Word: foreign-aid
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...into a remote village in Turkey. "I got it both ways," he once told GQ magazine. "When I die I'll go immediately to the presence of God, and yet in life I had a blast." Samaritan's Purse, like a few similar organizations, has been criticized in the foreign-aid community for evangelizing in situations when lifesaving should have been paramount. (General Norman Schwarzkopf has also sniped in print about Franklin's insistence on sending thousands of Arabic-language New Testaments into Saudi Arabia while the general was trying hard to honor Islamic sensibilities during Operation Desert Storm...
...enemy, according to Buchanan, is not the welfare state. It is that conservative icon, capitalism, with its ruthless captains of industry, greedy financiers and political elites (Republicans included, of course). All three groups collaborate to let foreigners--immigrants, traders, parasitic foreign-aid loafers--destroy the good life of the ordinary American worker...
...Congress is setting off even louder alarms. Freshmen legislators are so focused on their domestic agenda--the Contract with America has no foreign-policy provisions--that diplomacy has little value for them "except as a great place for drive-by shootings of the Clinton Administration," says a former Reagan Administration official. The new arrivals want to slash funding for the U.N. and cut the number of U.S. embassies abroad--some have talked about using the foreign-aid budget to build a big fence around the country--but they back higher military spending. "They figure we ought to basically tell other...
Hoping to keep his party from being pegged as Earth bashers, Newt Gingrich, who once interrupted a day of foreign-aid budget cutting in the House to ask his fellow Republicans to restore money to protect the African elephant, has established a Republican Task Force on the Environment, manned by moderates like Boehlert and Maryland's Wayne Gilchrest. The group has yet to meet...
Among many programs Kasich recommended killing was the Overseas Private Investment Corp., a $34 million-a-year agency venture that promotes exports to countries where U.S. businesses have been reluctant to operate. The Republican House formally endorsed its demise in foreign-aid legislation as well. How did the appropriators respond? By more than doubling opic's budget. The Budget Committee also recommended doing away with the Energy Department entirely. But if the energy subcommittee gets its way, the department will be cut by a mere 6% next year, or $940 million...