Washington - America’s budget crisis at home is forcing the first significant cuts in overseas aid in nearly two decades, a retrenchment that officials and advocates say reflects the country’s diminishing ability to influence the world.
As lawmakers scramble to trim the swelling national debt, both the Republican-controlled House and the Democrat-controlled Senate have proposed slashing financing for the State Department and its related aid agencies at a time of desperate humanitarian crises and uncertain political developments. The proposals have raised the specter of deep cuts in food and medicine for Africa, in relief for disaster-affected places like Pakistan and Japan, in political and economic assistance for the new democracies of the Middle East, and even for the Peace Corps.
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We, as a nation shouldn’t be throwing away good money right now as it is. Charity begins at home, here in the good old USA! We need to take care of ourselves and make sure each and every American has 3 meals a day, a place to sleep and good health, before we worry about foreigners, whom all hate us and hate the American way of life. America and American first!
It's about time we quit pouring money in to foreign fire-pits.....
it's about time!!
Hopefully others will step up and fill the void. The Saudis and the Chinese in particular.
pakistan and egypt should be the first ones cut off ....completely!
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