Cuts in funding for Sudan
November 14, 2005
The Republican-led Congress is crazy. They voted to trim the $50 million that lawmakers had approved earlier in the year for the African Union force. Let’s take a step back and get a big picture view for a second. Most Americans think that we spend too much on foreign aid when in fact, we spend as a country less than one half of one percent on foreign aid. One half of one percent!! And now the Republicans who all of a sudden want to try and manage this out of control deficit by cutting spending. What’s worse is that we promised this money to the African Union last year and because politicians play on the citizen’s apathy and ignorance, they often times get away with tomfoolery of the grandest scale. Now I know $50 million might not sound like a lot in terms of the trillion dollar budget we wrangle over. But this money will help bring stability to a nation that has been ravaged by poverty, corruption, and the blind eye of rich nations that can’t seem to see understand why they are so despised in the world. Many people say 9/11 changed everything. It changed nothing as we continue to give more reasons for people to kill themselves as they try to break the oppressive will of the United States and its allies.
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