Charity begins at home and as far as I’m concerned, it can stay there.
“Charity begins at home and as far as I’m concerned, it can stay there.”
I agree wholeheartedly and although it remains unknown whether the U.S. government (with or without Obama) will heighten its existing “public perception” efforts, it is troubling that some globalist organization is encouraging our “leaders” to ramp up efforts to persuade us about the supposed benefits of sending our money out of the country.
Fortunately, there is what appears to be a growing movement in Congress that opposes the mindless transfer of our dwindling wealth to other less-fortunate nations. Unfortunately, there likewise is a movement in the opposition direction.
There are, arguably, times when the U.S. can and should provide foreign aid (though for the sake of brevity I won’t debate here when we should or should not do so). But the breadth of the current level of aid — which increasingly is being tied to military or other policy considerations — represents a legislative disconnect between the need to first address domestic issues (especially the need to reduce the tax burden on the citizenry) before attempting to save the globe from every potential ill and mosquito bite that supposedly will jeopardize all of humanity absent our intervention.