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The Senate this week passed another stunning foreign aid package that is likely to face a bumpy road in the House. The aid package spends billions of taxpayer dollars on countries everywhere to help fight their wars and defend their borders.
The fact that this aid package passed in the early morning hours of Tuesday, thanks in part to attempts by Senators J.D. Vance, Rand Paul, and Mike Lee to tie up the vote through the filibuster, is a testament to the division within the Republican Party. When it comes to aid and foreign policy. But unfortunately, there were enough Republican war hawks to align with the Democrats to pass the aid package anyway.
The question is how far the package will reach in the House of Representatives? If you ask Matt Walsh, not only should it have been dead on arrival, its passage in the Senate should have been illegal.
History lesson
Conservative commentator Matt Walsh went to X this week to deliver a master class on the founding of our nation and why the concept of foreign aid, in general, is the antithesis of what our founders wanted for our country.
he wrote:
“Foreign aid, by definition, is taxation without representation.”
For those who need a refresher on American history, taxation without representation was a huge problem for the Founders and those who fought for our independence from England. Mr. Walsh explains:
“Taxpayers fund foreign governments without having any say in how the money is used.”
Later, Mr. Walsh describes in detail what is happening essentially at the expense of the American people for the benefit of foreign governments:
“It should fill you with anger to think that food is being taken from your children's plates and sent straight to foreign bureaucrats to be used as they see fit, in ways that will never benefit you or your family.”
As if anyone needed a punctuation statement to explain the insanity of having foreign governments rain down American tax dollars, Mr. Walsh wrote:
“This country was literally formed to stop this kind of injustice.”
However, the Senate believes that their mission is to send US dollars to foreign lands.
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Not your purpose
Early Tuesday morning, the Senate approved a massive $95.3 billion in aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer patted himself and his colleagues on the back with the following statement:
It has been years, perhaps decades, since the Senate passed a bill that significantly affects not only our national security, the security of our allies, but also the security of Western democracy.
It is worth noting that Taiwan and Israel do not belong to the West, and that Ukraine's claim to democracy is fragile at best.
Republican Senator Mitch McConnell added this question in an attempt to bully Republican senators and congressmen into submission:
“Will we give those who wish to do us harm more reason to question our resolve, or will we recommit to the exercise of American power?”
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Finally, the most ridiculous statement came from the Senate from Republican Jerry Moran of Kansas, who said while holding back tears:
“…More often than not, there are issues that come before us that seem to explain why we are here.”
It's hard to believe that when the good citizens of Kansas elected Senator Moran to represent them in D.C., they hoped he would follow Mitch McConnell's orders like a lemming and sign his name on blank foreign aid checks.
What would TJ think?
When the United States was first born, the idea was never to interfere in the affairs of foreign countries. The great Thomas Jefferson once said:
“I am in favor of free trade with all nations, of having no political relations with any, and of little or no diplomatic institutions. I am not in favor of binding ourselves by new treaties to the quarrels of Europe, or entering the field of carnage to preserve its balance, or joining a league of kings for war against Principles of freedom.
Yet here we are, as Mr. Jefferson once warned, entirely financially tied to the squabbles of Europe. The argument that the world has become smaller since the birth of our great country is not only an understatement but also true.
However, the argument that the unimaginable expenditure of taxpayer money in the name of preserving “Western democracy” and “national security” is laughable when compared to the little that has been spent on our open borders. Countless bad actors from foreign lands who wish to do us harm can wander right into our country.
Meanwhile, the likes of Mitch McConnell are trying to argue that it is the failure to fund Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan that shows weakness on the international stage.
Matt Walsh wrote:
“The entire foreign aid system is corrupt, immoral and evil.”
Don't let politicians fool you; Their quest to send your hard-earned money abroad has nothing to do with preserving freedom, and everything to do with their own personal interests.
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