There are 190 countries on earth and the the United States of America donates foreign aid to 150 of them. This is an incredible amount of money that is and has been spent every year for decades. And what do we get in return? I believe it is very little.
Take the case of Pakistan. We give foreign aid in the billions to this country and get escalating lies and deceit. They even hid Usama Bin Ladin within less than a mile from their training camps. Others receive the money and use it for the elite of the country, and we think we are getting some loyalty from it. This is the case in many countries. We are dealt opposing votes in the U.N. by many of these governments, and yet we continue to fund them.
In fact, there are governments that should not receive a dime, yet our Congress does not make any attempt to stop the funding of these countries. Why is that? Are we afraid they may not like us? Does the government really believe when it comes to push to shove, those countries will stand with us? I think not. Our government officals and representatives are blind to the continued bold blatant disrespect from these foreign governments.
Please read this Newsmax.com article for more evidence that we should be lessening our foreign aid and spending it here.
“Of the 10 nations that received the most American foreign aid in fiscal 2011, only one voted for a U.S.-backed draft resolution condemning Iran for human rights abuses.
The resolution, introduced by Canada, cited Iran for abuses including torture, excessive use of the death penalty — including public executions and the executions of minors —violent suppression of political opponents, and discrimination against women and religious minorities.
The resolution passed by a vote of 86 to 32. But among the top 10 recipients of U.S. aid, only Israel voted in favor of the resolution.
Afghanistan and Pakistan, the two biggest aid recipients this year, voted against the resolution. Six other big recipients – Egypt, Jordan, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Kenya, and South Africa — abstained, and Iraq did not vote.
Some countries that declined to support the resolution indicated that they did so due to their opposition to “country-specific” resolutions — critical resolutions focusing on a single country.
But Hillel Neuer, executive director of the monitoring group U.N. Watch, accused those nations of double standards, CNS News reported.
“These countries are being completely hypocritical because they are the same ones who annually sponsor or support 20 one-sided resolutions against Israel in the U.N. General Assembly, having made a virtual cottage industry of passing ‘country-specific’ resolutions against the Jewish state,” he said.
Arab and Muslim countries generally did not support the resolution. But interestingly, Libya and Tunisia — which have new administrations following uprisings in the Arab Spring — both voted in favor of the resolution.
Among the countries opposing it were Russia, China, and India.” (And these countries all have nuclear weapons! We know China and Russia are complicit in Iran's nuclear weapons program.)
Do you think this administration will ever follow up on the resolutions against Iran? If you think so, you may want to read this quote from Obama's book, The Audacity of Hope:
"I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction." Would having a nuclear arsenal be considered a "shift in an ugly direction?"
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