This what I meant by similar authority and which you dismissed offhand. I'm not sure why since any reasonable person could have guessed this without doing any research at all into the specifics.
That said, the constitutional argument that Ron Paul makes regarding foriegn aid seems entirely untenable, unless you're willing to entertain the idea that he disagrees with what Congress, Washington, Adams, and Jefferson approved in 1791, which opens up a whole new set of criticisms.
Anyway, that's pretty much why I threw my hands up in the air. Not that it really matters....
>>>You’re not going to make any friends and impress people with that attitude you’re carying around.<<<
You might want to look at your own arrogant, condescending attitude before criticizing others.
>>>Speaking of national defense, I hate to be the one to break this to you, but foreign asisstance (of which foreign aid is)falls under the authority of Foreign Affairs and National Defense, of which the Department of Defense and the State Department, among others, are managers. There is no Charity Department. <<<
You can call it whatever you like (you do have that right in a free country, you know), but foreign aid is charity, exactly as Ron Paul describes it.
>>>That said, the constitutional argument that Ron Paul makes regarding foriegn aid seems entirely untenable, unless you’re willing to entertain the idea that he disagrees with what Congress, Washington, Adams, and Jefferson approved in 1791, which opens up a whole new set of criticisms.<<<
You are still talking apples and oranges. Tribute is not Foreign Aid. Tribute is protection money.