US should be more picky about where its money goes
I’m not a big fan of foreign aid or giving money to entities like the UN.
It’s not that I don’t think we should help other countries out when we can and if we can, it’s because of two things. One is that we generally can’t. We’re operating on a deficit as it is, which means we’re borrowing money to give to other people. That’s ridiculous.
The other side of the factor is that a lot of these people getting aid don’t actually like us. That’s bad enough when it’s foreign countries. It’s worse when we find out we’re funding terrorist groups.
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