Foreign 'Aid'?

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and elsewhere. He also kept himself in power through bribes and
by buying military support.
The US alone has spent over twenty billion dollars in the past
twenty years. Between surplus tax dollars and the money we would save from
not paying foreign aid, we could pay back the national debt in a very short
time. We can accomplish this exponentially, by other countries paying back
their debt to us and our money from taxes we can have our debt paid by the
year 2000(1). Yet our government is set on sending our hard earned tax
dollars to other countries to be used for the construction of a dictator's
palace. Besides the national debt, if the money was given back to the
people, then we could abolish the poverty and slums of our once great
country.
What has foreign aid done for us? Not much, unless giving
terrorists funds to buy weapons and use them against us and other countries
counts. For instance, Iraqi leader Sadam Husane used to receive funding
from the U.S. and other countries with ...

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