I can give you more than one reason. The Marshall Plan kicked over billions to Europe for reconstruction which ensured securing a trading partner that has returned, and I haven’t googled just how much, but I’d hazard a guess that it’s between $15-20 trillion. . . Our government investments in Mexico, Central, and South America have resulted in increased standards of living which has increased in trade. We’ve almost totally locked down these countries as trading partners through diplomacy and aid. In other words, we probably scored another $15 trillion in aid because of these government programs.
Fat lot of good it did us when the deficit is now in the double-digit trillions.
How much more money would we have netted had our politicians used the money to pay down the deficit, causing us to pay that much less on the interest maintenance thereof over the years?
The budget for foreign aid is about 1% of annual federal budget. The deficit has skyrocketed because the 1% and corporate sectors have our politicians locked down and avoid paying their fair share.
Look. I’d like to pay off the deficit, but no one wants more taxes to pay it down. So I don’t know what to tell you on that matter.
Don’t you think all those trade dollars secured through good policy and aid were worth it? Instead of fighting, we’ve pumped billions of people full of slop and entertain thanks to our aid and resultant trade deals.
- Doc
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Australia gives the US the right to have a listening base in Pine Gap..
I visited Alice Springs back in, shoot, ‘04? ‘05? It was surprisingly well developed; it had all the amenities of a 30-40k town in the US - they even opened a university right before we got there, it was pretty dope. Pretty much everyone in the town that wasn’t part of the service sector was working at Pine Gap, heh. Also, cold as “F” in July.
Pine Gap was cool, though. I swear half the time I was in service I thought I was the NPC character in everyone else’s lives - the Forrest Gump of military intelligence.
If we don't aid Taiwan, China will target Japan next, . . .
No it won’t. Japan was never part of China, and / so China has no claim on it.
Honestly, Dr. Shades, do you seriously believe that the mere fact that Japan was never part of China, will deter China from wishing to target Japan as well?
Dr.Shades wrote:
Gadianton wrote:. . . Kim Jong has a green light to bomb South Korea, . . .
I’m sure you’re only joking by this point, but the two concepts are unrelated.
Do you really believe that Kim Jong Un would hesitate to bomb South Korea if he thought he could get away with it and thereby add it to his domain? He might hesitate to use nuclear bombs to do it, because he might not want a major part of his domain to be an uninhabitable nuclear wasteland, but do you have any doubt that he would use conventional weapons to subjugate South Korea if he thought there was any reasonable chance that the USA/South Korea partnership could or would not effectively deter him from doing so?
No precept or claim is more suspect or more likely to be false than one that can only be supported by invoking the claim of Divine authority for it--no matter who or what claims such authority.
No it won’t. Japan was never part of China, and / so China has no claim on it.
Honestly, Dr. Shades, do you seriously believe that the mere fact that Japan was never part of China, will deter China from wishing to target Japan as well?
Yes.
I’m sure you’re only joking by this point, but the two concepts are unrelated.
Do you really believe that Kim Jong Un would hesitate to bomb South Korea if he thought he could get away with it and thereby add it to his domain?
Perhaps he wouldn't, but China's designs on Taiwan are unrelated to what goes on in Kim Jong Un's mind.
