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Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
Cite, please. We devote a smaller percentage of our GDP to foreign aid than almost every other industrialized country.
"At the moment, the United States is the world’s second-largest foreign aid donor in absolute terms after Japan, but ranks 22 out of 22 major industrial nations when assistance is measured as a percentage of GDP." Link.
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That article makes bold claims and provides nothing to back it up. Where do they get their data to support their claims? I don't know because they don't say.
Moreover, what are they saying qualifies as "foriegn aid"? I don't know because they don't say.
All the money we spent invading and rebuilding Iraq is foriegn aid. That is money we are spending to free an oppressed people from tyranny and to make the world safer. Are they counting that as foreign aid? I don't know because they don't say.
Please don't insult my intelligence by citing to an article like that. Bare conclusions prove nothing. Where is the beef?
