re: #205 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I’m sorry your friend is so heartless.

I’ve found people who make those arguments are making them from a position of conservative faith.

And even if it was true our minuscule foreign aid in relation to domestic spending could somehow affect those domestic problems, we have enough money to do both.

Having been on the “no food, no job, no home” beat, I tend to give a lot of money to our local secular food bank. Sometimes when they ask for product donations rather than money, I will donate things which usually aren’t thought of (sanitary napkins, toilet paper, baby diapers, cleaning supplies, &c.)

These people are the first on board to cut entitlement programs (except those that benefit them) to limit the growth of government and “balance the budget”. He didn’t respond to my suggestion that the issues mentioned with regard to the military were due to a misallocation of funds — that the military does have the resources to provide for proper equipment for troops and benefits for veterans — but they would rather spend the money elsewhere.