I've been kicking this idea around for a few days, and I'd like to know what y'all think about it. Particularly those of you who have served or have visited in Iraq or Afghanistan
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Re: Two thingsreadherringFebruary 11 2010, 22:53:48 UTC
1.) America spends a very smal amount of its budget on foreign aid. The portion spent on defense is much, much larger. If we have the opportunity to ensure that a hostile force won't take root near our border, we could save a lot of money in the long run. Suppression of hostiles is expensive. But that doesn't directly answer your question - how about taking it from Israeli aid? We give them the lion's share of our aid, and they haven't been terribly deserving.
2.) You tricked me into listening to Merle Haggard. I curse you.
The last time I checked aid to Israel hovered around $2 billion +/- some per year. Do you think that would be enough? Just shifting it from Israel to Haiti would do nothing to change the fact that the US is drowning in red ink and it's only getting worse all the time. Now if you wanted to talk about expeditious withdrawal form Iraq, Afghanistan, Japan, Korea, Germany and about 150 or so other countries then you're getting somewhere as long as you do something about the current $12 trillion debt and the roughly $50 trillion or so coming up for medicare, medicaid and social security over the next few decades. My point is your talking like someone with their house in foreclosure contemplating buying a new Maserati.
I'm not a big Merle Haggard fan myself, though as I get older my musical taste are considerably wider than they once were. Also, that song does a bit too much flag waving for my taste, but the point is the US is deteriorating rapidly; if were going to do any nation building, it might be better to start with ours
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2.) You tricked me into listening to Merle Haggard. I curse you.
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I'm not a big Merle Haggard fan myself, though as I get older my musical taste are considerably wider than they once were. Also, that song does a bit too much flag waving for my taste, but the point is the US is deteriorating rapidly; if were going to do any nation building, it might be better to start with ours ( ... )
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