Government Insight

[Made in the USA]

Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer of money
from poor people in rich countries to rich people in
poor countries.

[jeezeweeze]

You know it might be a good idea to shut off all foreign aid for awhile until we get our house in order.

We wont be any good to anybody if we turn to a 3rd world country. I think America is still considered the most generous nation.

I dunno just seems to me you can't give if you ain't got.

I try to be generous when I can. Which isn't often enough. But I have only me to take care of me.... So I wonder if America is ever in a bind, would there be foreign aid from other nations to help us.


Things that make you go hmmmmmmm.

[Army_of_One]

Originally Posted by jeezeweeze

You know it might be a good idea to shut off all foreign aid for awhile until we get our house in order.

We wont be any good to anybody if we turn to a 3rd world country. I think America is still considered the most generous nation.

I dunno just seems to me you can't give if you ain't got.

I try to be generous when I can. Which isn't often enough. But I have only me to take care of me.... So I wonder if America is ever in a bind, would there be foreign aid from other nations to help us.


Things that make you go hmmmmmmm.

Our foreign aid buys alot of "influence" that is necessary to keep some semblence of order in the world. It would be nice to have an isolationist attitude and forget about what's going on in the world but the bottom line is we are a leader and should help others...that's what we do. Although we have poverty in the U.S. at LEAST here you have the CHANCE to succeed...some just choose to do otherwise....There are people in a lot of places that would give their left leg to have the chance that those have and blow here in the U.S.

[Made in the USA]

I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity
is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up
by the handle.

[jeezeweeze]

Originally Posted by Army_of_One

Our foreign aid buys alot of "influence" that is necessary to keep some semblence of order in the world. It would be nice to have an isolationist attitude and forget about what's going on in the world but the bottom line is we are a leader and should help others...that's what we do. Although we have poverty in the U.S. at LEAST here you have the CHANCE to succeed...some just choose to do otherwise....There are people in a lot of places that would give their left leg to have the chance that those have and blow here in the U.S.

You know, sometimes I just don't understand. Its not about having an isolationist attitude, and its not about poverty in the US.

Lets say you are helping a lot of folks in your neighborhood. They get steady money from you because you are a generous soul. They depend on that money and you know it. That's why you help. You know that without that help some of those folks might get hungry.

Then there is huge emergency in your household. Its been one thing after another for awhile and it has stacked up so much you have no choice but to
back off your generosity.

Its gonna take a lot of money for some period of time to get back on your feet. You tell the folks that your generosity has almost bankrupted you and your family, and you have been borrowing money from folks in other neighborhoods just to make sure they have some semblance of normalcy. If they can just bare with you for a little while hopefully soon, you will begin to recover and can resume what you were doing.

Why is running a country any different than running a large corporation ? Ford is having to take drastic measures to stay afloat.

We are all about capitalism and successful corps have to trim their budgets or else.


http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/25/bu...l?ref=business



Any way I am just blatthering now ....

[Made in the USA]

"If you don't read the newspaper, you are uninformed,
if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed."

[Army_of_One]

Originally Posted by jeezeweeze

Ford is having to take drastic measures to stay afloat. .

They should try something really off the wall.......Make a good, dependable product on a regular basis. They have one or two cars in the top sellers but most aren't....if you make an inferior product you are going to lose money...

[K C Muffin]

especially since we have so many affordable alternatives.

[Army_of_One]

Originally Posted by jeezeweeze

You know, sometimes I just don't understand. Its not about having an isolationist attitude, and its not about poverty in the US.

Lets say you are helping a lot of folks in your neighborhood. They get steady money from you because you are a generous soul. They depend on that money and you know it. That's why you help. You know that without that help some of those folks might get hungry.

Then there is huge emergency in your household. Its been one thing after another for awhile and it has stacked up so much you have no choice but to
back off your generosity.

Its gonna take a lot of money for some period of time to get back on your feet. You tell the folks that your generosity has almost bankrupted you and your family, and you have been borrowing money from folks in other neighborhoods just to make sure they have some semblance of normalcy. If they can just bare with you for a little while hopefully soon, you will begin to recover and can resume what you were doing.

If you want to worry about helping people maybe we could cut out some of the earmarks that we waste money on. Foreign aid is necessary and in some cases a good investment. In other cases it's a waste just like a lot of the earmarks.

[Bubba]

Originally Posted by Army_of_One

If you want to worry about helping people maybe we could cut out some of the earmarks that we waste money on. Foreign aid is necessary and in some cases a good investment. In other cases it's a waste just like a lot of the earmarks.

Earmarks=Pork


Lobbyists should be outlawed, and the line item veto should become a law!