It’s a common complaint, the billions of taxpayer dollars poured into almost every corner of the globe by the United States government. And it’s a justifiable complaint. We have our own problems here at home, with our major cities descending into chaos, deteriorating infrastructure, and our national debt past the stratosphere–out of near-Earth orbit, and well on its way to Saturn and points beyond.
Once in a while, though, an idea comes along that makes one wonder why someone didn’t think it up long ago. This is one such; making the billions we send out in foreign aid not a grant, but a loan, to be secured by the receiving nations’ natural resources.
Really, why not? The idea was floated during the recent negotiations for the Ukraine aid bill:
Working to salvage an aid package to Ukraine, Republican senators pitched an idea to former President Donald Trump that they thought he’d…
