As I closed with in the last commentary, let’s call it quits and in this last piece, look at the fears and the REAL things the States would gain from ending federal foreign aid. Thanks to Tom and others (public and private comments) for their thoughts on foreign aid.
Whatever the claimed purposes and benefits of dispensing foreign aid, it is nothing but another wasteful and government-promoting scheme of those governments. Most foreign aid fails to provide any real benefit to any ordinary people – especially those really in need of assistance – and instead further enrich the wealthy and powerful, and promote criminal prosperity. Especially corruption. But these practical reasons for opposing foreign aid are not the major thing wrong with it. At the heart of the matter: there is no moral or ethical or constitutional justification for foreign aid. It is NOT benevolence, and there are better, moral and ethical ways to provide assistance to the poor and disadvantaged. (Spoiler: it is PRIVATE, VOLUNTARY ACTION.)
The Price of Liberty 
Foreign aid – such benevolence!
As the cheerleaders race out to tout the grand and glorious COP26 to be held in Glasgow, as billions of grams of “greenhouse gases” are generated by all the elites swarming the Scot city, one of the frequent memes seems to be foreign aid.
It appears that the “third-world” countries and their advocates are insisting that the wealthy parts of the world have failed to meet their obligations to provide enough money to combat global warming in the poor nations of the planet.
Indeed, some of the Tranzis (transnational “progressives”) claim that the failure to pay enough in foreign aid has accelerated worldwide climate change, and paupered the “money-insecure” countries. And have even demonstrated that the rich countries want COVID-19 to continue to kill billions in the third world.
Sigh. To me, this smells much like the exaggerated moaning and fearmongering we hear about COVID-19 and so much else.
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