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Originally posted by Dragonlich
er... guthmund, how large a percentage of your annual government budget goes to foreign aid? That massive amount of money is *nothing* compared to other expenses...
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Less than 1% of the total overall budget goes to foreign aid. A relatively small amount most people say, but in 2003 that less than 1% was $15.7 billion and under the new proposed budget it jumps to $18 billion.
All things considered it is a small part of the total overall budget. That $18 billion, however, could be a sizeable chunk added to the Dept of Educations' allocation of $50-55 billion dollars, but then again, both pale in comparison to the whopping $350-400 billion dollars the DOD is budgeted in the 2004 budget.
I don't know. $18 billion dollars isn't a lot in the grand scheme of things, but it sure could help buy a lot of schoolbooks and classroom equipment.
Oh hell, I guess we could just buy us a really cool plane instead and forget all about it...