I got an email this morning that talked about our foreign aid regarding rebuilding the mosques. Basically what this Muslim immigrant said was meant to be seen as "friendship" building is being seen as a "weakness". It showed a mud brick mosque that was 1300 years old, now retro-fitted with computers and the internet. Basically what this immigrant said was, "you're putting our technology in their hands". The very same people that we are supposed to be at war with, we are outfitting for war.
Now, she did not mean that all muslims are at war or want to go to war with America. What she was saying is, why offer help to those that do? Oh, I think it was the same mosque... we retrofitted with indoor plumbing. In the mean time, our veterans here can't get required health care, we have hungry and homeless people in every city in the country.... we keep fighting these same problems elsewhere and won't even take a real look at those problems here.... pitiful.
I agree with margy....we should help the starving.
So I say stop all foreign Aid except for some help to Somalia and the Ivory Coast .where they are starving...
We pay for all the foreign aid ... masses of it, we even pay to restore old mosques in the mid east and other muslim countries that can afford to restore their own .I think Saudi Arabia should really be fixing up our churches ..especially St Nicholas the one that stood on ground Zero ,they wont replace ..
I just read someplace that Congress is slashing & burning a lot of foreign-aid packages, in order to reduce spending.
I feel certain that "the world" will be in uproar soon, because we're cutting the purse strings.
And who pays for the foreign aid?
Me, you, all tax-payers in the United States of America.
I don't see anyone coming to our "aid" in our time of need.
I agree...stop giving money away til we pay off our debts....
As to otheres owing us...I go along with the...when you loan..just make it a gift
Firm believer in paying my debts....dont like owing anyone anything...
And the TRILLIONS upon TRILLIONS of dollars that other countries owe us?
And the hundreds of BILLIONS of dollars we give to foreign countries, each and every year, in "humanitarian aid"?
Before you start worrying about who WE owe... let's talk about who owes US.
First and foremost we need to pay off our debts to other countriies. Has anyone thought of what may happen if China gets tired of not being paid? What if they decide they have a right to their money and the UN backs them, or even if they dont...do we want China mad at us? I would like to see us pay China back asap and then our businesses all pull out of china