In a letter issued to Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R – FL), Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned that the Foreign Relations Authorization Act is being officially opposed by the US State Department and that she is urging President Obama to veto it.
The resolution is putting a number of restrictions of foreign aid worldwide, demanding cuts unless the Obama Administration can affirm that the assorted nations impacted are meeting certain Congressional demands.
Clinton’s opposition seems not to be on general principle, for she has surely made similar demands and threatened to revoke funding surrounding them. Rather, her objection insists it would harm the State Department’s ability carry out the demands themselves, since they’ll be codified into law by Congress.
The House bill would actually be a net decline in foreign aid spending in the near term, but it is generally assumed that the funding would eventually be returned and even increased, assuming the nations eventually relent to US demands.
Yea God forbid we should put restrictions on foreign aid. Much better for America to go completely broke than to deny the CIA their little puppet states around the world.
Hey it worked out so well for the USSR, right?
If you don’t pay your servants or feed your puppets to perform.., then they might go somewhere ells., now that goes for the Muslims Brotherhoods and its affiliated terrorists groups in Libya.
Second: if you don’t pay them they who ells is going to buy the US war machineries and wars that comes with it.
The list of countries who's aid they want to cut reads like it's hot off the Tel Aviv press.
The largest foreign aid recipient of the US is Israel. Someone please tell me what they do for us in return?
The US is a puppet state of Israel's – Israel is America's only enemy in the world – NOT a single good thing that Israel does for America – it's TRAITORS in AIPAC and in the CONGRESS continue to LIE the US into wars to benefit Israel.
Why not end all foreign aid.
If they ended foreign aid then half the arms factories in the US would have to close.
They take taxpayer money for aide. It goes to order planes, tanks etc. and right into whose pocket?
The CEO's of the arms manufacturers – the "job creators."
Ha.
Ros-Lehtinen is whack.
Whatever war criminal clinton asks for…the opposite should be done !
It would be nice if the US were looked upon as a nation builder, not a nation destroyer. Instead of selling other nations bombs and rifles, how about selling them tractors and irrigation systems and schools? How about sending armies of teachers instead of soldiers? Instead of seeding fields with cluster bombs, how about seeding clouds to produce rain?
When will an outfit like the Peace Corps ever be larger than the military?
I know- I must have bumped my head or something, it's insane to think any of this could happen.