After giving it some thought, I’m prepared to get behind Obama Care. I’m ready to acknowledge that we should, really, be providing our citizens with basic health coverage.

I am, however, only prepared to do it if we’re able to stop sending untold billions in aid to other countries. Clearly, a desperate need has been identified in this country. Is it not more important to tend to our own citizens than to citizens of some country on the other side of the world? Don’t the concerns of rising costs dictate that we use our money here to address the issues here?

So, stop the idiocy of foreign aid, and I’ll become the fucking poster child for government health coverage…

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Science flies you to the moon.

Religion flies you into buildings.

I am happy with your conclusion but more are needed.

I am not against foreign aid but it as with all capital must yield a return.

Capitalism is not dead it simply needs a haircut.

Its time to pay the piper and call ther tune.!

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Laws are purchased-Justice is prayed for.

We should? According to who?

You think that simply cutting out foreign aid is going to cover this?

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"I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with this administration somehow you're not patriotic." - Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton April 28th, 2003

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Who is the piper, exactly?

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"I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with this administration somehow you're not patriotic." - Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton April 28th, 2003

Carolina Politics Online

HOPE AND CHANGE

Who is the Golden Boy?

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Nothing to see here.

Most Foreign aid is paid back. And what ever happened to helping people less fortunate than ourselves?

If you want to cut spending in some area then why not cut spending in defence?

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"Tell the House of Lords to go to hell." - Dennis Skinner.

We only give 39 billion annually, and 14 billion of that is to Iraq and Afghanistan. It would seem practical to keep aid to Iraq and Afghanistan since the success of our military efforts there probably depends quite a bit on funding those countries for the near term. Subtracting off those amounts would only leave 25 billion annually, and that's about 1/3rd or 1/4th of the total amount needed to fund the typical kind of plan being discussed (which is usually ~100 billion annually for the first 10 years).

http://www.census.gov/compendia/stat...es/09s1259.pdf

The 2009 Statistical Abstract: Foreign Aid

Me...

Ah, perhaps not.

Let's start looking for other spending to cut, as well...

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Science flies you to the moon.

Religion flies you into buildings.

I'd support cutting off a lot of foreign aid. I'm just not opposed to it in general.

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Nothing to see here.

He whose name shall not be spoken...

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Science flies you to the moon.

Religion flies you into buildings.

Why point out the 711 Billion we waste on a military that can't seem to get out of it's own way, when their is the 23 Billion we spend on foreign aid to complain about.

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“ The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities; that is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection of the state.”

Adam Smith , The Wealth of Nations 1776

"We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics"
FDR's second Inaugural Address

you do realize that allot of that defense money goes to foreign aid.. to defend japan, Korea, Afghanistan, Iraq, Israel, turkey, europe..... etc etc etc

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"If they going to take credit, fair enough ... but it ought to come with a healthy dose of 'Thank you, George Bush" "Obama and Biden campaigned from one end of the country to the other for two years criticizing our Iraq policy," "If they had had their way, if we'd followed the policies they'd pursued from the outset or advocated from the outset, Saddam Hussein would still be in power in Baghdad today." Dick Cheney

ahhh yes , this is so old and misguided, do you think the people of Europe between 45 and 89 would have been on board? What would have happened to helping them, the disadvantaged?

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"The captain has turned off the `No Dubbing' sign. You are free to speak any language you choose."

You dont think theres any room whatsoever to cut US defence spending then?

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"Tell the House of Lords to go to hell." - Dennis Skinner.

We have people here who need assistance.

They have people there who need assistance.

It's our money.

We should keep it and use it for our own people, and not theirs...

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Science flies you to the moon.

Religion flies you into buildings.