[PhilipFreneau]

>>>You know what...I give up. I give you guys the opportunity to demonstrate the oft repeated claim that Ron Paul is a strict constructionist, and all you do is dance around the argument. You guys are nothing but a bunch of hot air.<<<

Your problem is you cannot read, buddy. I was right about your school, all along.

[csense]

You're not going to make any friends and impress people with that attitude you're carying around. 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.

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....