[Southflanknorthpawsis]

I don't know how to break it to these nuts, but God's law trumps the Constitution (magnificent as it is). It is our duty to do what we can to attend the suffering of fellow men when they cannot help themselves, whether they live next door or in another country. If we cannot share our blessings, we don't deserve to have them.

[ArneFufkin]

It is our duty to do what we can to attend the suffering of fellow men when they cannot help themselves, whether they live next door or in another country. If we cannot share our blessings, we don't deserve to have them.

The attack on the African AIDS pandemic is not only a moral and ethical prerogative of God-given humanity, it is a campaign of American national security interest on a multitude of levels. The states of Africa, like all those mired in third world misery and political corruption, need to be viewed as petrie dishes for anti-American terrorist staging going forward. That threat needs to be neutralized by a localized American presence of morally positive and economically fulfilling infulence. There's no more bunker-monkey isolationism post 9-11, but the embittered-populists and LP narcissists here will never understand that reality or undertake that vital responsibility.

[tpaine]

T, you're barely worth a post, let alone any more effort. But if you want to fantasize about being James Bond and mysterious people stalking you, far be it from me to stand in your way.
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Dream on that I have a Bond fantasy, 'paw'.
-- And 'Sharkys' stalking dreams were well documented at the AFholer sites of that time, witnessed by many who still post here.

You are the real 'nut', for contending that "God's law trumps the Constitution" in the matter of foreign aid.
That is just an un-FReeking-believable position.

[Mortimer Snavely]

"If we cannot share our blessings, we don't deserve to have them."

This whole AIDS aid thing is a "pearls before swine" situation if there ever was one.

[Kevin Curry]

I don't know how to break it to these nuts, but God's law trumps the Constitution (magnificent as it is).

Foreign aid in the name of "compassion"--Christian or otherwise--is a non-starter. Government is in the justice business and it is in the defense business. It is not in the Christian charity business. That is the business of private individuals, and I would encourage you to send your own money directly to AIDS relief entities in Africa if that is your wont.

But Arnefufkin's post identifies appropriate and legitimate (Constitutional) justifications for this kind of aid. That such aid would also alleviate personal suffering is a welcome and fitting additional benefit.

[Joe Hadenuf]

I don't know how to break it to these nuts, but God's law trumps the Constitution (magnificent as it is). It is our duty to do what we can to attend the suffering of fellow men when they cannot help themselves, whether they live next door or in another country. If we cannot share our blessings, we don't deserve to have them.

Big sneeze........You wanna spend you money? Go for it. Send half you paycheck pal. Leave mine the hell alone..

[philman_36]

If we cannot share our blessings, we don't deserve to have them.
If government cannot share our blessings, government don't deserve to have them.
Get the difference? We get to make the choice, not have someone make it for us.
And if I have any money left over after being overtaxed I'll share my blessings. Until then everybody should get their own blessings and leave mine alone! I have no "spare" blessings to "share" as they are all consumed in simply surviving!

[dcwusmc]

You may do whatever you like with YOUR money. Not with taxpayer money (mine)... see the difference?