[mac_truck]

American taxpayers are concerned about the growth and power of, and financial obligation, to unelected international institutions like the IMF...the folks on your side not so much.

One need only look to recent events in Athens to see how badly things will turn out in Kiev, so why throw money down that same rat hole?

[1rudeboy]

Of course, the Russians don't want us spending any money at all. No differentiation between wasted spending and not. To them, it's just "get conservatives to reflexively react because it's spending." You might be able to play others for a sucker, but your spin is transparent to me.