> Sure. Off the top of my head from a previous conversation about aid(?) to Mozambique[1], that's $83.5 million.
> That's probably one of the better examples because I think that fighting STDs is an honorable cause, but $83.5 million when we're both trillions in debt and have pressing concerns at home? Yeah no, we need to help ourselves first if we can spend that kind of money on a whim.
You are aware that this sort of aid is part of the US foreign policy to get support for initiatives? Do you really thing the US would be in the position that it is today if it wasn't for the money they spend overseas? I mean do you think the US would have won the cold war if it wasn't for the Marshall plan?
> Am I actually correct in assuming y'all are trying to tell me I shouldn't care that my taxes are being wasted just because the sum is relatively small? Emphasis on relative. I really want to avoid attacking someone on that because it sounds so disingenuous, but it's increasingly hard to do so.
> Tax dollars are a sacred resource, provided by the sweat (and possibly blood) of American taxpayers. As a taxpayer myself, I will not tolerate seeing my and our taxes spent so flippantly.
So why are you not shouting about Trump having the secret service pay $2 million to stay at his golf clubs? Is that not spending taxes flippantly?
> Sure. Off the top of my head from a previous conversation about aid(?) to Mozambique[1], that's $83.5 million.
> That's probably one of the better examples because I think that fighting STDs is an honorable cause, but $83.5 million when we're both trillions in debt and have pressing concerns at home? Yeah no, we need to help ourselves first if we can spend that kind of money on a whim.
You are aware that this sort of aid is part of the US foreign policy to get support for initiatives? Do you really thing the US would be in the position that it is today if it wasn't for the money they spend overseas? I mean do you think the US would have won the cold war if it wasn't for the Marshall plan?
> Am I actually correct in assuming y'all are trying to tell me I shouldn't care that my taxes are being wasted just because the sum is relatively small? Emphasis on relative. I really want to avoid attacking someone on that because it sounds so disingenuous, but it's increasingly hard to do so.
> Tax dollars are a sacred resource, provided by the sweat (and possibly blood) of American taxpayers. As a taxpayer myself, I will not tolerate seeing my and our taxes spent so flippantly.
So why are you not shouting about Trump having the secret service pay $2 million to stay at his golf clubs? Is that not spending taxes flippantly?