waauw wrote:patches70 wrote:I'm all for ending foreign aid for every single country in green. Now we just gotta figure out how to end foreign aid to the yellow and red marked countries and we'll be all set!
You son's of bitches wanna kill each other? Great, wanna kill each other using American made weapons? Also great. But hell if we should be helping all these son's of bitches kill each other by giving away free guns, ammo and weapons systems. You bitches gotta start paying for all that shit, including Israel.
I'm against all foreign military aid.
You starving bastards want free food but somehow have enough money to pay soldiers to keep your totalitarian governments in power? Screw that. Start paying for the food and medicine. I'm against all that economic aid as well. Farmers, doctors and scientists gotta make a living as well. Ya want their food, medicine and know how, then buy it.
However, natural disasters, those things happen and I have little problem with helping people in times of trouble when mother nature takes a big dump on ya. Disasters that are man made, man driven though is another story all together.
No foreign aid to anyone. Ya'll buy that stuff like you are supposed to. Can't afford it? tough tits.
You forget one thing. Much of that so-called foreign aid, is actually a political bribe or an economic subsidy to multinationals. One certain piece of criticism towards the world bank for instance is that they help 3rd world countries build infrastructure that is ONLY usefull for the western multinationals present there, and not actually for the poor locals. In the west we like to cry about immoral chinese investments in Africa, whilst we have been doing the very same for decades under the false name of 'aid'.
You see me advocating for that waauw? The US is the biggest funder of the World Bank and I think we should stop that as well. The World Bank is an economic hitman at best. Nothing in my libertarian leanings has ever suggested I advocate for such things. The idea of lending money to countries knowing they can't pay it back in order to snatch their resources goes into the territory of outright fraud, which is always, in every case, deplorable, immoral and unethical and those who engage in such actions have a layer of Hell reserved specifically for that particular crime.
I am against all US foreign and economic aid to
any country, period. The only exception in my mind is natural disasters, and even then only for a very short period of time to help with the immediate after effects of such disasters.
Wars, rebellions, depressions, etc, all man caused stuff. No free stuff period. Not "for the children", not for "world peace", not for favors. Not even to make ourselves "feel better". Governments are incapable of charity. It's not charity when you take, by force, from one person and give to another person. That ain't charity. That ain't aid. It's theft. It doesn't matter what or who or why you took from one to give to another, it's wrong, always. The money the US government gives to all these other countries was forcibly taken from American citizens who may not want to see their money being used by third world totalitarian leaders to further oppress and other wise f*ck the very people the "aid" is supposedly stated to help.
It's not "aid" when you take money from the American taxpayer and give it to <insert any country's government here> to help them fix their country. It's misallocation of funds at best, outright theft and fraud normally and even more nefarious far too often for my liking.
