Hope Biden stops any cannibals at the border or we will all be in trouble like his Uncle Bosie was.
There are a lot of myths of foreign aid. The first is that cutting foreign aid would lead to a balanced budget or more money for schools, etc. Foreign aid accounts for about 1.3% of the U.S. Budget (it was about 1% before the Russian/Ukraine war).https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/articles/countries-that-receive-the-most-foreign-aid-from-the-u-s#:~:text=In%20reality%2C%20foreign%20assistance%20typically,globally%20from%202012%20through%202022.
Foreign aid is also a plus sum proposition because much of the aid is equipment and strategic, thus the aid perpetuates military and like agencies' employment. https://www.usglc.org/media/2017/04/USGLC-Foreign-Assistance-Economic-Prosperity.pdf
U.S. aid also creates instability in the countries who are natural adversaries to the recipient. Take the USSR for example...during the Cold War era, President Reagan used the Haig Doctrine to create internal instability in the USSR the largest reason for the initial fall of the USSR. Since the Russian/Ukraine war and the US aid, the Russian inflation rate is 7.7%, the highest in the region with the exception of Turkey.https://www.statista.com/statistics/276323/monthly-inflation-rate-in-russia/
The Iranian inflation rate was at 44% before the recent crisis. https://www.focus-economics.com/country-indicator/iran/inflation/#:~:text=Consumer%20price%20inflation%20in%20Iran,2022%20average%20figure%20was%2041.9%25. We can expect that as the Government contributes to more and more defense, the rate will increase to over 50%, a key number as over half the population will not be able to afford basic services/necessities. Perhaps Obama and Biden's biggest failings (although Trump didn't do much either) has been the failure to appropriately target sanctions related to Iran. The key is always to keep the Government financially weak but the people strong enough to create the internal turmoil (see Syria, Egypt, Libya).
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Too embarrassed to stick with your original post mentioning Lara Trump? I know everything 
TDS has a death grip on you,,,seek a well aged Romanian Gypsy Tarot Expert if a desire to overcome your affliction is there somewhere buried deep inside you desperately crying for salvation 
@packersbackers
Embarrassed? 
do I know anyone here? Wtf do I care if I change what I wrote. Please Go enjoy trump in court tomorrow crying farting squirming acting like a baby. Only Tds Is in football the fluck you even talking about maga man 
No, I don't. It should be though, instead of being used to fund proxy wars solely to pump said money into the pockets of defense contractors.
Good post dj, unfortunately it went over the heads of most in here. 
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