You know... I don't think you have considered the possiblity (fact?) that alot of that 'foreign aid' is used as 'incentives' to get other nations to do what the US wants... (ie: You do that for us, we will give you this in return.)
And dubbing foreign aid as welfare isn't exactly fair either.
You have to understand... World Stability is in the US's favour. You *could* flip everyone the bird and tell them to go f themselves... but at the end of the day the resulting world instability would likely end up hurting the US significantly more than you might think.
Bottom line: I'm sure they've run their Cost/Benefit analysies and aren't shelling out more cash in foreign aid than what it's bringing back into (or doing for) the US (directly or indirectly).
On top of all this... we have no idea how far reaching and broad a term 'foreign aid' is and what it entails... could be a great place to hide things you dont want others to see in the budget.
airspirit... some of your (of-base?) opinions/generalisations deeply trouble me... (Rhetorical:) Just what group of people don't you "have issues with" (hate?) and how exclusive is that group?
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