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ORIGINAL: DesideriScuri Of course, if we pull aid from other countries, we'll piss off a lot of other countries, even though we currently get no credit or respect for the aid we are currently giving. You'd get a lot more props if you were giving aid to any countries other than Israel. do you get tired of being a fool? quote:
United States foreign aid is aid given by the United States government to other governments. The term generally does not include either money from private charitable organizations based in the United States, personal giving, or remittances. It is sometimes divided into two broad categories: military aid and economic assistance.[1] The Congressional Research Service divides it into five categories: bilateral development aid, economic assistance, humanitarian aid, multilateral economic contributions, and military aid.[2] Foreign aid recipients include developing countries, countries of strategic importance to the United States, and countries recovering from war. The government channels about half of its economic assistance through a specialized agency, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). its a few years old, but the wiki page lists the 25 top countries receiving aid as Afghanistan, Israel, Egypt, Jordan, West Bank/Gaza, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Malawi, Uganda, South Africa, Nigeria, Russia, Iraq, Tanzania, Mexico, Congo (Kinshasa), Haiti, Lebanon, Somalia, Zambia, and Sudan (former). the total amount is somewhere in the 40-50 billion dollar range. all the of those countries receive more economic aid than does Israel, their predominant source of aid being military. quote:
Foreign aid is generally unpopular with the general public, with a 2017 poll finding 57% favor a cut and 6% who want increased aid...Interviews with 1,012 adult Americans were conducted by telephone by Opinion Research Corporation in January 2011: Published by CNN, the response was that 81% felt that reducing aid to foreign countries was a good way to reduce the federal budget deficit, while 18% thought aid was more important than reducing deficit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_foreign_aid quote:
Today, the U.S. manages foreign assistance programs in more than 100 countries around the world through the efforts of over 20 different U.S. government agencies. These investments further America's foreign policy interests on issues ranging from expanding free markets, combating extremism, ensuring stable democracies, and addressing the root causes of poverty, while simultaneously fostering global good will. https://www.foreignassistance.gov/
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