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That’s what foreign aid is for: 1. Keep strategic production capacity alive. 2. Spread American soft power. 3. Get warm fuzzy feelings because you prevented
by enaaem 9mo ago
That’s what foreign aid is for:
1. Keep strategic production capacity alive.
2. Spread American soft power.
3. Get warm fuzzy feelings because you prevented millions of people from dying of starvation.
- mlrtime 9mo agoNo, the US will not depend on foreign aid to [primarily] feed it's citizens. Never going to happen.
- nemomarx 9mo agoYou've got it backwards - foreign aid using US grown crops provides increased very stable demand. Take any excess grains made in a given year and ship them to another country, the farmers get paid well for it so they keep their productive capacity high, and the marginal cost of getting it to a charity overseas is low anyway. This means there's always enough grain to feed our citizens.
- direwolf20 9mo agoAnd it keeps foreign countries dependent on us and gives us another avenue to coerce them. Wins for us all around.