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发帖数: 38600 | 2 All US foreign aid is immoral and counterproductive. As I have often said,
it is money taken from poor people in the US and sent to rich people
overseas. That is because US assistance money goes to foreign governments to
hand out as they see fit. Often that assistance is stolen outright or it
goes to the politically connected in the recipient country. |
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发帖数: 38600 | 3 Just as bad is the fact that much of what we call “foreign aid” is
actually welfare for the wealthy here at home. The aid package to Israel is
a very good example. According to the agreement, this $38 billion will all
go to US weapons manufacturers. So the real beneficiaries are not the
American people, and not even Israeli citizens. The real beneficiaries are
the US military-industrial complex. Perhaps the money won’t even leave
Washington – it may simply go across town, from the Fed to the Beltway bomb
-makers. |
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发帖数: 38600 | 4 While even US government aid to desperately poor countries should be opposed
on moral and practical grounds, it is even harder to understand US aid to
relatively rich countries. At a nominal per capita GDP of over $35,000,
Israel is richer than Japan, Italy, and South Korea. Not long ago Business
Insider published a report by the Institute for the Study of War showing
that the Israel is the most powerful military force in the Middle East. We
know they have hundreds of nuclear weapons, a sophisticated air force,
drones, and even nuclear weapons-equipped submarines. |
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发帖数: 38600 | 5 Another reason is a very powerful lobby in Washington, AIPAC, that pressures
Members of Congress to focus on Israel’s interests instead of US interests
. Members of Congress should look at our economy, with effectively zero
interest rates, an anemic non-recovery from the 2008 crash, historically low
participation in the work force, and inflation eroding the value of the
dollar and conclude that this might not be the best time to start handing
out billions of dollars in foreign aid. Unfortunately most Members of
Congress find it impossible to say no to special interest groups like AIPAC. |
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发帖数: 38600 | 6 It's a very good time to ask this question, when you see all of the big-
government "neo-con" globalists from the George W. Bush administration
running to support Hillary Clinton in this election.
Donald Trump is running his campaign on a nationalist platform, and he's
attracting support from a lot of people who ask simple questions like this. |
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发帖数: 4796 | 7 美国政府用纳税人的钱花巨款从军火商手里买上好的武器送给以色列用以继续在中东搅
局破坏。这里头谁输谁赢谁赚谁赔一目了然。
：Why Are We Sending $38 Billion to Rich and Powerful Israel?
：http://ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2016/september/19/why-are-we-sending-38-billion-to-rich-and-powerful-israel/
：来到这世上，我就没打算活着回去！
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: It's a very good time to ask this question, when you see all of the big-
: government "neo-con" globalists from the George W. Bush administration
: running to support Hillary Clinton in this election.
: Donald Trump is running his campaign on a nationalist platform, and he's
: attracting support from a lot of people who ask simple questions like this.
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