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Vogon_Glory

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9. As I Was Saying About Little Cherubs...

Sat Dec 17, 2011, 10:41 AM

Dec 2011

A 24/7 "casual Friday" attitude towards the truth.

BTW, I didn't say that US foreign aid doesn't do good overseas or that domestic aid doesn't do good here in the US. I can and do say that government foreign aid HAS substantially gone down over the decades. I also say that the US government COULD and DID give more in decades past. To name a couple of examples: the Pan-American Highway, infrastructure in South America and in post-independence Africa. Older examples include Havana's famed "Malecon" sea wall.

Such largesse became a popular target for ambitious right-wing politicos and the topic of US government foreign aid continues to be a popular right-wing whipping-boy to this day. That's why US foreign aid has been proportionately cut over the decades.

How that logically translates to "you refuse to believe that my country does a lot of good in the world" eludes me. Does the term "non-sequitur" have any meaning, by any chance?

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What about Native Americans? JJW Dec 2011 #1

Very good point Mosaic Dec 2011 #28

Ayn Rand was a psychopath. fasttense Dec 2011 #2

Bingo. But she is the darling of the GOP (Grand Old Psychopath) party ProfessionalLeftist Dec 2011 #10

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Facts are neither left, nor right--they are simply the facts. Bogart Dec 2011 #5

Caveat Lector Vogon_Glory Dec 2011 #6

It's not my problem that you refuse to believe that my country does a lot of good in the world. Bogart Dec 2011 #7

As I Was Saying About Little Cherubs... Vogon_Glory Dec 2011 #9

Actually, it would appear to be a left/right whipping-boy... Bogart Dec 2011 #11

So true, man. AverageJoe90 Dec 2011 #15

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Well then, perhaps you should help a little more. Bogart Dec 2011 #17

I did not see that. tabatha Dec 2011 #21

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Well, would you advocate for them to act against our interests? Bogart Dec 2011 #18

No, I think we should mind our own business and if we give money ThomThom Dec 2011 #23

Yes - Bush certainly did that. tabatha Dec 2011 #19

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Point where I have blamed the us for the woes of the world nadinbrzezinski Dec 2011 #41

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