Another Addition To Our Platform - "Stop All Foreign Aid"
Posted March 21st, 2008 by arizona steve
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Has anyone stopped to wonder why our Government and the Fed has not even brought up the idea or suggestion that we stop all foreign aid immediately?
Maybe this question should be asked by RP in his next interview. And, we as a group should begin asking radio talk shows, Newspapers and CSPAN this very question?
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Substitute: Instead of Mandatory, Coerced (stolen) foreign aid
Give Voluntary, charitable, generous foreign aid.
Send Habitat for Humanity, the Red Cross or the charity of your choice, instead of stealing from the taxpayers. Give the people the choice of which charities to support.
IMissLiberty
This Idea Could Not Be
MORE PERFECT!!! More philanthropy, more direct involvement, everyone's an activist... Everyone's taken care of.
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Another Good Idea
I Like It, I Like It A lot.
As I recall..
when the tsunami hit, the U.S. was FIRST there with aid (or were we taking their guns?)
New Orleans - well, not so much. A whole he$$ week before water was even supplied!
And, where are the survivors? Thousands missing? Other states prepared places for them to stay, but no one showed up!
Correct me if I am wrong,
Correct me if I am wrong, but I believe foreign aid is unConstitutional. Taxpayer money is never to be sent outside our borders altho we are all free as individuals (or companies/corporations) to give aid to a foreign cause from our Own money. IMHO, foreign aid is usually nothing more than the transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries. I get sick of driving on streets in our country, seeing hungry homeless people, many of them children while hearing on the radio that we just sent more billions overseas. Ron Paul speaks to this issue in this video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=V...
"IMHO, foreign aid is
"IMHO, foreign aid is usually nothing more than the transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries."
Kudos! Well said! That distills all the sanctamonious crap surrounding our government's supposed "generosity" into one easily understood sentence. (As if "generosity" with funds taken at the point of a gun is really so "generous". Didn't they use to call it Theft"?)
I agree!
That's the best sentence I've seen in print in a long, long time, and that's saying a lot considering the brilliance of my fellow DPer's...
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Great Comment
Please keep Bumping this.
Thanks
Yes except in response to natural disasters
Gotta have a lil heart
We Can Possibly Send Food and Clothing But No $$$$$
Why can't we supply the aircraft and crews to fly over some of our stored food and re-cycled clothing from the Salvation Army and Goodwill. What's wrong with that rather than sending American dollars which will just go to line the pockets of the leaders. Even the food will probably be taken by the foreign Government and resold to the staving people that really need the help. What would the average person do with money if the stores and shops have been flooded out or burnt down, anyway. I always thought that we should paracute these items into the small towns outside of the main cities to make sure that they really get into the hand of the average person. Then they can be traded or given to those within larger cities. Kind of working from the outside-in type approach.
Of course each situation is different and it varies by country. Using our military assets for good would be one way to help to restore friendship throughout the World. But, first we need to bring the military home so that we can do good here and throughout the World.
Even food and clothing can
Even food and clothing can and does fall into the hands of the greedy and unscrupulous. I remember being in outdoor markets in Zambia, and seeing large, 100-lb bundles of US-donated clothing being ripped open and sold piece by piece, when they NEVER should have entered any kind of commercial channels. This was a very common occurence, too.
Yep. We give them food..they
Yep. We give them food..they sell it..the poor never get it. We should forget entangling alliances with other countries altogether, as a country. As individuals or groups of people we can do what we want.
Yes, the clothing I
Yes, the clothing I mentioned above was originally donated from the US Red Cross or Salvation Army, based on the markings on the bundles, but I believe I was told they had been distributed by some UN agency, Oxfam maybe? How they got into commercial channels was unclear to me, but I know that I almost got arrested just for trying to take a picture of the scene.
I believe Ron Paul has
I believe Ron Paul has alluded to that very thing when talking about the situation in Darfur ....
I Agree - Thats Why I Suggest The Outside-In Approach
The closest I got to Zambia was the Victoria Hotel on the south side of the Zanbiasie River at Victoria falls. Which by the way, I almost fell into. This was when the communist had first taken over Zambia and they were driving cars for the first time and then shooting them because they ran out of gas. Also, they were building cooking fires on the wood floors of the homes that they had stolen, burning them down.
I do believe that dropping these outside of the large cities into small communities as an outside-in approach might work better than the way it has always been done.
Wow, I guess I missed
Wow, I guess I missed seeing some of that! When were you there?
LOL at falling into Vic Falls --- from the slick grassy area on the Zim side, right? A guy slid down and into the falls a few months before I was there, so I didn't tempt fate and get too close in that stretch.
I Think The First Time Was 1968
High on the banks of the south side close to the falls and river it is cover in bushes and mud bathed in a fine mist and sloops steeper and steeper into the Abyss below. Right after I started to slip, every bush that I gabbed onto must not have had any roots because I ended up covered in mud, holding two hand fulls of bushes of many different types. I don't think I took a breath during these whole ordeal and I know that my heart must have stopped a couple of times along the way. Of course calling for help was out of the question because the only sound that one could possibly hear was that of the largest water fall in the World. My only cries for help were in the form of pleadings to each and everyone of the bushes that I gabbed onto, to please be strong little bush and stand your ground. Afterwards, all I can remember was walking back into this historical and beautiful hotel, passed the front desk and diectly into the bar still holding tightly to those same bushes that refused to stand strong. No one said a word, so I figured it must have happen to others in the past.
In Every disaster it has been
the private and religous groups who have really helped out the most.
Also, the govt doing it takes away a misnah or opportunity for a good deed. Good deeds enrich the giver and create more peace in the world. The govt stealing and doing it does not.
People left to their own are very generous. And the aid goes to the people not to crooked dictators, kings, sheiks who use their people's suffering to enrich themselves.
The government taking anyones money and giving it to another country is very immoral. Putting your children in bondage to debt to give to another country is EVIL.
People are far more generous than Goverments
With the federal tax burden off our back just imagine how much more people could give.
As an example:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w...
After the Indonesian Tsunami the US Government provided:
USD 950M[61]
US non-Government agencies and individuals gave:
USD 1875M[62]
Good Comment
Good Comment
I learned while working in
I learned while working in the non-profit world that roughly 75% of all charitable donations come from people classified as being in poverty to lower middle income levels.....it's the poor people who most often help the poor people.
Also, Republicans give more than Democrats
And, Democrats are wealthier. Statistically.
IMissLiberty