Comments on: If it is impossible to buy friends, why does the US send so much tax-payer money to other countries? http://al-ayyam-yemen.com/if-it-is-impossible-to-buy-friends-why-does-the-us-send-so-much-tax-payer-money-to-other-countries/799/ Your Yemen News Source Mon, 29 Aug 2011 19:18:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2 By: Edg1 http://al-ayyam-yemen.com/if-it-is-impossible-to-buy-friends-why-does-the-us-send-so-much-tax-payer-money-to-other-countries/799/comment-page-1/#comment-10950 Edg1 Sat, 10 Apr 2010 17:01:43 +0000 http://al-ayyam-yemen.com/if-it-is-impossible-to-buy-friends-why-does-the-us-send-so-much-tax-payer-money-to-other-countries/799/#comment-10950 The government proves the point over and over again. They keep trying to bribe our enemies instead of rewarding our friends. Result? EPIC FAIL! The government proves the point over and over again. They keep trying to bribe our enemies instead of rewarding our friends.
Result? EPIC FAIL!

]]> By: Victor http://al-ayyam-yemen.com/if-it-is-impossible-to-buy-friends-why-does-the-us-send-so-much-tax-payer-money-to-other-countries/799/comment-page-1/#comment-10949 Victor Sat, 10 Apr 2010 16:51:06 +0000 http://al-ayyam-yemen.com/if-it-is-impossible-to-buy-friends-why-does-the-us-send-so-much-tax-payer-money-to-other-countries/799/#comment-10949 In the ordinary world of business, it's called bribery. The USA gives money to individuals and government and the [often unspoken] message is, "Now do as you are told or else you'll never get another cent." It's called commercial imperialism. It has been suggested that the USA is behaving in a humanitarian way but that can't be true. It treats its own poor and sick people so badly, that it seems unlikely foreigners get all those billions just out of the goodness of the USA heart. There is very little evidence that the USA, as a society, is caring or sympathetic towards the depressed and suffering masses of the world, or even inside the USA. The countries that receive USA handouts get the plain message: "Of course you can have our help , but you'd better start doing things our way." It's called commercial imperialism. And there is a straight commercial basis. The USA has a long history of pouring money into economies that lack purchasing power, so that the foreign country can buy USA goods. The long term result is increases sales and international trade for USA but, often, no lasting benefit for the recipient. It's called commercial imperialism. It has little to do with friendship. It's called commercial imperialism. In the ordinary world of business, it’s called bribery. The USA gives money to individuals and government and the [often unspoken] message is, “Now do as you are told or else you’ll never get another cent.” It’s called commercial imperialism.

It has been suggested that the USA is behaving in a humanitarian way but that can’t be true. It treats its own poor and sick people so badly, that it seems unlikely foreigners get all those billions just out of the goodness of the USA heart. There is very little evidence that the USA, as a society, is caring or sympathetic towards the depressed and suffering masses of the world, or even inside the USA. The countries that receive USA handouts get the plain message: “Of course you can have our help , but you’d better start doing things our way.” It’s called commercial imperialism.

And there is a straight commercial basis. The USA has a long history of pouring money into economies that lack purchasing power, so that the foreign country can buy USA goods. The long term result is increases sales and international trade for USA but, often, no lasting benefit for the recipient. It’s called commercial imperialism.

It has little to do with friendship. It’s called commercial imperialism.

]]> By: Foremost authority http://al-ayyam-yemen.com/if-it-is-impossible-to-buy-friends-why-does-the-us-send-so-much-tax-payer-money-to-other-countries/799/comment-page-1/#comment-10948 Foremost authority Sat, 10 Apr 2010 15:55:50 +0000 http://al-ayyam-yemen.com/if-it-is-impossible-to-buy-friends-why-does-the-us-send-so-much-tax-payer-money-to-other-countries/799/#comment-10948 It's called humanitarianism. We are a country of people who care about others. Sending aid to people in distress is not meant to buy friends, it's to help people. It’s called humanitarianism. We are a country of people who care about others. Sending aid to people in distress is not meant to buy friends, it’s to help people.

]]> By: s7e7v7e7n7 http://al-ayyam-yemen.com/if-it-is-impossible-to-buy-friends-why-does-the-us-send-so-much-tax-payer-money-to-other-countries/799/comment-page-1/#comment-10947 s7e7v7e7n7 Sat, 10 Apr 2010 15:53:56 +0000 http://al-ayyam-yemen.com/if-it-is-impossible-to-buy-friends-why-does-the-us-send-so-much-tax-payer-money-to-other-countries/799/#comment-10947 If I may presume to assume I have a correct answer then it would appear to be something of a back door set up fund to start a business and establish a legal hold on property as well as any prosperity from said property to flow back into the governments treasury for which only those with secret access may dip into their pot of gold. If I may presume to assume I have a correct answer then it would appear to be something of a back door set up fund to start a business and establish a legal hold on property as well as any prosperity from said property to flow back into the governments treasury for which only those with secret access may dip into their pot of gold.

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