How is your blood pressure? US Foreign aid.

[tmleadr03]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_foreign_aid

[Cman]

I knew we gave a lot of $ to foreign nations but didn't realize it was that much. Way too much $ to our enemies!

[islandermyk]

old news to me...


... I lived through that stroke and didn't drop dead first hearing about this

seriously though... is there something We the People can do about it?

[Teufelhund]

Almost $53,000,000,000 sent overseas in FY2010. Meanwhile, we are borrowing $0.43 of every $1.00 we spend.

I had low blood pressure when I got up this morning, thanks for getting it going.

[ChunkyMonkey]

The stupid part is you see how many lawmakers defending these kind of spending by saying cutting $50 billion is not going to stop $1 trillion in deficit. They said the same thing about NPR, bridge to nowhere, etc.

[Pancho Villa]

Drop in the bucket.

SS, medicare/medicaid, and welfare constituted 2.16 trillion dollars in 2011.

Yeah, foreign aid is dumb, but if we got rid of it, it would have no noticeable effect on any of our real problems, so it's kind of down there on the list of things I get worked up about.

[CrufflerSteve]

http://www.heritage.org/federalbudge...uqopaodqgmalg#

Here's a picture of how it fits in to the big bad budget picture. If the thought of foreign aid raises blood pressure this could stroke you out.

Steve

[Ronin13]

Almost $53,000,000,000 sent overseas in FY2010. Meanwhile, we are borrowing $0.43 of every $1.00 we spend.

I had low blood pressure when I got up this morning, thanks for getting it going.

Look at the list, 2nd on it is Pakistan... You'd think all that aid $ would buy a location for OBL BEFORE May '11...

[Teufelhund]

Drop in the bucket.

SS, medicare/medicaid, and welfare constituted 2.16 trillion dollars in 2011.

Yeah, foreign aid is dumb, but if we got rid of it, it would have no noticeable effect on any of our real problems, so it's kind of down there on the list of things I get worked up about.

SS, medicare, and medicaid would not be a part of the problem if those programs had not been raped over the years by politicians who thought they were just a piggy bank for them to play with. Those are not entitlement programs; they were/are paid into by all of us.

[Pancho Villa]

SS, medicare, and medicaid would not be a part of the problem if those programs had not been raped over the years by politicians who thought they were just a piggy bank for them to play with. Those are not entitlement programs; they were/are paid into by all of us.

They would just be a problem further down the road.

Yeah, politicians on both sides of the aisle just used SS as a general fund tax, same for medicare/aid, but that doesn't change the fact that the systems themselves are unsustainable. It just meant our children would have to deal with it instead of us, which, well, okay? I guess that's better in the sense that I wouldn't have to get all pissed off over it. But it doesn't change the core problem of promising more than you can possibly pay in the long run.