[adorno]

No matter how many times I read the Constitution I can not find any part of it that justifies giving money to foreign countries.

Too late to ask your questions.

The only spending that is authorized under the constitution, is for defense. Welfare, Medicare, Medicaid, subsidized housing and just about everything else, are not constitutional. Even the IRS and social security are not authorized.

With defense, comes its sister mandate, which is foreign aid. Foreign aid is an attempt to keep foreign problems away from our shores, and it would be a lot less expensive to keep the enemy at bay than to have to fight him here at home.

[Vlad0]

and it would be a lot less expensive to keep the enemy at bay than to have to fight him here at home.

Nah. I don't buy it. Places like Chad (a country in Africa) offer ZERO threat to us.

It's only because of the expansive view of "American interests" that we have all this aid.

In fact DeSantis was right the first time, the Ukraine - Russia thing is a border dispute.

If we had not been building up a huge military force there (Ukraine in NATO) we would not have the war, we would not be sending hundreds of billions of dollars there.

The NeoCons all get rich pretending that Chad and Ukraine are of "Strategic Importance" - they get money, their phoney think tanks get money ("Institute for the Study of War"), their friends in Euro get money, the EU gets money, African dictators and generals get money.

You've already surrendered on the main point: it's all unconstitutoinal.

But then say "Too Late".

I don't get that. If it's too late for the Constitution to be applied as written then what is our defense against total civilian disarmament, or heinous "hate speech" laws shutting down Free Republic? Or a zillion other not-so-hard-to-imagine depredations that the Cloud People would like to impose on the Dirt People?