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To: ChinuSFO who wrote (12161)2/15/2006 4:51:53 PM
From: Dale Baker  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 541582
 
The foreign aid budget in its entirety would only cover a few months of operations in Iraq. One of the great misconceptions pollsters have found is people believing that some huge % of the government budget goes to foreign aid. It is usually well under 2% of the total, including military aid programs, unless it has changed drastically in the last five years.

Page 5 in this document gives you FY2005 numbers. Taking out actual operating funds for the State Department, the total given away is in the low $20 billion range.

state.gov



To: ChinuSFO who wrote (12161)2/15/2006 5:12:52 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 541582
 
Dale is correct. Foreign aid is a small part of the budget. Much less than what is spent in Iraq. Even Iraq is only a moderate part of the American budget.

Can you expand on what you mean by "America first"? Do you mean the same thing that say Pat Buchanan would mean by that?

buchanan.org

reason.com


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