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From: Blue Star Kachina
Registered: Apr 2009

posted June 22, 2013 10:31 AM            

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but i think everyone around the world will agree with you and be much happier if the US kept it's money in the US and spent it on the people it collects it from....
... Kansas alone can feed the whole of the Western world, without leaving anyone out, with plenty more left for others....

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it's shameful for everyone to know that their are kids that are starving not even in a 3rd world country, but in the worlds strongest economy

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A healthy, happy prosperous nation will be more willing to aid other countries when their bellies are full.
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posted June 22, 2013 10:37 AM            

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I can see food aide being justified, even from a purely realpolitik standpoint - hungry people are not rational people - but so much of the US's food aide seems so horribly mismanaged, even corrupt.

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