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>>The US only gives about 0.17% of their GNI while most european countries are giving way more than that.
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>>Walter,
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>And your point is? .17% of ours is probably equal to the entire GNI of most european countires. The world is lucky you get anything from us, they take with one hand and bad-mouth with the other; if I had my way, foreign aid would dry up, the Arabs could eat their non-sellable oil for supper and the rest can go to hell. The problem is we don't have any politicians with the gonads to do anything about it.

And then your entire economy would collapse ...

The error of your post in respect to US foreign aid is that you think it is done altruistically when actually virtually all aid given by any country comes with expectations of some roi.