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Originally Posted by Bama
You're right, his exact words were "We're going to stop sending 700 billion/year to countries that don't like us very much" and I'm lumping everything into that number and I shouldn't be because it clouds the issue.
But, you bet, I do consider peacekeeping costs as foreign aid. I also include disaster relief, current loans, and past forgiven debt's as well. Any time my dollar goes to a foreign country and neither a good nor service is purchased, it's foreign aid. That is the money I'm talking about pumping into our school systems - unrelated to energy consumption costs.
You're right, the money we spend on energy consumption would benefit the American workers which, indirectly would help create a new tax base for other things, not just schools.
I'm talking oranges and the way I worded it, one could infer I'm talking about apples and I see that now. I'm sitting here wondering why people thought I was talking about energy consumption costs when I wasn't.  |
Yeah, that's why I asked you if you were speaking metaphorically when you said the 700 billion was foreign aid.
Either way, lucky for us, energy independence is an issue whose time has finally come, so regardless of who wins in November there will be some serious steps taken in that direction.....and honestly the plans of the two candidates aren't that far apart, even though they're still going to try to beat each other over the head about the specifics and claim that only their plan is the truly good one.