If we stopped giving foreign aid, then we would still have a huge defecit. So, the choices aren't between having a big defecit with foreign aid or a ballanced budget.
The choices are between spending money we don't have, and spending a lot more money we don't have.
The choice is easy.
Don't spend any money we don't have, not a dime.
If that means starting with foreign aid, which is a huge chunk of change, that's fine.
I do think though that foreign aid is MORE IMPORTANT then most domestic welfare though. Even though the "poor" in America are in bad shape, the truely poor in the rest of the world need our help much more.
Screw 'em, not our problem. Tell all of them that China has the money and if China doesn't want to give it away, they should take it up with Beijing, not Washington and The Messiah.
Their plight isn't an American problem.
Seriously, it's not.
From my priorities anyway, it doesn't make sense to throw away some of the better spending because of a defecit,
Foreign aid isn't "better" spending, it's just waste.
Better spending is defined by the Constitution, and somewhere around 90% of the federal budget isn't allowed by the Constitution. So it would be damn easy to balance the budget, if we obeyed our own highest laws.
when ideally we should try and get rid of other less nescesary spending.
Borrowing money to waste on foreigners who hate us is the most useless spending we can conceive of.
anyway... we are in a recession, so defecit spending is more acceptable now.
No, it's not.
It's less acceptable, even if The Messiah is pushing it.
After the recession we should just scrap or revamp most of medicare and non-SS federal weflare to ballance the budget, but keep foreign aid at its current level, or increase it.
Right.
Don't spend money on Americans, money we're not allowed by the Constitution to spend anyway, but by all means continue to waste money we don't have on countries and people that hate us.
And if anything, our foreign aid should be focused on INVESTMENTS for third world countries instead of just handing out food that doesn't fix any problem.
Our foreign aid should be stopped, and our companies should be told they're free to invest in foreign countries without fear of being punished for "outsourcing" or any of the other anti-capitalist, anti-freedom nonsense the socialists have dreamed up to punish people for protecting their money from the socialists.