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Obdicut (Now with 2% less brain)10/05/2010 7:22:21 am PDT

re: #124 reine.de.tout

Foreign aid is an absolutely tiny part of the budget— less than 1%. We give less, as a percentage of our budget, than many other countries. And foreign aid is often cheaper than military intervention. The Marshall Plan, a giant foreign aid package, was one of the smartest and best things that the US ever did. It gave us a stable Western Europe— not to mention huge markets for US goods.

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