US is so ridiculous as to be laughable.
That said, most humanitarian aid administered by governments does appear, in my experience to be fairly corrupt. Let Caritas or The Baptist Men do the job. They’ll feed more people with better food for less money.
One of the things that most opened my eyes about Democrats when I first really watching politics in the ‘90s, was Patsy Ming (Communist-HI) was giving a floor speech in the house.
She said that there should be a “ minimum standard of living” throughout the world, and that we, should pay for it since we are so rich.
I’ve yet to figure out how 100 million US taxpayers cand feed, clothe and house 8 billion people and still have enough left over to kick back to Democrat politicians and corrupt foreign tyrants.
Do these kids not have parents? Since when is it the government’s job to feed children, domestic and foreign? Keep it going, in fact, let Santa Claus (The United States) feed the entire world. Guilt, guilt, and more guilt as the working American gets taken to the cleaner and the country goes bankrupt. Enough!
Atta boy!
Send that money back to the taxpayers, and those who wish to feed the poor from other countries can donate to charities.
Besides, how do we even know that the money we send is even being used for that? It certainly has not purchased their love for us. It may have even created much envy & animosity towards us for all I know.
Well, I guess a corn/soy porridge is not exactly Wagyu steak.
Ask again a few years from now and my answer will be HELL NO!!!
Fortunately I’ve never had to eat one and unfortunately will never be able to afford the other.
Sure you can. Just not daily like Michelle Obama.
What bugs me is most, if not all, of parents whose kids dos get free meals at school have cell phones and cable tv!!! Prioritize necessities! I am of course referring to those living here in America!
There is no shortage of charitable organizations doing all kinds of fund-raising on conservative talk radio for various causes, including feeding poor children in other countries.
There are plenty of solicitations for contributions all across the media spectrum, for all sorts of things, including "Coats for Kids", here in NE Ohio.
These "campaigns" generally do very well. Which begs the question: why should the government use taxpayer money to fund these programs?
Tax money is by definition coerced (sic) from the taxpayer. How about, don't take my money for your preferred "charities"; let me keep it and decide for myself where it will do the most good?
I’ll just stick to eating my 20 oz grain-fed angus ribeye while watching old Sally Struthers commercials.
All absolutely true, Fai Mao.
So true.
I lived in the Philippines as a kid, and there was poverty there, but when we stopped in New Delhi back around 1971 and spent the night walking the streets because my Dad didn’t want to spend the money for a hotel room, I saw for the first time real honest to goodness poverty.
The poverty I saw in the Philippines looked like there was some form of community concern of the indigent. But in India, those people were on their own. I was thirteen at the time, and I recall walking by a guy who was nearly naked except for a small filthy cloth around his groin, holding out, palm up, a shaking, claw of a hand as his single eye (paired with an open, empty eye socket on the other side) gazed at us imploring in a foreign tongue to help him. We did not understand a word of what he was saying, but the meaning was clear enough, punctuated by his spindly, withered legs splayed out to the side.
It was simply dramatic to me, a display of pitiless and abject solitary poverty. I think my mouth was hanging open as we walked by.
Years later in the Navy, we pulled into Alexandria, Egypt for liberty. The peace treaty between Israel and Egypt had been recently signed, and we were going ashore. Me and two of my buddies hired a horse drawn carriage to take us down the street along the edge of the harbor. We had a guy jump up on the side of the carriage with a half a filthy bottle of yellow-brown liquid trying to sell it to us.
He uttered half a sentence before the driver turned, and putting his hand fully over the guy’s face, shoved him off as the horse trotted along. Shortly after that, we stopped as if for a pedestrian crossing through traffic, but there was nobody I could see crossing, until appearing in the road in front of the car just forward of us, was a guy in a dirty robe, dragging himself across the road, his useless legs dragging along after him. He pulled himself by his arms. The car coming the other way came screaming up, locked on his brakes, and the driver leaned out and began yelling at this guy in the road, shaking his fist at him.
It was unreal. These people were enraged at this guy dragging himself across the road. We just looked at each other in disbelief.
Thing is, you don’t see those things in this country. You just don’t. Sure. There are people living in squalor, but there is food available, and those people often have a bed to sleep in, a roof over their heads, and a mobile phone and flat screen television...and a car too.
No. We don’t have the same type of poverty here.
The United States should not be the World Wide Welfare Agency.
The countries that would seem to most need such aid are the ones that siphon off all the aid money into the bank accounts of the politically endowed. The reason those programs are so expensive and do so little good is the same reason they are “needed” in the first place. They suffer from a predatory ruling class.
Globalist communists! The Elites of these countries take the money anyway. The money never gets to the “children” that the wacko left seem to cherish so much for their personal sexual satisfaction.
Now if he will just start torturing puppies! And kittens. I hear Trump hates kittens.
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