Josh_Martin said

Mikeofdecrepitude said

Josh_Martin said

MikeofDecrepitude said

Yeah, because we're involved in a quagmire in Iraq, the economy is being destroyed by our own government, and we have a candidate like Barack Obama who supports the Global Poverty Act which would take billions of taxpayers money and ship it overseas in droves to 3rd world nations. Of course the goal wouldn't even be to teach them trades so that they can support themselves, but to create giant welfare states. He didn't vote for the war yet he's all for using taxpayers money to rebuild foreign nations like Iraq? Abortion is the last thing on my mind right now.

That's a much better way to stop terrorism than our idiotic invasion of Iraq. People become terrorists because they are fucking pissed off. If the ragheads had all the creature comforts and brain-deadening forms of entertainment that we have, they wouldn't be flying planes into buildings and blowing up shit.
Better to spend the money on that than on making their lives worse therefore creating more terrorists.

It's our constant meddling in other's affairs and exploitations of foreign nations that breeds the animosity against the west. I can't agree with this socialist idea of giving third world nations our money so that they don't "hate" us. They just want to funnel the money in and not actually create any social programs that would teach them trades for their overall benefit. Give a man a fish and he eats for a day; teach a man to fish and he eats for a lifetime.

Look, i don't necessarily support it either, but the money is going over there regardless of who's in charge. Might as well do something better with it then we are now.
And like anus.com said, we've been sending billions in foreign aid for years.
This is nothing new.