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| Grasshopper:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on August 24, 2005, 08:52:26 am --- So when do they get to the point that they send out trillions in foreign aid, only to be have people spit in their face as they reach out to grab the cash? Isolationism! --- End quote --- That's a pretty naive point of view. Almost all US aid has strings attached and is thus not really aid at all, but payment for favours. Anyway, if isolationism also means that the US will refrain from screwing the third words through the 'free' trade system, meddling in the affairs of other nations, and starting wars with the aim of securing a cheap supply of oil, then I think most countries would regard the loss of 'aid' as a price well worth paying. |
| ChadTower:
--- Quote from: Grasshopper on August 24, 2005, 09:44:55 am ---That's a pretty naive point of view. Almost all US aid has strings attached and is thus not really aid at all, but payment for favours. --- End quote --- Uh, yeah, that's what happens when someone gives you money. When was the last time someone handed you a large sum of money and didn't want anything in return? |
| Stingray:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on August 24, 2005, 09:45:47 am --- --- Quote from: Grasshopper on August 24, 2005, 09:44:55 am ---That's a pretty naive point of view. Almost all US aid has strings attached and is thus not really aid at all, but payment for favours. --- End quote --- Uh, yeah, that's what happens when someone gives you money. When was the last time someone handed you a large sum of money and didn't want anything in return? --- End quote --- Not that long ago, but I was wearing a ski mask and holding a gun at the time. -S |
| Grasshopper:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on August 24, 2005, 09:45:47 am --- --- Quote from: Grasshopper on August 24, 2005, 09:44:55 am ---That's a pretty naive point of view. Almost all US aid has strings attached and is thus not really aid at all, but payment for favours. --- End quote --- Uh, yeah, that's what happens when someone gives you money. When was the last time someone handed you a large sum of money and didn't want anything in return? --- End quote --- Err, it's called charity. It's a concept you might not be familiar with. |
| ChadTower:
I am intimately familiar with charity. I donate a much larger portion of my income to charity than most people I know and I am the only person I know that donates time. There is a difference between sending off a few hundred dollars and sending off a few trillion. At some point, the line crosses from charity to wanting control over how your donated funds are used. I mean, is telling them NOT to fund militias and to ACTUALLY feed people with our money so much to ask? |
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