Obama Aims Budget Torpedo at Merchant Mariner Unions

[JayhawkSD]

10. Interesting point in there, though

"The point of the food aid program is to provide American help to people who are suffering" (emphasis mine)

While I agree with the OP, and the gist of the objection voiced, how is American help any better than any other help? Our goal should be to provide help, and not be so hung up on where the provided goods came from. Is the purpose of the program to help others? Or is it to provide American jobs and sell American products to the government for giveaway? I would suggest its purpose is to do both.

Mr. Marcus is trying to sort of gloss over the second part, and claim that Obama is damaging the first part by using foreign ships and goods.

Reality is Obama is not damaging the first part, but he is destroying the second part, and it is perfectly proper and fitting to object to that. We should be raising all sorts of hell about that, since there is no reason to do it. It does not advance the cause of the first part, and it harms our own people in the process.