Smart Power Vote Coming Tomorrow in Senate
International Affairs, which includes our diplomacy, development and international organization expenses, comprises just over 1.2% of our total federal budget and only 6% of our national security spending along with 83% for military and 11% for Homeland Security.
It seems to me that a larger proportion of money for eradicating disease, pumping and purifying water, microloans, infrastructure assistance and things like this would help win more moderates over to respecting US peacemaking efforts. Shouldn’t our aim be the winning of hearts and minds of youngsters?
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evolved out of his business experience that the best decisions come out of an objective gathering of information and a pragmatic consideration of costs and benefits. I am interested in promoting Centrist candidates and Policies. My posts are mostly about people and policies that I believe are part of the solution rather the problem.