[jmaroneps37]

This can be another chance to put the remaining Democrats on the record for their support for dictators and thugs that hate us.

[PGR88]

The US Gov’t is so huge, complex and ideological, that I sometimes feel that reform is impossible.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Do we really give $20 million in aid to Cuba and Venezuela ?

[Pollster1]

Foreign Aid is currently bundled together

Foreign aid should be a budgetary line item, and aid to most countries should be voted down. Aid to all countries that hate us or teach terrorism as a national policy should be voted down.

[MNDude]

some of these, like Egypt, we were paying our puppets to keep the people that hate us from getting influence. Not sure why we’d pay Cuba though.

[grobdriver]

Liberal politicians think they can buy the friendship of nutcases around the world, just like they are bought themselves.

Difference is, the nutcases will take our money, laugh and try to kill us anyway.

It's just another manifestation of Liberal stupidity.

[Wurlitzer]

In an economic climate where we have many clamoring to steal the money we were forced to “contribute” to SS and Medicaid, I maintain we should COMPLETELY STOP ALL FOREIGN AID to every country BEFORE we allow the government to STEAL our money.

We have been the most generous nation on this planet and all we have to show for it is a bunch of losers and loser countries that bitch about our every move even our alleged allies.

Get our military out of Germany, Japan, S. Korea. We have done our part and it is time to leave. They hate us anyway.

Only after we have stopped giving money to Foreign nations and stopped every cent paid to non-citizens in this country should we then look at cutting programs which WE HAVE PAID FOR.

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

Because the people who vote the aid hate this country too.

[SMARTY]

“Poe asked a very direct question, “Why do we need to pay them to hate us?”

An honest man has spoken!!

The time is long passed when the US can influence nations by good will and largess.

Much in recent decades has proved this policy is pointless and wasteful.

The number, logistics, nature of our enemies, in fact, the whole dynamic of world power is altered and is now unlike what we faced after the second war.

The most inept adult could not house break a dog as poorly as America has attempted to cultivate/retain ‘allies’.

Making whores of ourselves and playing patsy to every half-a$#ed national ‘leader’ and raving lunatic in the ME, with enough blood on his hands to choke the whole stable, is NOT diplomacy and if our enemies and allies no longer respect (OR FEAR) us… it is our own fault!

Drill here and drill NOW! Until or unless we do THAT, we have NO moral or practical leverage with these animals.

[WOBBLY BOB]

We should be aiding nobody. We’re broke.

Any “friend” who asks me for money knowing I’m in debt past my ears is no real friend of mine any way.

[PanzerKardinal]

“Why pay people to hate you.”

You mean like alimony?