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Congresswoman: Cut Foreign Aid to Pay for Children
AP ^ | July 13, 2014

Posted on 07/15/2014 1:41:33 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe

A Republican congresswoman from Tennessee says the U.S. should cut aid to countries that are home to thousands of children who have crossed the border illegally to pay for the cost of caring for them.

Rep. Marsha Blackburn made the comments Saturday after touring a temporary shelter at the Fort Sill Army Post near Lawton where more than 1,100 of the children are housed.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aliens; tennessee

1 posted on 07/15/2014 1:41:33 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
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To: Tailgunner Joe

I have an even better idea:

Cut foreign aid. To zero.

And deport “the children”.


2 posted on 07/15/2014 1:43:28 PM PDT by NorthMountain
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To: Tailgunner Joe

A brilliant idea, and it should cause the source countries to do something at their end.


3 posted on 07/15/2014 1:43:36 PM PDT by rjones42
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To: Tailgunner Joe

The king and queen can donate their vacation budget and the vermin in Congress can give up their perks.


4 posted on 07/15/2014 1:46:00 PM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: Tailgunner Joe

She’s on the right trail —

Cut any and all foreign aid to Mexico, Guatamala, Honduras — immediately.


5 posted on 07/15/2014 1:47:51 PM PDT by Uncle Chip
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To: rjones42
A brilliant idea, and it should cause the source countries to do something at their end.

I agree. Those in their home countries who would be most affected are looting all the aid anyway and are the ones in cahoots with Obama to propel the invasion here. Cutting aid would hurt their grift, maybe enough to incentivize to control their own borders.

6 posted on 07/15/2014 1:49:10 PM PDT by Paine in the Neck (Socialism consumes EVERYTHING)
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To: Uncle Chip
She’s on the right trail —

Cut any and all foreign aid to Mexico, Guatamala, Honduras — immediately.

Good idea. Why send money to countries whose citizens are moving here and turning us into those countries?
"We have met Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras, and they are us".

7 posted on 07/15/2014 1:57:04 PM PDT by Sans-Culotte (Psalm 14:1 ~ The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.”)
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To: Sans-Culotte

Better yet, ban money wire transfers going from the US to those countries .


8 posted on 07/15/2014 2:01:22 PM PDT by TurboZamboni (Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.-JFK)
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To: Tailgunner Joe
Help the victims and fix the problem causing the mass emigration from corrupt, crime-ridden countries.

Simply cutting financial aid is not enough. A modest proposal.

For every child we take in we drop one bomb on criminal and corrupt ruling class targets in the child's home country. They are attacking us with biological WMD. Yes alert LEO here in the States to prepare to meet and defeat the Hispanic gangs by any means necessary.

Special consideration for Mexicorruption. Arturo Sarukhan, a top official in Mexico[rruption]'s foreign ministry [among other Mexicorruption ruling class], said [vis-a-vis their anti-US tactics]:"How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time."

We squash the corrupt ruling class.

9 posted on 07/15/2014 2:05:58 PM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Seems the congresscritters are reading FR. See post # 13.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3177025/posts


10 posted on 07/15/2014 2:08:50 PM PDT by Sergio (An object at rest cannot be stopped! - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Yes, take some of the money Kerry has ben handing out to terrorist nations.


11 posted on 07/15/2014 2:13:44 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (The cure has become worse than the disease. Support an end to the WOD now.)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Take it all out of the UN payments.Hsndling refugees is the only useful thing they ever do- but not for us?


12 posted on 07/15/2014 2:13:46 PM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat Party!)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Marcia Blackburn has done a great service to our country just by publicizing her idea.

The more support she can build in Congress to pass a bill cutting off our aid to Honduras, etc., the more fear she can engender in the hearts of the corrupt Central American politicians flooding our border with their poor children.

It’s clear that our aid is not helping to eliminate childhood poverty in Central America, as intended, or Central American children wouldn’t be so desperate to come here.

Instead, our money is going into the pockets of politicians whose evil and corruption we should immediately stop aiding and abetting by putting Rep. Blackburn’s proposal into operation.


13 posted on 07/15/2014 2:17:22 PM PDT by Bluestocking
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14 posted on 07/15/2014 2:17:59 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: NorthMountain

Great idea!


15 posted on 07/15/2014 2:19:21 PM PDT by leapfrog0202 ("the American presidency is not supposed to be a journey of personal discovery" Sarah Palin)
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To: TurboZamboni

Even better, charge a 100% fee for any wire transfers to those countries to cover the cost of the repatriation of their citizens.


16 posted on 07/15/2014 2:35:13 PM PDT by Waryone
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Yepper... just common sense... which seems missing in DC. Cut to ZERO all aid to the countries in question... including Mexico for permitting the travel.

When the problem is resolved, maybe, maybe reinstate the aid.

Also, change illegal immigration penalties to felonies with mandatory prison time AFTER the first catch. Then, hire Sheriff Joe to keep the illegals in tents in the desert along with the others normally kept there.


17 posted on 07/15/2014 4:07:35 PM PDT by ataDude (Its like 1933, mixed with the Carter 70s, plus the books 1984 and Animal Farm, all at the same time.)
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