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For ultra-rich Leftists like Mr. & Mrs. Microsoft, foreign aid is not charity; it is an entitlement. We are supposed to fund hostile, corrupt, despotic regimes — because ultimately our prosperity is at their expense.

This passage is telling:

“...Melinda Gates also expressed dismay at the administration’s budget ‘zeroing out’ funds for women’s healthcare as it relates to contraception. ‘You’re leaving women in destitute poverty if you don’t fund contraceptives,’ she said. The budget move by the administration follows Trump’s executive order instituting a ‘gag rule’ on US-funded international NGOs providing abortion services.”

The American taxpayer should not be forced to fund killing babies in the womb nor facilitating promiscuity.

The best, nay ONLY solution to poverty, war and injustice is FREEDOM.

It certainly is not in the US interest to have tyrannical regimes that oppress their own people. They also tend to foist their poison on their neighbors and send their people — with their problems — fleeing to the West.

I am a conservative, not a libertarian, so my concern is what works, not adherence to ideological purity. Foreign aid might be appropriate, but with strings attached.

The corrupt regime will get no support. The government must accept being managed toward limited representative government, freedom of the press, habeas corpus, religious liberty, economic freedom, etc.

To instead to throw money at a basket-case country to make ourselves feel good only perpetuates the misery and injustice.