[hedgetrimmer]

Congratulations, you just repeated a mantra that the liberals believe - that one can only get rich at the expense of another

No I didn't. I pointed out that Rob Portman is taking 2.7 billion taxpayer dollars and giving them away to foreign countries. This is wealth redistribution and nothing less. He says it, right in his statement. The only place that $2.7 billion is going to come from is OUR economy, its not going to grow on trees in south America, silly.

[MadIvan]

This appears to be your method:

1. Say something outrageously stupid.
2. Get called on it.
3. Deny you ever said it.

Run along little girl, you're not grown up enough to play in this league.

Ivan

[MadIvan]

No I didn't. I pointed out that Rob Portman is taking 2.7 billion taxpayer dollars and giving them away to foreign countries. This is wealth redistribution and nothing less. He says it, right in his statement. The only place that $2.7 billion is going to come from is OUR economy, its not going to grow on trees in south America, silly.

Let's try this one more time before I declare you the winner of the "Deserving a Grapefruit in the Face (ala James Cagney in "Public Enemy") Award".

What he is talking about is foreign aid to allow countries to participate in the market. This is so that the United States can trade with them, buy their things and they can buy American goods. In trade terms, it's a win-win situation. With a bit of luck and the right policies, those countries won't be basket cases any longer so that Sally Struthers won't get worked up asking for aid for them any longer.

But someone as stupid and blinkered as you makes primitive connections between events. I can almost hear the Neanderthal cadence of your paleolithic thought processes - "Ungh. Money go overseas. Ungh. Socialism. Ungh. Bad. Hedgetrimmer no like. Bad bad bad."

Ivan