EACH YEAR, the United States spends more than $1.5 billion feeding starving people overseas. But our charity comes with a catch: The food has to be bought in America, and much of it must be shipped on American ships.
That might sound like a reasonable requirement. After all, we are giving a gift. Why shouldn’t we benefit from it too? But it takes months to buy corn in Iowa, truck it to Louisana or Detroit, and load it onto a ship bound for Ethiopia or North Korea. In an emergency, that process costs precious time and lives. And it’s incredibly expensive.
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I cannot imagine or remember any president in the history of this country ever declaring war on American jobs. The only people in modern history who called a U.S. president "anti-American" were members of the "John Birch Society".
You are correct. No credible source has ever claimed there's a war on American jobs.
this is insane. we feed dictatorships like north korea for decades, so the tyrant can build nuclear weapons and fire rockets and live lavishly while his people starve, except we feed them for him, so he can stay in power...on and on.
Just wondering about a fact from your article, "buying rice for Sri Lankans in Sri Lanka". If this is plausible, then why isn't the Sri Lanka government feeding it's own people? Doesn't sound like a food shortage to me.