US foreign aid freeze sends shock waves around the world

Deutsche Welle ^ | 01/31/2025 | Peter Hille

[Olog-hai]

Oh yeah . . . create bogeyman after bogeyman merely because a review of where US aid is being abused is ongoing.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

“Foreign aid” is money taken from poor people in rich countries and given to rich people in poor countries.

[Olog-hai]

That’s exactly the way the left likes it.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Those foreign programs are financed with U.S. Taxpayer dollars. We’ve got an America First president now. You boyz are going to have to wait for your cut.

[ASOC]

Sugar Daddy US is 38 Trillion in debt.

The show is over - no more free ride.

[mrmeyer]

Gdamn leeches

[Olog-hai]

Not a word out of Deutsche Welle as to whether US funds were being used for anti-US activity; in the case of the Biden regime, the funds were being used specifically for that purpose.

If the EUSSR were to do this kind of foreign aid, they would certainly be pushing “European values” very hard.

[Polyxene]

The Bank of Trump is CLOSED!

[Navy Patriot]

US foreign aid freeze sends shock waves around the world

Aww, Gee Whiz, ain't that just too bad.

[ClearCase_guy]

We won WWII for several reasons — but one of the important ones was our enormous industrial output. That was our great weapon. And we didn’t need the Manhattan Project for that. We just needed the population to work hard.

It’s the 21st century now, and the Rust Belt is a reality, and we have off-shored a huge amount of our manufacturing. But still — our enormous economy is still our great weapon. Trump knows how to use it. And when he re-shores our industrial base, we will be even stronger.

[fhayek]

Here’s a number: $36 trillion. Why do all of these craphole countries still expect money from the United States when we cannot make our own ends meet on a year to year basis?

[OrioleFan]

These countries can make it up by reclaiming all the money siphoned off by the Clinton Global Initiative, and Biden Crime Family ripoffs.

[rktman]

TANSTAAFL!

[ABStrauss]

Now close all embassies in worthless countries!

Start with the entire African continent.

Stop construction of the one in Sudan!

[ABStrauss]

Keep slashing!

Assign Congress salaries and expenses to the state that elects them.

[kelly4c]

Bookmark

[FLT-bird]

It will be taken over by China? *shrug* Fine be me. Let China pay for it. Goodness knows we have for long enough.

[Seruzawa]

Spare us. Most of the aid money is stolen by third world bureaucrats and cronies.

[SkyDancer]

Why should taxpayers support other countries? Since when are we the ATM for all of them?

[Olog-hai]

That’s a bogeyman that the EUSSR is raising.

And just to play devil’s advocate and presume their premise to be true: since Red China is using money taken from the USA, then the USA needs a say in that as well.