US Taxpayer-Funded Foreign Aid Received by 150/192 Countries in the World!

Reaganite Republican ^ | March 7, 2011 | Reaganite Republican

[Reaganite Republican]

 That's us dishing-out an allowance to 

over 78% of the nations in existence...

Thanks US taxpayers- but most of them still hate you anyway.

And if you feel like a chump- you should: we'll be paying for this dubious investement (+interest) ad infinitum:
America doesn't have any money to be giving-away in the first place, all discretionary federal spending is in-effect borrowed these days...

[video of Rep Ted Poe (R-Tx) 

on foreign aid and where it goes -here-]

Maybe for a start we could cut-off, say, Moscow or Beijing... 
or so you'd think!

The interactive foreign aid map linked below tells all... click on a country and all the relevant numbers come up.
You can view each aid program individually, and there's also useful "freedom", "corruption" and "development" filters...
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Interactive Foreign Aid Map -here-

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It's hard to see where this ceaseless no-end-game-in-sight 'global stimulus' has done much to stoke our diplomatic/strategic fortunes...
the United States seems less admired and respected than it has been in decades.  

But alas, when any approach isn't cutting it, this bewildered administration tends to serve-us-up more of the same failed policy, doubling down on previous errors...
and Barack Obama has long called for doubling of direct US foreign aid to over $50B... great.

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Reuters  AmericanProgress  Baloo's Cartoon Blog  Wikipedia  h/t Speedunque


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[vanilla swirl]

Thanks for the graphic “we’re broke” map ;-)

[Reaganite Republican]

That we are, Swirl... that we are

[the_devils_advocate_666]

$133,820,000 to Somalia? Is that ransom money for pirates?

[JimWayne]

Don’t worry. None of this goes to the countries colored on the map. The “aid” money goes straight to the bank accounts of the cronies in Washington DC, who will then use the billions of dollars to provide aid in the form of creating pdf files that create “awareness” about HIV. Not for nothing are Kerry and Lugar in the game. They throw some crumbs to the Third World leaders to allow them to use their names.

[JimWayne]

$133,820,000 to Somalia? Is that ransom money for pirates?

Most likely the money never left the US but went to some liberal group to run an "awareness campaign" about pirates in Somalia.