[bjnewman85]

Yeah man, our government borrows money. We used it to build the largest economy in the world. Now we continue to do that, but we also send part of the money our government borrows to people all around the world.

In exchange for this ultra stable source of revenue backed by the wealth of our current and future taxpayers and our military, they might forgive us for all the horrible things we have done.

[fallingknife]

But we aren't using it to build the economy. We are mostly using it to pay interest and entitlement payments.

[smileysteve]

More important than foreign aid is a huge defense budget and an 20 year occupation.