"How many people in our own country would that $4 billion feed? How many schools would it help?"
Where do these idiots think the money goes? It provides jobs for the people who build, maintain and operate the system. It provides income and revenue for the companies that do the same. Then it ends up back in the economy. People who EARN that money buy food with it, and pay school taxes with it. So, it DOES buy food for people and it DOES help schools.
I guess in the leftist's dull mind it is better to just hand the money over to someone who does nothing, than pay it to someone who EARNS it.
Those of us who earn our money (the producers) would much rather get something for our money, than just hand it over to the "poor" (the thieves) who produce nothing.