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So, the amount of money matters? Look at what could be done with all that money here in the states....hell, that would avoid the sequester.
$40 billion is an insignificant amount in comparison to the federal budget and it's not close to the size of the sequester.
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The majority of US foreign assistance is contained in the international affairs budget requested and allocated through the State, Foreign Operations, and Related Agencies appropriations bill. This is also referred to as Function 150 or the “150 account”, and contains spending on global economic, diplomatic and humanitarian programs by the State Department (DOS), the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) among others.
It's not even close to the size of the sequester. But worse, you assumption is that all foreign aid is a waste, which it is not.
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Or was it a Red Herring in disguise??????
kool aid anyone....
Not what the CBO says.....but keep believing....
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In terms of actual spending, called outlays, the sequester would trim only about $44 billion in the fiscal year that ends Sept. 30, the Congressional Budget Office says.
Ah, this is the fundamental difference between liberals and conservatives that Paul Krugman wrote about in his column, "A tail of Two Moralities."
This is an excerpt that answers your question:
Personally, I favor the civilized system we now have developed over the Oliver Twist world conservatives would lead us back to.
A single mom needing food and diapers for her baby are not caused by me paying less taxes. They are caused by her having a baby she couldn't afford to care for, and often times by a man who doesn't care for either the mother or child.
Do I want her and her baby to go without? Of course not. Do I want her to make welfare a way of life? No way.
We don't have a tax revenue problem. We have a government spending problem because we have a government corruption problem.
How many trillions of dollars a year must we spend before it is too much for even the liberals?
Also, lets not forget...this is a cut in elevated spending.....
lets say they received a 10% increase in spending, now they are only spending 8%...
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