[r9etb]

Aid to other nations is welfare and is absolutely immoral.

Oh, pshaw.

The Marshall plan worked quite well, for example. Without it, it is quite likely that Eastern Europe would still be communist, Western Europe would be largely communist, and Russia still our mortal enemy.

[Kaslin]

It seem to me that there are Freepers here that only heard the part in red of this paragraph and not the whole paragraph.

When nations are governed justly, the people benefit. When nations are governed unjustly, for the benefit of a corrupt few, no amount of aid will help the people in need. (Applause.) When nations are governed justly -- when nations are governed justly, investing in education and health, and encouraging economic freedom, they will have our help. And more importantly, these rising nations will have their own ability and, eventually, the resources necessary to battle disease and improve their environment, and build lives of dignity for their people.

[Demidog]

The Marshall plan worked quite well, for example.

Yeah. The East Germans who struggled under it for 50 years were thrilled.