Can Foreign Aid Save Africa?[Ron Paul]

House.gov ^ | 09 Mar 2008 | Ron Paul

[catbertz]

I agree.

[Resolute Conservative]

Spend the money on billboards that say basically keep it in your pants or don’t diddle anyone except your spouse and you won’t get AIDS and die. I’ll be okay with a few million on that.

[buffyt]

I would love to see ALL AID TO UN AND TO ALL FOREIGN COUNTRIES STOP RIGHT NOW! We have poor, homeless, hungry US citizens. Whether that way because of bad luck, bad planning, laziness, etc., we should take care of our own FIRST. Other countries do not send aid to USA!

[Resolute Conservative]

Same billboards here too.

[mnehring]

Maybe he'll propose a government funded and mandated volunteer program like the one he crossed party lines to vote for last week. That was real Constitutional.. yea..

[M203M4]

Something is wrong with this “stopped clock”. It appears to be right 85,000 times a day.

[Resolute Conservative]

I’ll second that.

[tacticalogic]

If we have to give foreign aid to third world countries, I think it should be done in small bills, air-dropped directly over the villages.

[Rick.Donaldson]

Ok, you have to know... that is a quotable quote now.

LOL

[NoWayMcCain]

Amen. Enough is enough is enough.

No more foreign aid to ANY country, especially while we’re running a budget deficit.

[Don Corleone]

Why in H...E ...double toothpicks is AID to Africa any of our damn business anyhow? Can you ‘splain that to me Lucy?

[GunnyHartman]

The President sent relief to Africa recently to help stop the scourge of AIDS on the dark continent (actually to help sway the blacks in America to vote republican).


Dubya's reasoning.....

Hmmm....let's see $15 billion for African AIDS should change the percentage from 11% of US blacks voting for us to....hmmm....lemme see....about 11% of US blacks voting for us.

[thulldud]

Foreign aid is "taxing poor people in rich countries to pay rich people in poor countries."

Not my invention, btw.

[Lurker]

I’ll be okay with a few million on that.

Then get out your checkbook because Article 3 Section 8 authorizes no such expenditures.

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[Larry Lucido]

When he’s not being a troofer, Paul makes a lot of sense.

[Larry Lucido]

More like a doctor who’s right 95% of the time but occasionally slices through an artery. Keep him away from scalpels and he and his patients will be fine.

[Resolute Conservative]

I agree no expenditure but if they are going to rob us anyway I’d rather see the money spent on that stuff rather than in some dictator’s pocket.

[monday]

“I’ll be okay with a few million on that.”

The point is, even one dollar is unconstitutional. No one should be ok with that.