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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

What he is talking about is foreign aid to allow countries to participate in the market.

Here are some poor countries.

They have nothing we want, so we don't trade with them.

Here are some global socialists.

They take our money and give it to the poor countries so that they will make something to trade with us,even if we don't want it.

While it might be charity, if private individuals were putting up their own money to do this, its WELFARE when our government pays for it.

Yeah, a lose-lose situation. We're out a bunch of our tax money, being british of course you care nothing about that, and the "poor country" instead of competing and producing something for the world market on their own, gets a giant sized welfare check for just being there. Good one, MadIvan.

We don't need to ALLOW them to participate in the market. Don't you "free traders" talk about dropping all tariffs and allowing real competition? If they had anything of value, they'd be competing with us. As it stands you phony "free traders" would rather give them handouts, our jobs through outsourcing, and our manufacturing and agriculture through offshoring. Your system stinks, rather badly I might add.