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  • Foreign aid accounts for 2% of our overall budget.

  • @H3532 are you saying that its not true? or that it is true and that it is bullshit

  • 53 underdeveloped, hunger starving, disease suffering, water-limited African countries < 1 apartheid, occupational military regime?

    you must be kidding me. Israel a loyal ally? We are their servant, their shackles they have bound on America cannot be unlocked.

    This is ridiculous how it is continuing to be allowed.

  • Why is America shown in red? We're not a foreign country to ourselves...

  • Get this crap fixed! Vote ron paul

  • It's not that easy as he says. Switzerland for example receives money too because among other things we represent the US in Iran. I'm sure there are plenty of examples for many different countries in the world.

  • And yet the USA only fives 0.3% of GNP compared to three Nordic countries such as Norway which send over 1%. Nice one America with the highest GDP in the world. How selfish.

  • I love how america thinks they run and rule the world...

  • @oakfire12 We don't think that at all you fool.

  • Want to debate foreign aid with no word limit? Start the discussion on bite-sizereality.blogspot.com. It is a blog I made for the discussion and debate of news and politics! I always respond, so do others, but the more people, the better. Check it out and comment on it

  • I couldn't agree more on the redundancy of foreign aid to poorer countries! I have made a *very* frank video outlining the travesty of aid and the never-ending cycle of Africa's economic and political problems. Take a look if you may so wish here: watch?v=EpUaChUNf3E

  • I think it is the principal of the issue, regardless, of what it amounts to in the GDP, why the hell should we give any of them a dime, hell we rebuilt Europe and Japan, after ww2 with Marshall plan, and before you critisize my comment DO THE RESEARCH on what it was. The UN is a cesspit, or was when I was inside it we don't need it here in any shape or form. Funny all these assholes hate us, want to immigrate here, does that make sense?

  • well said! fuck foreign aid! CANCEL IT LIKE A STAMP!

  • The Zeitgeist Movement (TZM) has been showing that we have the ability to generate energy, food, housing, health and education for everyone in the world, while, at the same time, we are able to ELIMINATE OUR ECONOMICAL, SOCIAL & ECOLOGICAL CRISIS along with corruption, poverty, abuse of power, unemployment, social stratification, and other factors that hinder the life and sustainability of the planet and its inhabitants.To know more about it, watch: "Zeitgeist Addendum" - It is on youtube

    :)

    FS

  • It doesn't matter if the amount of foreign aid is less than other expenditures - it shouldn't be happening in the first place.

  • Foreign Aid is Less than a fraction of 1 percent of total GDP.  The internet is making the world dumber. Jesus christ.

  • i thought mox is supposed to be more of a liberal youtube channel, looking at these comments its making me think i was wrong. and i just subscribed......

  • @elijah108 I'm convinced that it's a phoney parody site. It feels a lot like a low rent right wing Drudge type site, you know? Loud, dumb, angry headlines, etc., etc.,...maybe I'm over suspicious, but this seems like it's not really intended to advance liberal causes. I think its meant to make liberals look dumb. Screaming about Ron Paul and such. Anyone who's a true liberal, and has half a brain, could care less about Ron Paul and his destined to lose ideological crusade. I don't trust it.

  • America borrows money & pays interest on that money just to GIVE it away to foreign countries most of which don't even like us! American citizens are told that they have to sacrifice & we have to give up our 'entitlement's' that we've paid into & pay higher taxes. What is wrong with this country? Why aren't we the people standing up & DEMANDING that our elected politicians stop this crap? Come on, people! WAKE UP & DEMAND that this practice STOP! It's just about the dumbest thing I've heard!

  • @MrCMFields Close. Thumbs up to your comments. IMO: The first is all of the genocide transpiring through many avenues. The 2nd dumbest thing is the financial terrorism being allowed to take place in this country, in this world. The 3rd is that people just sit around griping never doing a thing about it nor even indicating what they are willing to do to make the insanity end. Unless and until you can appreciate the deliberate grand plan, no amount of verbal complaining is going to matter.

  • Did this guy actually get elected?

  • Kick the UN out of this country. People have pretty much had it with this save the world political correctness crap! It was a phase that brought huge problems to our nation. We send money to these countries so we can manipulate them. Build a base in Syria? They'll throw a fit if we do that, however, if we give them 70 million dollars they'll shut up! It's all about power and control. Screw the world! Isolation is the only way for the world doesn't care for us anymore anyway!

  • its hard to believe these texas cretins like poe dont have to practice every day with a voice coach to sound as stupid as possible. do us all a favor and secede already, you texans have done enough damage to the country to last 100 years.

  • Is this guy some fucking plumber or truck driver who wandered into the house?

    Jesus fucking Christ, you should all be embarrassed.

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  • @gabiotta Were young yet, don't be so impatient. A young country, mostly comprised of lazy morons who'd rather not know. Give us time.

  • @Ptinski

    That's the problem though, isn't it?

    There might not be enough time.

  • @gabiotta SURE it's a problem that most people are asleep in front of the TV, beer in hand spilling on the floor, complete lazy morons who have no idea how bad things are. They've been bad before. We've been in messes like this, we've come out worse, but keep going - as I say, we're learning. Those of us who care, that is. As for not having enough time, it's my worst fear. I agree with you completely and perhaps for the first time - in hard times - we may become extinct as a world society.

  • WELCOME TO THE NEWEST THIRD-WORLD COUNTRY: USA, Inc.

  • Why are all these Texan congressmen so well spoken, down to Earth, and intelligent seeming but the Texan we got last was Bush?

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  • Amazing speech!!!

  • It's time to cut foreign aid, end the Feds, bring the troops home, and defend our borders not borders in the middle east. Our allegiance should be to the USA and the US tax payer not to the UN, NATO or AIPAC! When Americans are starving in the streets living in FEMA tents then we will cut aid! Presently, their are Americans living in shelters, cars, without food, medicine, but heck keep sending aid! RON PAUL 2012 or prepare to set up camp!

  • I'm saying we need to stop overpopulation

  • I'm saying being raped is bad and having alot of children in general is

  • he looks like odo from star trek.

  • It's advantageous to help Canada militarily. We in Canada helped the US militarily

  • Stop having so many kids. Close your legs. Unless your raped you have no excuse to keep haivng kids

  • @MaddDogg81 You make it sound like women are the reason for our debt crisis because they're able to bear children - alone according to you. As for the rape remark, what makes you think it's a good reason to have the child? BTW "welfare mother" is a tired, inaccurate over-abused phrase.

  • even has a map with colors on it for the less educated who learn ebonics and Obama math

  • @Marcus29fan And even for the less educated who learn euronics and Bush math, you know, the fuzzy kind.

  • @Marcus29fan Wow, racism. Trailer trash white people don't speak ebonics, and they're just as--if not more--ignorant as undereducated black people in america. Equality, bitch.

  • what a douchebag.

  • @mhbridges Try to engage the issues and refrain from name calling as it is a petty tactic of persuasion. Okay, take two!

  • "Taxpayer money" given to other countries ?

    What about taxpayer DEBT given to other countries ? ! ?

    More than 4 out of every ten dollars D.C. spends . . . every hour, every day, every week, every month . . . is MORE UNAFFORDABLE DEBT.

  • F ing pathetc. Not only do we do this, but we also give away billions to illegal vermin to our country and their anchor babis.

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  • @hopey567 We provide a lot of cost free training for the Irish National Guardsmen.

  • How about some aid for our own country god damnit!  everyday, my blood boils more and more just watching it all crumble, crumble, crumble......

  • no wonder we're broke. When's the revolution going to kick off?

  • >at first he's making good points

    >cites fox news

    oshit what are you doing, nigger

  • Is most "aid" a bribe on behalf of American business interests, indirect subsidies of their business. Get their own armies to protect their investments. If we love the Jews we should have given them all of New Mexico after World War II. no, we rammed them down their Semitic-Arab cousins throats. Jews lost all claim to the "Holy Land" in 70AD when the Roman Emperor was so pissed, he dispersed them to the four corners of the Roman Empire.

  • typical American hypocrite: sending aid abroad they mind , but 734 military bases all over the world are ok.

  • End ALL foreign aid! We're borrowing money from foreign countries to give to foreign countries? Just how stupid are we? You think that people will hate us even more than they already do if we DON'T send them money? We're in a budget crisis! WTF!!!

  • Ven-zu-eh-la!

  • The only reason that I think that we should keep sending money to Israel is because they vote with the U.S. 90% of the time in U.N. sessions. Whether anyone wants to believe it or not, they are the United State's most loyal ally. The rest of the countries we send aid to vote against us 90% of the time, albeit Russia votes with us 25% of the time. We aren't gaining any allies in this, they hate us and our policies, so stop forking the money over.

  • @neon3188 I vote that both our countries leave the UN, the UN has caused so many problems for both our countries its unbelievable, and we pay them $20 billion a year for this garbage.

  • @GunsOfThePhoenix That'd probably be best. They really just use the U.S. and Britain to do the dirty work. Fighting wars and whatnot. We hand out money to these 3rd world countries to build them them up whilst we bankrupt ourselves to China who already has its eyes set on Libyan oil after refusing to get involved with the revolution over there. We just need to back off everything. I don't think we ought to rebuild what we blow up either until whoever brought down the twin towers pays for them.

  • @neon3188 Now they are looking away from the US and the UK and are looking the the rest of Europe and S. Africa to do its dirty work.

  • @GunsOfThePhoenix Well the U.S. doesn't have the money for that sort of stuff. I figure we'll end up going to war with China within the next ten years over our debt crisis. That one will be ugly to put it lightly.

  • @neon3188 I don't think either China or USA, Inc can afford to start a war. China stopped paying our debts and won't touch us. I'm thinking it'll be Pakistan.  You make one good point though - money is the reason countries go to war in the first place.

  • @Ptinski Pakistan will kiss our butts, so long as we continue to fork over the cash. I personally think that they ought to cut off aid to them asap. Bin Laden was hiding in a compound for 5 years half a mile from the Pakistan military academy...That's like hiding half a mile from West Point. It's ridiculous to pay off these frienemies. I do see U.S./Chinese relations going down fast though.

  • @neon3188 Try telling that to the survivors of the USS Liberty. A "most loyal ally" doesn't perform an all-out attack on an ally's clearly-marked and identifiable ship.

  • @neon3188 We shouldn't even be in the UN. We have too much federal government. Why have world government? The UN should not be able to override our US Constitution. End all foreign aid. This actually makes Israel safer because we won't be sending 7x the money to the enemies of Israel than we give to Israel. Vote Ron Paul for president 2012!

  • @neon3188 are u kidding? They make us go to war more than anyother nation. Israel had "terrorism" bc they invaded a territory that was no longer theirs (SEE JEWISH EXILE) ... their problem has become our problem BECAUSE OF THE VERY REASON THE Y GET MONEY FROM US. There was an article in the guardian about the 911 attacks and those responsible said that it was specifically bc of America's support of so-called Zionism which couldn't be farther removed from Judaism.

  • @neon3188 Fuck Israel too.

  • @neon3188 Israel is an enemy of the USA. They murdered more American military on the USS Liberty than Al Quada did on the USS Cole. NOW, you can praise a Country that murders American military.... not me... not Americans who support Americans

    in the military.

  • i couldnt agree more, the uk is in the same situation. we give over a billion

    £s of tax payers money to the Sudan this year alone, this little bankrupt country of ours.

  • More money goes to Israel, not even including jewish theft of our nation, than any other.

    DUMP ISRAEL!

  • All the money USA is giving as aid or whatever you call it goes to corrupted politicians,dictators and future terrorist groups.

  • GODDAMN he is so right! 

  • why do we borrow from China, then give the money away and expect our Americans to be working until 80 so they can pay it back? Before we cut any benefits of Americans we need to cut off foreign aid. Its pretty damn simple.

  • I think the Republicans need to realize that their best chances of beating Obama are with Ron Paul. He is fiscally conservative-which appeals to the right, but also defends the rights of individuals which appeals to the left because of his policy on the wars and gay rights. He is just what this country needs right now. Remember, Ronald Reagan ran 3 times before being elected. This is Ron Paul's year-despite what the media says.

  • God Bless Texas & God Bless Judge Ted Poe!

  • .

    AND ISRAEL IS THE BIGGEST PIECE OF TERRORIST-PARASITE SHIT OF ALL 192.

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    BURDEN TO THE ENTIRE PLANET.

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  • 73 ASSHOLES

  • (Wildly applauding!!!!!)

  • Good question!!! Why are we supporting all these countries, many of them who have money of their own and most of them who hate us?? No wonder Americans, the ones who are actually working, work until May just to pay their taxes every year. I say, bring our troops home, bring our money home, bring our factories home, guard our own borders with said troops, support Israel and let the rest of the world take care of themselves; I'm tired of supporting all these countries who hate us to begin with!

  • @UtubeKarlly You aren't supporting these countries, in fact you're hurting a lot of them by giving this 'foreign aid' to the dictators that run the country. Its simple. Trust me, if this money actually made it to the people it would have made a significant progress, after all, the US dollar is one of the strongest currencies, converting a 100 million dollars to Yan would have an effect as much as a billion would have an effect in the US.

  • Is its [guns] purpose for hunting ...or collecting ...for sport ...or for self-defense against criminals? NO!

    Its sole purpose is to secure an individual's right for self-defense against government. "It" is the Second Amendment.

    It is quite clear from history and the debates surrounding the adoption of the Second Amendment that the present-day debate does not focus on the proper principle underlying that amendment - protection against governmental tyranny.

  • This is funny.

    Cut the foreign aid that goes to some poor African country that could use it to help their impoverished and poor, but DON'T cut military and economic aid to a prosperous, wealthy country like Israel.

    This dude is just blowing smoke. I doubt he's vote to cut the Bush tax cuts, or go after America's bloated military budget.

  • Ugh sorry I know this has nothing to do with his point, but the Mercator projection map he is using to illustrate his point just bugs me so much. It's soooo wrong.

  • Correction- There are 192 nations that are members of the United Nations, there are 203 sovereign states.

  • Jack Kemp, when testifying before a special committee who was to determine how the Social Security "surplus" was to be spent, made an astounding statement. Perhaps he wasn't aware that he was on C-SPAN when he said, "The job of the US government is 'wealth redistribution' ". Silly me. I guess that I had missed reading that in our Constitution. The government needs to get back to what they were ordered to do in the beginning... very little...and stay out of the business of promoting Marxism.

  • Yep, that's my congress critter. Why ain't he doing something useful like getting gubmint the hell outa the school bidness?

  • vote tea party 2012 and lets take back america.

  • @999Thip ...Ron Paul is the only republican candidate who wants to end foreign aid and save taxpayer money.

  • @ImInCommand THEN GOD BLESS RON PAUL

  • @999Thip Seriously? Have you been doing any research at all? or are you still asleep?

    How long do you honestly think Ron Paul would last in office?

    Don't you remember what happened to the last President that tried to end the Federal Reserve?

    Both Republicans and Democrats are paid off by corporations, this entire government is in FULL tyranny, WAKE UP and realize how biblical all this is. There will never be another President in office working for the people. Bush, Obama, Paul = same agenda.

  • @kobedarott very easy to rag on me,

    then whats the answer??

    whats your plan ?

  • @999Thip Sorry, didn't mean to put it that harshly. I do not have an answer to that question other than put all your heart and faith in Christ, This world is not going to last at this rate.

    Especially after researching Bohemian Grove, builderberg Group and the true agenda of the United nations.

    It's just going to keep getting worse, we might not even have much to worry about if the nuclear power plants in the Missouri River flood.

  • @kobedarott you are correct, our faith should be in jesus christ and not man..

    its hard being in this world., its en effort taken control of ones thoughts.,

    but its well worth it..

    it seems when we take our eyes off jesus, problems arise

  • @999Thip Yea right, look at the record and you will see its most of the people the tea party supports that created the problems to begin with.

  • @clborg88 Ok, so I see that again we are back to not just slandering, yelling and making stuff up rather than actually factually refuting my original statements or giving empirical evidence as to the supposed-truth of your claims. But since you apparently believe the Holocaust never happens, I guess I have to expect that you wouldn't actually make any sense, since for one to believe that garbage it would take living in a fantasy world of denial. Good luck with that... I'll opt for reality.

  • just so everyone knows, that congressman is talking to mostly empty chairs, most of congress doesn't even show up to work unless there is a highly publicized vote taking place.

  • What a retard, you send the money to all those countries because of the dollar fraud.

    because of the global monetary dictatorship US and their allies. US dont give aid, the dollar is based on what? He makes it look like the aid actually comes from WORK wich it doesnt.

  • The Empire.

  • What all those Israel-lobby - bribed "american" politicians don't understand is that sooner or later the american people will pay the bill for their unjust support of that terrorstate Israel.

    A price that surely will be much higher than 9/11 next time.

    But of course, spineless careerists don't care, jewish money in the pocket and their media support makes those ignorants so relaxed that they forget that nothing is for free. Well, as long as likely others will have to pay the price, isn't it?

  • @Saqueig - Israel a "terror state"?! Let me guess; you think Hezzbolah and Hamas are wonderful, peace-loving "states" that are just being slandered by Israel? Please... they are terrorist organizations if there ever was one! And before you start screaming about Israel keeping "palestinians from having a country", remember that prior to '67, they weren't Palestinians! They were Jordainians, Eygptians & Syrians. It's a false argument. Stop polluting our world with your Jew-bashing.

  • @FirearmsFreak - The people in Gaza ARE Palestinians. At one point they were under an Egyptian protectorate but they were NEVER Egyptians...Visit there - You will see..Many people were born and raised in Gaza - NOT Jordan, Egypt or Syria.

  • @FirearmsFreak Israel murdered 34 American military, maimed another 173 in a terror attack against the US Navy and therefore the USA.. Al Quada murdered and wounded less than 1/2 that attacking the USS Cole. Why Americans support a foreign nation murdering American military and THEN send them billions of dollars as a reward is more than a puzzlement... BUT, there are Americans who hate the US military that much!!!

  • @FirearmsFreak Not only that but, most of that land belonged to the original Ottoman empire. So unless you are an original Ottoman decedent like I am, those groups have no right to that land.

  • @FirearmsFreak ... speaking of 1967 your friends the Israelis murdered & maimed American military.. how about you come back when you decide Israel murdering American military is NOT what friends do ... you are aiding and abetting an enemy of American military.. oh, I know you must also support Israel & Pollard.. Nice display of American Zionism against American

  • Stop aid to Pakistan!!! They're using it against you!!

  • @JaiHindArbhav Stop giving money to the US BANKS, THEY are using it against YOU and the rest of the world. They are the ones truly pushing TERROR, the core. Let's not jest at the scars of others while dying of wounds.

  • I've been saying this for years. I sure hope the congress will do something about this now. I hate them cutting aid to our seniors to give money to all our enemies.

    How rediculous is that?

  • Lol. I also heard that America provided aid and military support to al mujaheddin which is now known as al Qaeda. I agree with this man; stop your foreign aid policy ASAP.

  • This guy is an idiot..........."lets give all our money to Israel and none to the rest of the world".............get some knowledge and stop talkin

  • As if China receives foreign aid, China has industrialized to greatness and you know what they did it on their own, they didn't get any outside help from the USA or Europe, China has been a well developed country for a long time now and their socialist government has been far more effective at getting things done rather than the un supportive American government.

  • Israel- yeah its ok. Stupid jew...

  • Hear, hear!

  • If a country wants to receive foreign aid it should not be free, it should be like a loan, that they need to pay back within an allotted time frame, that can be collected whether they like it or not, if they can't pay then they better have some collateral ready whether it is money or resources. If they don't than we can oust them and they will be ineligible to receive foreign aid ever again. their embassy will also be removed and their alliance invalidated.

  • that foreign aid is NOT free!!!! America has military and political control over most of those country!

  • Damn, there it is... Now if they'll just fix it.

  • Arn't we at war with Pakistain?Didn't President Bush declair war on the terriorists and anyone who harbors them?This I believe is why we are in Afghanistan .We are funding the weapons that wound and kill our own.End all funding now,bring troops home to secure our borders and deploy our fine military when necessary.

  • Wow, the first country Poe wants to support is Israel? If anyone is listening in Congress please keep your hands off of my pay check. And, when the final amount for foreign aid becomes public I will do the math, divide it up, and take a tax deduction because as we all know it's considered a donation!

  • Notice how this Zionist Fuck doesn't talk about the THREE TRILLION DOLLARS that we gave to Israel FOR FREE.

  • I have a condition of US aid to Pakistan. Under no!! condition should USA give aid to Pakistan or any foreign country, corporation, bank or individual.

  • Funny, I didn't know Alaska was a country

  • This guy is either a genuine retard in the world of corrupt politics (which is mostly working with big greedy business interests) or a smoke screen on display to further BS the public. Sounds kind of cool what he's saying on the surface but look deeper my friends and you'll know why most of these things are happening - and believe me, for the most part, I don't think they should be happening at all. Most Americans should really be afforded the time and inspiration to do the proper homework.

  • @lagatuda unless you are talking about the fact we have put a lot of these people in charge of these countries is there something else I should be searching for? I am not being a smart ass here. I am trying to educate myself here.

  • What a lunatic this is the reason the world is so screwed up, lets give the rapers and murders the zionist money. The reason they hate us is because we are ones that install these dictators that screw the people of egypt,Iraq, Lybia, syria, palestine.Wake the F up they do not hate us because of religous beliefs they hate us because we supply these dictactors with the money and weapons to kill their women and children.

  • What is the aid for? Humanitarian efforts, education? Doubtful in my opinion.  Poe would have made a stronger argument to have cited the purpose of the aid... if that is information that is available...again, I have my doubts.

  • He made clear that aid to Israel is a good thing! He is very afraid of the zionists and he knows that they can cut his career down any time they want.

  • @Moonlitknight42 Israel is our strongest most loyal ally. Many who fear Zionist, are not with the wisdom that the history of Israel reveals. They do not believe that supporting Israel provides a hedge of protection around those who stand with Israel. We now have a government, for who knows why, is with Islamic sympathizers (oil and a muslim president). It is dangerous to be divided as we are and as spared out as we are.

  • @nivekyaj Israel will take over the US when they go broke. They already have control of the media, the financial system and the government. Never forget what their bible say, they are god's chosen people, the rest of the world are only lower life forms and slaves.

  • @Moonlitknight42 Religion was created by dictators that wished to keep their people in line. All religion is invalid in my mind.

  • dude, i'm with this guy!!!

  • oops didnt mean to double post that sorry

  • 62 dislikes.....62. It's ashame that we have created a society that people so effin retarded can exist. My gawd I hope those 62 people dont reproduce.

  • anyone tired of waiting for y2k yet? a lot of policies were made on the presumption that most people were waiting for the rapture. its a short term way of looking at the world and needs to be eliminated. until it is there will be "NO CHANGE!"

  • @indianprince04....You are an idiot. Don't you get it? If we kept American money in America, just maybe there wouldn't be as many "city slums". Can you think of how it would also help automakers and re-set bank policies? I can. If you don't get it, then you need to learn more about the economy. Don't open your mouth again unless you have something intellegent to say.

  • I'd rather send my money overseas rather than giving it to failed automakers and banks, and inner city slums.

  • Israel! Why Israel! Hey. why not just give em all guns. it's not real money anyway. or drop the debt most o the world apparently owes the IMF.

    Or let's just fuck em up with depleted uranium!....oh yeah..we already do that!

  • So, we’re paying taxes to other countries too, huh? Doesn’t sound like we owe anything to any country. The debt to China probably wouldn’t even exist had money been properly allocated. Perhaps we ought to declare all previous and forthcoming “aid” to China as debt payment. It’s money all the same, the name is just different. It doesn’t take a mathematician to understand that the debt to China should systematically decrease with each deposit.

  • How could ANYONE vote a "dislike" on this video? (shaking my head)

  • This is good….. and from TEXAS 

  • What is the BOTTOM LINE ON THE CHECK WE WRITE? TEAR THE CHECK UP. REPEAL THE FOREIGN AID BILL. STOP THE MADNESS, STOP THE LUNACY. PUT THE LUNATICS BACK IN THE ASYLUM AND TAKE AWAY HIS GAVEL. STOP YIELDING TO OBAMMER'S RANSOM DEMANDS AND HOSTAGE TACTICS

  • I am interested in Senator Poe's statement concerning "this is the way the RULE works". DOES ANYONE KNOW WHAT "RULE" HE IS REFERRING TO? OR IS this something some LIBERAL idiot in CON-gress came up with and is not part of our Constitution. Was it required reading for Government 101 and I missed the little primer "RULES FOR FOREIGN AID AND TO FUND OUR ENEMIES".

  • So many American have a knee jerk reaction when it comes to foreign aid, to shut it off, when shutting it off will in some cases be against our own interests. The speaker in the video states that most people in Egypt hate us. The reason we give Egypt aid is not to buy their love, it is because it is part of the deal we struck with them years ago regarding how they treat Israel. A lot of the money we spend on foreign aid is a great investment. Although I do agree that it needs separate votes.

  • This is the CLASSIC example of how THEY RUN THIS COUNTRY! and we wonder why were in deep shit! Just classic.......

  • aid is used in most cases to influence the other countries to do something for us. quid-pro-quo. don't be so naive.

  • With whom would this suggestion not make sense. Maybe our officials should start paying attention to this dilemma with more effort applied without party finger pointing for blame. The first two comments seemed to be on the mark, especially the second one (in my mind). I do hear that (at least) some lobbying causes our government's willingness to award other countries bribe monies to other countries in order to help our corporations to succeed financially (even they probably outsource).

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  • Its not aid its bribery.

  • All of our hard-earned dollars should remain right here in America.

  • america dont complain there is so much foreign aid due to economic domination where really buying everyone off.plus this is nothing due to how much we control and steal from these countries there poor because of us its all bullshit.

  • @TheGloryfighter1000

    Why don't you try going and living in some of these countries before you pass judgement on the US. Most of these countries are poor because of their own politicians robbing them blind. The majority of our foreign aid goes straight into foreign politician's bank accounts. The only aid that is effective is grassroots, on the ground, small focused efforts. Any money the US sends overseas to help those in need never gets past the crooks

  • @68shangy um no sir i dont think you have the right political view as a educated right minded person should have figures..In fact i have seen the life outside this country i live minutes from mexico and i have been apart of helping programs for the needy there.I think you should dig deep and see that the cia has mass influence in specially all latin american countries its called the latin take over. And the bush administration that is in part of the federal reserve funnel ops to these CONTINUED.

  • @68shangy to these countries and know where the money is going we have the best secret agency in the world we own the banks in fact its a fact that the corrupt politicians in latin america couldnt even wash the money or use it with out OUR system.Your talking about trillions of dollors here these are no petty criminals.In fact there was a artical that came out that 90 percent of the drug markets money was washed in a usa bank in califnornia that is a cia center.CIA causes world dominance !!!!!

  • @TheGloryfighter1000 Partly agree on latin A. I lived in Honduras for 2 years and traveled most of Latin A. Currently I live in Africa and the story here is much diff. However, what you are speaking of are direct initiatives operated by our intel agencies. What the congressman was talking about was aid given to these countries blindly. The majority of aid is lumped into one pool that congress votes on. They have no idea where it is truly going. The misuse of aid in Africa is appalling.

  • Great speech!  I agree!

  • America has a duty to help foreign countries with literally no means of help. We have the the ability to do this because even if it's "not our problem", we are still held responsible because we have the ability to help. But im only talking about poor 3rd world countries owned by cruel dictators... idk why in hells fuck were dumping money to all these other countries who are fine without us... makes no sense

  • Too bad that Mr Poe doesn't run for the Oval Office

  • The USA , in some cases is trying to buy friendship, while some countries that hate us are laughing at us and spending our tax dollars. Do you think that this is wrong? I sure do.

  • @DONGOE I couldn't agree more!

  • Lots of little cuts add up to big cuts. I totally agree with Ted Poe

  • Here's how it works - A large global corporation - for example - Exxon - wants to drill in a foreign country but they have a problem. The dictator in that country wants a 100 million dollar bribe for drilling rights. So, to save money, Exxon bribes 10 million dollars worth of congressmen - and the congressmen sends 100 million in "foreign aid" to the dictator. Exxon gets to drill and sell the oil to China or Japan. Now that you know how it works -- don't you feel better ???

  • @thunder1road correct thats part of the problem in reality america is a big fuckin ponzi scam its almost sick to hear!

  • @thunder1road ...its the "american way" dont ya know? its pathetic, and stupid and corrupt and we as a people should be ashamed we let them do it under our own nose. we have no one to blame for ourselves, we are too greedy to begin with, and too lazy to unify for any one cause, and we are too happy to simply be content by sitting in front of our screens commenting on the shit and feel like weve 'done our part'. our forefathers would be ashamed.