Comments on: Foreign Policy http://marcforsenate.com/2010/02/15/foreign-policy/ Oregon's Candidate for United States Senate Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:43:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Gordon Johnston http://marcforsenate.com/2010/02/15/foreign-policy/comment-page-1/#comment-20 Gordon Johnston Tue, 09 Mar 2010 02:27:51 +0000 http://marcforsenate.com/?p=51#comment-20 The author cites our foreign aid as propping up of failed socialist economies, which fail, apparently, because they're not free-market economies like ours. I guess he hasn't heard that free-market economies fail too, and thus our Great Recession. And linked ironically to our free-market economy is a lot of socialist help from government, such as American farm subsidies, subsidies to pharmaceutical research, Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, etc. I agree we need to target our foreign aid more appropriately and strategically, to avoid some of the blunders the author cites. My question is why do we annually give five billion and more dollars to Israel in foreign aid. What is that money achieving? The author cites our foreign aid as propping up of failed socialist economies, which fail, apparently, because they’re not free-market economies like ours. I guess he hasn’t heard that free-market economies fail too, and thus our Great Recession. And linked ironically to our free-market economy is a lot of socialist help from government, such as American farm subsidies, subsidies to pharmaceutical research, Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, etc.

I agree we need to target our foreign aid more appropriately and strategically, to avoid some of the blunders the author cites. My question is why do we annually give five billion and more dollars to Israel in foreign aid. What is that money achieving?

]]> By: chris reed http://marcforsenate.com/2010/02/15/foreign-policy/comment-page-1/#comment-13 chris reed Sun, 28 Feb 2010 05:27:07 +0000 http://marcforsenate.com/?p=51#comment-13 "Teach a man to fish." “Teach a man to fish.”

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