Episode 15 - Foreign Aid: Wherein we discuss the usefulness of US providing foreign aid to other countries.
00:00:11 - Introductions
00:02:06 - Non-military foreign aid helps us avoid conflict
00:03:18 - The 4-star General says if he had one more dollar to invest...
00:04:11 - What if you don't have one more dollar?
00:05:34 - Zeroing it out wouldn't solve our fiscal issues...
00:06:04 - Who do we want to be as a country?
00:06:59 - America benefits from helping others too
00:07:53 - De ja vu from a previous episode
00:09:11 - Pushback from the Libertarian
00:11:22 - Can we sustain this spending long term?
00:11:56 - We should be looking at the big ticket items and not small change
00:13:33 - This conversation is not about the USAID controversies
00:14:14 - We should prioritize our spending; small change adds up
00:16:02 - We can cut things now, get our budget in order, and add them back in
00:19:21 - You're looking at people's lives as Lattes
00:21:12 - Cutting programs like a bull in a china shop
00:23:47 - We shouldn't be nation building...
00:25:35 - The juice has to be worth the squeeze
00:26:19 - The US is the largest contributor to foreign aid in the world
00:27:57 - The recent spike in foreign aid is an anomaly
00:29:46 - Do we want to be the kind of people who let children starve?
00:30:33 - No one has faith that money will go to help Americans
00:32:55 - What are the different types of foreign aid and should we do them?
00:34:11 - The benefits of economic development aid
00:35:38 - We need to cut funding to programs that fail to produce results
00:37:05 - Refugees at the southern border are seeking economic asylum
00:38:33 - When we do nothing, we're still affected
00:39:01 - We're not against foreign aid; it just needs proper checks and balances
00:42:00 - The way the current administration is going about cuts...
00:44:00 - Musk destroys everything and rebuilds from the ground up
00:45:42 - Once something is in government it seems to stay
00:48:16 - You gotta do your homework before you make cuts
00:51:58 - The inertia of government
00:53:44 - Has "Peace & Security" aid actually hurt America?
00:56:54 - The first "America First" policy didn't work...
00:59:12 - Peace & Security will always have unintended consequences
01:00:14 - We're not the only country that can contribute aid
01:02:41 - We've conditioned the world that the US will take care of it
01:05:00 - Wrap-up and what's been making us happy
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