[MissAmericanPie]

We have spent 7 trillion dollars trying to raise the standard of living for the third world. We need to cut that out.

[FreedomPoster]

Just like we have spent even more trying to eliminate the problem of the "poor". We now have many more poor than when we started. Hmmmm - let's see, use government to throw money at a problem, you get more of the problem, and get asked to throw more money at the problem. Repeat.

Why does the Left insist we keep banging our heads against the wall like this?

[Angelique]

In other words, you vote for Nugent, and O'Neil should have stayed home. It just occurred to me that we allow the Income Tax, but yet our dollars do go to failed third world countries.

If I want a loan, I must jump through hoops, and for the life of that loan I am accountable to how the money is expended, e.g., a home. You have really raised an excellent aspect to this discussion.

[Old Fud]

We have spent 7 trillion dollars trying to raise the standard of living for the third world. We need to cut that out.

Yup. Nothing will improve in these countries until the engine of capitalism is harnessed.

I don't cite Rand often, but there is a reason that societies remain primative: philosophy. If the philosophy of a culture never broaches figurin' out the nature of reality, progress will effectively be impossible.