The Scam of US Foreign Aid
The American Taxpayer is the biggest donor of money to foreign governments in the world. From 2013-2018, the US Taxpayer gave $282.6 BILLION in foreign aid. Mind you, I will NEVER say that 'the government' gave those nations that money because the US Government doesn't have ANY money at all...they merely confiscate taxpayer money, then redistribute it to their friends and other power brokers.
First, let's discuss how much $282.6 billion really is:
$282,600,000,000
That much money would weigh about 6,216,972 lbs.
That would equate to about 1942 Chevy Malibu's.
That would equate to about 621 sperm whales weighing 10,000lbs each.
So, every April 15th when you are busy filing the taxes that an UN-elected government agency that The Potato (Joe Biden) wants to supply with 80,000 more agents to, let me share the Top 10 List of Biggest US Taxpayer recipients of our money:
Afghanistan ($4.89 billion)
Israel ($3.3 billion)
Jordan ($1.72 billion)
Egypt ($1.46 billion)
Iraq ($960 million)
Ethiopia ($922 million)
Yemen ($809 million)
Colombia ($800 million)
Nigeria ($793 million)
Lebanon ($790 million)
OK, stop laughing......yes, The Potato just bailed on 20 years of you and me sending money to Afghanistan in our efforts to 'spread democracy' in the Middle East, ONLY to pull out of there with zero coherent plan in order to make a good photo op on the 20th anniversary of our military going in there. And yes, we did such an amazing job in Afghanistan after we spend 2 decades training local military and police. Then, we left hundreds of millions of dollars of high-tech military equipment for the Taliban to capture and send to Russia and China. It took the Taliban less than 10 days to seize the entire nation. But I digress…
But let's look at the rest of the list:
Aside from Israel, whom I can make a solid argument that is an ally in the Middle East that we need, how can you justify the spend on ANY of the other nations on this list?
In each case, every one of these nations would cut our throat the minute we cut off the taxpayer money. Colombia? OMG! They're doing such an amazing job of shutting down their cocaine business...said no one ever.
The sick part is that we are giving away $282.6 BILLION over that 6-year period (2013-2018) and my question is this:
What could we have used that money for to protect America?
If we took even a fraction of that money and used it to protect our southern and northern border against the INVASION of 1,800,000 unvaccinated illegal aliens that have been fully welcomed into America since January 20, 2021, what would be the impact to our middle and lower class?
And yet, even under Trump, the wealth re-distribution of the hard working, US taxpayer continues to fund the most absurd - many our sworn enemies. All the while our elected politicians do nothing but demand our unending praise and worship for their 'service' to the country as they rob us blind.
Sorry if I'm not impressed.