Foreign Aid and US Politics

Foreign Aid and US PoliticsTo Be Or Not To Be InvolvedIn the year 1796, President George upper-case letter gave his speech, the F arwell Address, directing to all fellow the Statesn citizens before he resigned from his professorshipial office concerning the modern nations time to come. He warned the the Statesns to avoid political parties for it may tear the domain apart, and to avoid creating durable alliances and overseas affairs, precisely rather favor isolationism and temporarily alliances in cases of emergencies. It wasnt until during the presidency of Woodrow Wilson, World state of war I occurred that the States began to shift away from the ideology of neutrality. Since then until today, the united States rose to become the initiations super supply and serves as the worlds police after the aftermath of World fight II and the Cold War, ending the concept of isolationism. With many speculations regarding inappropriate issues, threats, attacks, wait on hands that arg on non strikeed and the increase of the deficit disbursement, many the Statesns began to wonder whether or not being involved in other countries businesses would do more(prenominal)(prenominal) harm than good to the nation. later on the World Wars, many Americans believe that the verdant should cut all ties from any foreign affairs, including aids. A number of flock believe that the government is spending in addition much currency on foreign affairs, not realizing that the m whizy being wasted is utilize to help many undeveloped countries around the world. In 1987, President Ronald Reagan verbalise in his speech, Remarks at a White House Briefing for the Citizens Network for Foreign Affairs, that America is actually spending less than what they sibylline to on foreign policies, Give away too much money without return? The truth is that now, and historically, weve exhausted very little on foreign affairs in terms of the overall calculate of our government. In the late f orties and early fifties, during the time of the Marshall plan, we exhausted 11 cents of every Federal one dollar bill on foreign affairs. That figure had dropped to 4 cents on the dollar by 20 years ago and has continued to fall until, in recent years, weve been spending less than 2 cents of each dollar to shop at our nationals foreign policy.1 However, over the years America has changed America continued to develop and confirm their economy and defenses as well as helping other unfortunate countries who are in need to the point that America is in a deficit with the national debt of about 17 trillion dollars compared to Reagans era which was only 1-2 trillion U.S dollars. President Bill Clinton made effort of lowering the national debt during his presidency, which he did briefly by -2.0%, and the United States was in a surplus for on the button that moment until George W. Bush came into power in 2001.2 By having their complete focus on foreign affairs, the U.S has neglected t he problems arising among their own people.As of today, thousands of Americans are unemployed and are being forced to continue to lodge in poverty. Many Americans argued that the billions of dollars the government is direct to foreign countries should be used for creating jobs and prevent poverty from spending throughout the acres. Not only are thousands of Americans are living in poverty but also millions of foreigners around the world. Ironically, those billions of dollars the United States government direct is going to the Middle East, the most Anti-Americanized region in the world. 3 Americans questions why does the government even bother helping a country if they dont want any interference from outsiders regarding their own domestic issues. Although America is trying their best to help as much as they can, half of those billions of dollars are going true(a) to the rich peoples pockets rather than the poor and receive nothing in return as a result.Foreign aid is supposed to help the lives of poor people who never had the chance to live a better life. For over 40-50 years, there are still children around the world roaming around on the streets to find food and help their parents labor many of those children if not all are illiterate. For 40-50 years of receiving foreign aid, these peoples lives arent improving much at all. As William Easterly pointed out, The West spent $2.3 trillion and Amaretch is still carrying firewood. Its a tragedy that so much well-meaning compassion did not bring these results for needy people. 4 And did the people even receive the full amount of $2.3 trillion of foreign aid? If the people in foreign countries truthfully authentic only about less than one-fourth of the reliable amount, what happened to the rest of the trillions of dollars? William Easterly cited that the money dies lost along the way to the World Bank, other agencies, rich people and corrupted politician leaders before the money finally arrives to the lower class citizens. And because the auxiliary countries usually dont pay attention, they just stop at that, not realizing that the money they have direct to a country like Ethiopia in Africa has come extremely short. So with a long concatenation of officials in charge of the money with no one looking over their shoulder to see how theyre spending it, theres plenty of ways that it leaks.5 Unfortunately, the people who are more benefited with this amount of money are the rich.Isolationist and former U.S social intercourseman, Ron Paul expresses his foreign policy by stating that the country needs to downsize its foreign policy. Despite being a conservative politician, Ron Paul opposes any type of foreign affairs and urges America to cut off foreign aid completely. He disapproves President Barack Obama continuously getting the nation too involved with the affairs which have already leaded to many misconceptions betwixt the foreign countries and the United States. What I really want is President Barack Obama to downsize the foreign policy, because if you stay involved in 140 countries . . . stirring up trouble, and you downsize the military, you hunting expedition into a problem. So, its our hinderance that needs downsizing.6 Paul also states that the countries should solve their own domestic policy issues without the United States constant interfering.Even if theres no intervention among countries, foreign aid creates dependency of countries one another, especially upon the U.S. When President Obama denied Ukraines need for military aid in the early 2014, he received many critics of why he didnt help aid, and why did he not send in troops into Ukraine. His response was Why is it that everybody is so eager to use military force after weve just gone through a decade of war at enormous costs to our troops and to our budget? And what is it exactly that these critics think would have been accomplished? Do people actually think that somehow we move some additional arms into Ukraine could potentially deter the Russian army? Or are we more likely to deter them by applying the sort of international pressure, diplomatic pressure and economic pressure that were applying?7Obama had used the same tactic when issuing about Syria up until now. During the war in Libya, the Obama Administration intervention was poorly devised the overall purpose of heading into Libya remained unclear. To add on more of the uncertainty of Libyas affairs, Congress considered Obamas action a violation against the War Powers of Re root word of 1973.8 Speaker of the House John Boehner apprised the president that the Obama Administration must withdraw.9Currently, the United States is involved with Syrias Civil War since 2011 with Syrias president Bashar al-Assad has warned against any foreign intervention that will be seen as an act of aggression to the entire country. After the deaths of five Westerners in Syria by attempting to give aid to the civilians, especially childre n, U.S President Barack Obama continues to send in more troops into the foreign country, not only to stop ISIS but also overthrow the Syrian President. 1011However, the conceit of foreign aid is not corrupt as some people may have interpret, but rather how much does the countries take role in foreign affairs. When a country does not prove aid but to resolve their domestic issues instead on their own, a foreign country such(prenominal) as America should not have the right to interfere. There is no use of one country getting involved in a foreign issue that has nothing to do with them. However, if they continue to get involved without consent, then the foreign country may have become new enemies to the problematic country that is facing its own civil war as long as the issue may stir the entire world. In 1796, U.S President George Washington knew the dangers of being involved in foreign affairs, and although President Ronald Reagan stated that We are the leader of the free world. A nd that is not a role we asked for its a role that was thrust upon us by history and by the hopes of those who aspire to freedom throughout the world.1, so long as America continues to engage deeply with foreign affairs that are deemed threatening to the entire world of democracy, America will continue making enemies and their economy will fall due to the large social gaps between the rich and the poor and the troubles the country is facing itself. Despite trying to not get involved with future affairs, many countries are already depending on the United States to resolve their problems such as the Ukraine Crisis. 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