people always say that all of our foriegn aid only makes up about 1% or our national budget. my response to that is ... so? its still a shitload of money and just like Paul has said, too, its the principal of the matter. this constant meddling in other countries private business is not buying us any goodwill its just the opposite it makes country become dependent on us and hostile towards us. just think about how would we like it if another country constantly ran our affairs (well I guess Israel already does but ..). the American people would be much better off when we reign in the globalists that run our country. :twocents: