What a crock of shit they’re voting on!
- Thread starter Steel head
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Agreed. i'll add a #4 - How often, as the individuals who directly fund the foreign aid, do we get a report back from our elected leaders that our investment resulted in X% return on investment?
If we, as working americans, get taxed 25-38% of our income, we are working up to 1-2 days a week FOR THE GOVERNMENT. Those funds and their subsequent investment to foreign nations should absolutely come back with a report with tangible gains and results.
Without the outcomes being identified, it is literally burning our money infront of our eyes.
It would be better to say we send credits for US aid I think.
Lend-Lease was a huge giveaway of war material to Great Britain and the Soviet Union, for example.
The Marshall Plan involved billions in aid to Europe after the War, including loans and credits to purchase US goods, shipped via US shipping companies, since the Europeans had spent their foreign exchange reserves. Nations typically keep large reserves of prominent foreign currencies in their central banks.
So when we give “billions in foreign aid”, it’s usually an indirect award to US businesses meant to influence foreign policy in another region of the world.
Not sure what the contract award looks like for Gender issues in Pakistan, but hey. Who cares when nobody is reading the bill besides the ones who drafted each of their pieces of the pie.
I take it you’ve never seen what true hunger looks like. America hasn’t experienced hunger in generations.
Have you ever seen an active orphanage in the US?
Have you seen parentless, homeless children begging on the streets?
We have an obesity epidemic in children already in its second generation, because food is so plentiful and people are able to comfort-eat with no real financial limits, regardless of socioeconomic status. In fact, many “poor families” consume more calories than wealthy families. This is a unique phenomenon in the history of man, but so is calling a class of people “poor” who have higher quality and quantity entertainment, transportation, and medical care than royalty have historically had even into the 1950s.
Any pedestal-placing of FDR can’t be taken seriously by someone in the Information Age. You must know better than that by now, unless you’ve been allowed to be indoctrinated into the worship of FDR. His economic policies should be a study in what not to do at every step.
Orphanages are called 'group homes' around here and I've known a few that have been through the process.. I have been to an orphanage in Mexico.
Lots of schools in this area (Silicon Valley) are providing meals above and beyond the cafeteria lunches. I think they have demonstrated that a full kid is a better student and less of a disturbance than a hungry one. Also some schools are adding laundry facilities because some kids don't have access to clean clothes.
I'm not sure I put FDR on a pedestal, but I did think that the alphabet soup projects he put in place helped hundreds of thousands of people out of abject poverty. In addition, most of them learned a skill that they could compete in the workplace afterwards. If you believe in Keynesian economics, then he did what John Maynard Keynes recommended in bad times. I don't see many of today's politicians saving for a rainy day in good times.
