According to pdpf.org, the United States spent $71 billion in fiscal year 2022, on international expenditures so spent for governmental aid to foreign lands. Of course, how much of this money was really aid in the sense of healthcare, medicine, education, and things of actual benefit, as compared to that monetary aid being spent for foreign military planning and support, is something that should be fully disclosed to the America people. Further to the point, there are numerous governmental agencies, both known and unknown by the general public, in which, the people are not privy to knowing what these agencies actually spend or allocated their monies upon, which could easily be for more of that money being spent in foreign lands, in areas that have little or nothing to do with providing benefit and aid to those that are the most vulnerable.
In consideration that this government can’t even come remotely close to balancing its own budget, along with the salient fact that many of its own people, are unfortunately still ill-educated, underemployed, disadvantaged, and living lives of desperation – this then would clearly dictate that it would be more sensible to feed and to care for one’s own citizens, before expending money on those that are foreigners. After all, there are all sorts of wonderful charitable and non-governmental organizations, which are well equipped and well able to help peoples and nation-states of all types, which can address those issues and problems that need to be addressed, without the United States government needing to get directly involved.
Look, it must be said, that America needs to first get its own house in order, and thus it seems quite unfair that the taxpayers of America have allocated from their hard work and labor, aid to foreign lands, when so many of our citizens are suffering. There is something to be said for charity, but there is also something to be said about being responsible to those that this governance owes its allegiance to. All those then that are in favor of expending billions and billions of dollars to provide aid to foreign lands through their governance, should recognize that it is always easier to spend another’s money, rather than one’s own. The money that this government has comes from its people, and the responsibility that this government thus has, is to take care of its own, and then to demonstrate the discipline to do exactly that.
If America really wants to be seriously considered as the greatest nation in the world, then it has to prove that by doing right by its own citizens, which is their first order of business, because those that will not attend to the needs of their own household, but insist upon spending billions upon billions of dollars instead on foreign peoples, is misguided. Good charity begins first at home, and those that deny this, are the very same that are wasteful with the monies that they are supposed to be good stewards of, to the disgrace of all those good Americans that have been denied not only their fair share, but also their fair deal.