Sen. Brakey: “No More Welfare for Dictators”
Foreign aid is taking money from poor people in a rich country and giving it to rich people in a poor country.
Our government is not giving aid to foreign people. Our tax dollars are being sent to foreign governments, which use our money as leverage to continue ruling over and oppressing the people.
Many of these foreign governments have atrocious human rights track records, including beheading Christians.
As an example, you have the nation of Pakistan, which harbored Osama Bin Laden for years and is currently imprisoning the man who helped us catch him. Yet we have sent Pakistan billions from the American taxpayers over the last decade and a half.
Foreign aid should really be called “welfare for dictators.” It isn’t authorized by the constitution and it isn’t how the government should be using our money.
No more welfare for dictators.
Until we get our own house in order aid to any country should be stopped. We're pushing 21 TRILLION dollars of debt.
You might need to check how much aid is being sent to countries that the US had ruined to begin with, creating the need for aid to begin with.
Hey, I won't argue that we've done some screwed up things as a nation. With that said, there comes a time when you have to say enough is enough. When you're 21 TRILLION in debt, enough is enough.
If YOU were that far in debt, MOST debts you might owe couldn't even be garnished from your paycheck because you'd be paying out too much already. We're not garnishing from the government paycheck...The government is VOLUNTARILY giving away MY tax dollars. I'd rather have those dollars in MY pocket.
A lot of it comes back to your foreign policy. Maybe for every dollar of foreign aid you think they should withhold, they should also withhold probably 10 times that in military spend. Most of the foreign aid is there to either help a geopolitical goal (ie. Egypt, Israel) or to fix a problem they created (ie. Afghanistan, Iraq).
It's sad that a country with such big debt issues prefers to cut back spending on their own people as opposed to cutting back on the overgrown military that they just use to get up to no good around the world.
In America government spending should be cut 10 percent a year until agencies cannot afford to hand you an ink pen. Then we can talk about giving more to their budget. There is NO PROGRAM in American government that isn't rife with waste. Force these programs to end wasteful spending. This includes the military. We spend more on "defense" than I think the other top 8 nations(I'm going off of memory here, I could be wrong). We still can't win the war in Afghanistan.
It's not just America unfortunately. Most western democracies are horribly inefficient and wasteful. They've even been privatising public services in an attempt to curb this and you end up with public services being run for profit
You are absolutely right. They say we need to spend all this money on foreign aid to “project strength” — but you don’t project strength from bankruptcy court.