Oh the Humanity, I effing agree with Perry and Newt on something.

I like this line of reasoning. It says foreign aid is almost $50B per year. It would be nice to cut that in half or more, and either buy down our debt, or since I am a Lib, help some people here in the States.



http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57323690-503544/perry-my-foreign-aid-budget-starts-at-zero/

 

So, which one you pick'n in the primary?

 

Bachmaan. I want to see what 'ol batchit crazy can do

 

How much more could be saved via reviewing and slashing payments that the US makes to the UN?

There is no reason for the US to be responsible for 22% of the annual budget of the UN. Shit, there's no reason for it to be located in New York but that's for another conversation.

 

So all you really like is the idea of finding a different way to spend the money we don't have to spend. Reducing the debt makes sense, finding another way to piss away money while increasing the debt doesn't.

 

So, according to Bachmann and Santorum, if the country with their hand out has a nuke, then they must be bought off (in that part of the world). Is that a strategy that has an end?

 

You really must take the college course, LIBERAL 101.

 

I'd like to give the money to crackheads and current welfare recipients.

 

They're getting plenty already.
How about we don't "give" it to anybody.

 

To my knowledge that has never worked before. If you keep bowing to their demands then they will never stop demanding. I still believe in Teddy Roosevelt's idea of speaking softly but carrying a big stick. We have to have a leader, or maybe a policy chiseled in stone for all our leaders, if a country threatens us with military action they had better be smiling broadly while doing so otherwise we will not hesitate to crush them completely. If we did that to one single country it would end all the saber rattling completely.

Is that too harsh?

 

I'll stick with my original post. I get my opinion and my vote, you get yours. So move along, we'll never agree anyway.

 

I also like this reasoning. There is no good reason to be giving money to support countries that are not our friends.

 

Agreed. Make 'em sing for their dinner.

 

It's far from revolutionary; hell, I was saying this two decades ago.


Funny how a recession and record unemployment makes our candidates start professing that we should be taking care of number one like it's a new concept. Perhaps if we'd been thinking this way all along we wouldn't be so far in debt to China and still be the manufacturing capital of the world.

Imagine that - taking care of American interests over profiteering. How innovative.

 

Fear not, you'll get over it.

 

I used to buy my friends, too.

 

So, what happened? You must be lonely now. Eh, decided to make one, huh? They are loyal as hell for about 11 years and that aint too bad.:up:

 

Nah, started looking at the ROI numbers and determined that being an intolerable prick was most cost-effective.

 

Or you graduated from college and didn't need to pay dues anymore.

 

I came to that same conclusion a while back as well. :up: