Rick Perry actually had a good night tonight I think. For those listening, and if the media would give him a fair shake, he repaired the brain freeze "Energy Department" gaffe and gave some really good answers to several of the questions.
On foreign aid he said what a lot of us, even us 'Bible thumpers', have been wanting to hear. Nothing involving foreign policy or aid is off the table. You start with zero and do a full analysis of who will get what, if anything, in foreign aid. When the moderator pushed him on whether that would include Israel, he said yes, it would have to, but as was said on the previous page, he went on to describe Israel as a friend and worthy.
The USA currently sends foreign aid to most countries outside of Western Europe, Canada and Australia. We send aid to most of the Middle East Countries, most African nations, and even to Russia and Cuba. China got $12.9 million in U.S. foreign aid this past year. Israel got less than either Pakistan and Afghanistan. The total foreign aid budget is something over $30 billion, which is a small fraction of the enormous total budget.
But it's high time our elected leaders stopped thinking a few million or a billion is not important enough to spend carefully and with the respect that the many taxpayers who have to come up with all that money would spend it.
In my opinion, this thread title and opening comments do not represent Gov. Perry's position on this fairly.
On foreign aid he said what a lot of us, even us 'Bible thumpers', have been wanting to hear. Nothing involving foreign policy or aid is off the table. You start with zero and do a full analysis of who will get what, if anything, in foreign aid. When the moderator pushed him on whether that would include Israel, he said yes, it would have to, but as was said on the previous page, he went on to describe Israel as a friend and worthy.
The USA currently sends foreign aid to most countries outside of Western Europe, Canada and Australia. We send aid to most of the Middle East Countries, most African nations, and even to Russia and Cuba. China got $12.9 million in U.S. foreign aid this past year. Israel got less than either Pakistan and Afghanistan. The total foreign aid budget is something over $30 billion, which is a small fraction of the enormous total budget.
But it's high time our elected leaders stopped thinking a few million or a billion is not important enough to spend carefully and with the respect that the many taxpayers who have to come up with all that money would spend it.
In my opinion, this thread title and opening comments do not represent Gov. Perry's position on this fairly.
