[listenhillary]

I agree. Cut every penny of US foreign aid, remove the UN from our soil and stop payments to them. End support of the world bank.

The next world natural disaster, look to China to fund assistance.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Obama’s lesson in losing face ".......Yet, with “about-face” after “about-face” on Syria by the U.S. president these past weeks and his inability to prevent the partial shutdown of the U.S. federal government, the view from Asia of recent American leadership — whether presidential or congressional — is not necessarily a positive one. That does not bode well for the so-called pivot, or rebalance in U.S. policy, toward Asia, ............"

[adorno]

The next world natural disaster, look to China to fund assistance.

Well, in a way, China is funding the American assistance during world natural disasters. China does lend many billions of dollars each year to the U.S. to fund our government programs, and some of those programs would not exist without the borrowed funds, so, indirectly, China is "giving" to help in natural disasters. Can the U.S. afford giving as we do? No. But we do, and we couldn't without the borrowed funds and the printed funds, and we toss all deficit spending into our national debt.