Op-Ed from the desk of IST editor
In these days of a worry about our national spending there has been a call for the suspension of all the US foreign aid to save some cash….many people are saying that we need to get rid of our spend thrift ways……I for one in the past has questioned the need for foreign aid….I have asked just what do we get in return…..but there are many that have NO idea what foreign aid is made up of…..they know the term and they know that it costs this country money…..but what it is is a mystery……maybe I can help…..
Here to help you visualize just how much the U.S. spends every year is a chart from the folks at Finance Degree Center.
Now I am saying that the suspension of foreign aid will NOT save much for the country……what we need to do is make country’s that qualify for aid use it for what it is intended, which happens very sparesly these days….take Israel…..the cash they get from the US is used to make war on its neighbors….we condemn any other country that does this…why not Israel?
Since foreign aid is basically “buy friends” then they should do as we wish or lose their cash cow…….call Israel out, for illustration, and the peace process would move along more smoothly…..but as long as we let them bully us and take our lunch money there will NEVER be a peaceful Middle East……..
Foreign aid is not going to solve many problems for this country….but it could be used to solve more international problems….that is if we make the aid on condition that it be used for the purposes it was given…..we can scream about wasted money but foreign aid is a fraction of what the Congress wastes every year……should we terminate their “benefits”?
My answer is YES! Congressional “benefits” is wasted money…there has been NO return on our investment in them.
All but one (Israel) of the top 5 recipients have oil, a lot of oil and selling it, why do they need our money? We do need to clamp down of Israel’s use of our money and stop hand outs to the rest.
We need to get guarantees for our cash……
Reblogged this on sachemspeaks and commented:
All but one (Israel) of the top 5 recipients has oil, a lot of oil and selling it, why do they need our money? I believe that we do need to clamp down on Israel’s use of our money and stop hand outs to the rest, put that money into helping our poor?
TY for the reblog….chuq
We don’t get much for investment and the real terrorism is in our own cities where gangs and drugs rule the night. A real war is going on right there in Mexico and Haiti still has not recovered from 2005 hurricanes. Why aren’t we there ? Suddenly we come up with a few billion for Ukraine. It is crazy.
I agree totally…my question is what domestic will suffer so Ukraine can be bought?
Thanx so much for the visit and hope to see you more often…..chuq
It has been and should not be that US policy makers see everything in terms of US vs Russia and feel we need an adversarial response to everything. We go to wars on the other side of the world with impunity and criticize Russia for Crimea which has been Russian for centuries. Sevastopol even has the Winter Palace of the Tsars.
We are a hypocritical government at best…….it all comes down to propaganda 2.o……thanx for the follow….appreciate it….chuq