[LS]

Let me say that I fully agree with them, and you, on so-called "foreign aid," which is little more than bribery.

Bush has at least had the honesty to tell these people they were not getting "loans" anymore, but "grants,"---but only if they met certain conditions (which none of them will meet.) At that point, we'll see if he intends to hold them accountable.

However, are you going to say that all foreign aid is wrong? I think that the money we gave to France and Greece and Turkey and Italy from 1947-1949 basically saved Europe from internal communist revolutions at the polls.

[RAT Patrol]

No, I don't think all foreign aid is wrong at all. I think it is the same concept as Welfare, give them a help up, not a hand out. Otherwise, they become dependent and never realize the tremendous satisfaction of self-sufficiency.