re: #200 Hecuba’s daughter

I had to respond to a Trumpster friend (a devout Catholic) who posted the following meme:

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I pointed out that foreign aid was only 1% of the budget and his response was, yes but even that was too much because priorities. Am 1000% confident that he is fine with letting all these groups suffer for tax cuts for the wealthy, and he would believe that the homeless should just get a job. Anything that conservatives promote, he will regurgitate.

I’m sorry your friend is so heartless.

I’ve found people who make those arguments are making them from a position of conservative faith.

And even if it was true our minuscule foreign aid in relation to domestic spending could somehow affect those domestic problems, we have enough money to do both.

Having been on the “no food, no job, no home” beat, I tend to give a lot of money to our local secular food bank. Sometimes when they ask for product donations rather than money, I will donate things which usually aren’t thought of (sanitary napkins, toilet paper, baby diapers, cleaning supplies, &c.)