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Stop Sending Taxpayers' Money to the World

Uncle Sam sends billions of dollars in foreign aid to various countries around the world, trying to effect policy, but usually with either little effect or adverse consequences.  It's about time that our nation saved money and focused on our own domestic concerns by staying out of other nation's affairs, conflicts and entanglements, by and large.  When President George Washington said the United States should stay out of foreign entanglements, some may say that seems quaint in 2014, but "quaint" sounds sensible in today's hodgepodge of international messes, and the best foreign policy we could have.

Post-script:  If elected, I will sponsor a bill to limit all foreign aid to all other countries to nothing other than humanitarian aid and limited to a single billion dollars, in aggregate, in any one annual budget period, although waivers could be allowed under this bill for economic or defense purposes under strict circumstances, extreme emergencies, and a simple majority vote in the House of Representatives and the Senate, though still, except for a super-majority vote, must remain within the one billion dollar aggregate spending limit.  A 2/3 majority in the House and Senate could approve increased amounts for waivers, but the increase could be no more than 50% of the original overall funding mandate.  If enacted, 1.5 billion dollars would be the absolute most that could be spent on foreign aid in a year, which would be a huge reduction in current expenditures for foreign aid, a fairly big slice of the overall budget.

The United States should stop arming the wars of foreigners.

Time for America to turn inward.

[Published on Fair Commons under a different title on 7/14/14; revised on 7/26/14.]

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