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Posted by: King Dutchy
I'll just repost something from another group.
Posted by: SPARTAN 32192
*sigh*
Foreign aid develops the markets of the future; long-time aid recipients have become strong trade partners and are the fastest growing markets for American goods. Foreign aid develops partnerships with countries committed to enabling the private sector investment that is the basis of sustained economic growth to open new markets for American goods, promote trade overseas, and create jobs here at home.
Most people don't realize that anything we construct for another nation abroad has to be made from all American materials. Even most US cars can't be used for transport because the engines were made in Canada.
Anyone who wants to abolish foreign aid is silly. It's a crucial part for any hegemonic state to remain the hegemonic state. You make it seem like we're giving away as much as we pour into our military. Foreign aid is $53.3 billion, government wise, that's not a lot of money. And since it's going into a future investment, it's a pretty good idea to maintain a healthy budget for them. I've written enough papers and done enough presentations on this crap to fry my brain.
TL;DR If you seriously think cutting foreign aid will somehow help our "bad" economy, then you're just really delusional.
Care to give some examples of "long-time aid recipients have become strong trade partners and are the fastest growing markets for American goods"? It's 50 billion or a largely reduced amount that's not being given every year, it's not much, but it's better to start somewhere. Bringing back our military overseas is a good way of cutting unnecessary costs too.
@SgtMag1: I agree with what you said about Asia and Europe, but I feel we can at the very least, scale down the number of troops in the Middle East, and instead of GIVING them weapon systems, we TRADE them to Israel :) Regarding Israel, these groups don't
pose a significant threat to Israel itself even though rocket incidents might happen. I'll tell you why. If Israel wanted, it could completely annihilate Gaza, the West Bank or anyone it wanted whether they are Hezbollah or whoever in this area without any struggle if it didn't try and prevent civilian casualties.
[Edited on 12.26.2012 3:46 PM PST]