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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: "Would You Like To Buy A Pen?" She Asked Me [View all]AnotherMcIntosh
(11,064 posts)36. Thank you for your Congressional efforts. Since the rest of us are not Congressmen, does it matter
whether we are in favor of more foreign aid, the same, or less? The rest of us, of course, don't vote in Congress. And many of us have experience with Congressmen who won't vote in ways that we would like them to.
Asking them to vote in a particular way doesn't seem to have any effect unless it coincides with what the big-money people want. Maybe this was your experience as well when you were out of office.
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People do not underestand how tiny a fraction of the budget is used by Foreign Aid.
Bernardo de La Paz
Feb 2013
#11
It's amazing how someone selling pencils like that can form an unforgettable image stamped in your
world wide wally
Feb 2013
#13
"...for the cost of one aircraft carrier, we could feed every hungry person in the entire world."
Duer 157099
Feb 2013
#17
Not quite right. Many of them are not 'US' installations. We share a building in another country's
stevenleser
Feb 2013
#76
One carrier would feed everyone. But then no one would hate us and the MIC wouldn't prosper as much.
Scuba
Feb 2013
#26
Thank you for your Congressional efforts. Since the rest of us are not Congressmen, does it matter
AnotherMcIntosh
Feb 2013
#36