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pan6467 · 07-16-2004, 06:08 PM

I do not understand why we need to send money to every other nation in the world.

I am someone who truly believes if we cut foreign aid to only those countries that need it and it is in a humanitarian way (food, medical supplies etc) that we wouldn't have to cut social programs.

I think Rep. Kolbe's statement at the end showed that aid is used more to "buy" friends and payoff governments:

"Arizona Republican Rep. Jim Kolbe, said the timing of the House measure "could not be worse." He acknowledged Saudi Arabia had not always been a model partner in the war on terror but said "we need all the friends and allies we can get."

Buying friends never works as a kid, as a person or in politics or foreign relations, because when the money dries up those friends are gone, or when someone offers more they are gone, or in country's relations, it can lead to bad leaders staying in power and the people developing a giant resentment towards us. Especially when the country in indirect ways teaches their people to hate us or that we are evil.

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pan6467 Lennonite Priest Location: Mansfield, Ohio USA	I do not understand why we need to send money to every other nation in the world. I am someone who truly believes if we cut foreign aid to only those countries that need it and it is in a humanitarian way (food, medical supplies etc) that we wouldn't have to cut social programs. I think Rep. Kolbe's statement at the end showed that aid is used more to "buy" friends and payoff governments: "Arizona Republican Rep. Jim Kolbe, said the timing of the House measure "could not be worse." He acknowledged Saudi Arabia had not always been a model partner in the war on terror but said "we need all the friends and allies we can get." Buying friends never works as a kid, as a person or in politics or foreign relations, because when the money dries up those friends are gone, or when someone offers more they are gone, or in country's relations, it can lead to bad leaders staying in power and the people developing a giant resentment towards us. Especially when the country in indirect ways teaches their people to hate us or that we are evil. __________________ I just love people who use the excuse "I use/do this because I LOVE the feeling/joy/happiness it brings me" and expect you to be ok with that as you watch them destroy their life blindly following. My response is, "I like to put forks in an eletrical socket, just LOVE that feeling, can't ever get enough of it, so will you let me put this copper fork in that electric socket?"