There goes another 90 Million Dollars!?

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**Kilkrazy**

Andrew1975 wrote:
Whatever the experts say, foreign aid is a small item in the US government's budget, and will make no significant difference whether cut to zero or doubled.

The budget was 3.1 trillion dollars in 2009. Out of that, the foreign aid budget was less than half of the 0.1.

Try cutting Social Security 10% instead.

Depends on if you are speaking about only aid and not entire issue of aid, military aid, military intervention and the machine required to produce them.

Are there many many issues with domestic spending that are more important and need to be looked at, absolutely. There is obviously no one thing that needs to be changed and no silver bullet.

This whole thing started because I said 90 million to Egypt is an unnecessary waste. I've seen no evidence to the contrary. People have brought in all kinds of other topics and ideas. But none sway me from my original position.

I am speaking about foreign aid.

The US foreign aid budget includes a significant amount of military aid to Egypt and Israel. I don't know if you want to count that or cut it.

**Andrew1975**

Cut it.