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	Name:	MartiniMan -
	Subject:	Its a drop in the bucket
	Date:	1/16/2013 9:00:56 AM

You do realize the U.S. government provides about $50 billion in foreign aid right? That represents less than 2% of the entire budget and is significantly less than the hundreds of billions that Americans provide in foreign aid through private charities. If you eliminated all foreign aid it would give you enough money to run the federal government for less than 6 days!

I understand the appeal of eliminating this and frankly I am OK doing it with some exceptions for humanitarian aid but this is not where we should focus our efforts. We have $15 trillion in debt (of which Obama has added $5 trillion in just 4 short years) and hundreds of trillions in unfunded and underfunded mandates as a result of out of control entitlement programs like Medicare, SS, Medicaid, etc. We have to focus there or we will end up like Greece only worse.