Comments by "Matuse" (@Matuse) on "JUST IN: Rand Paul Gives Epic Warning On Debt, Takes Aim At GOP Colleagues For Increasing Spending" video.

  1. Foreign Aid is how America supports itself. Every dollar leaving in Foreign Aid comes back triple in overseas sales by American companies. Plus of course, the goodwill. China is already stepping in to fill in the gaps that the US is abandoning. How will those people and those countries feel about the ones who betrayed them, and the ones who swoop in to save them? Closing USAID is the worst policy decision since invading Iraq in 2003.
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  2.  @deedees12  Like all republicans, you have absolutely no idea where Federal money is spent. I'll bet you are one of those people that thinks 10+% of the federal budget goes to foreign aid, aren't you?
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  3. You can blame Reagan for that.
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  4.  @rockinredneck57  We don't borrow money from China. You don't understand the simplest things. US Bonds are sold - China buys some of them. Nowhere near the same thing.
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  5.  @TechnoArtful-tk2yh  Yes, those things make housing more scarce. And government employees absolutely do contribute to the economy. Where do you get these delusions from?
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  6.  @calvincoolidge5545  Before USAID, the world was a very different place. You cannot compare. And whether foreign aid helps people like us more, withholding that money will absolutely make them hate us more. Why do you support China hegemony? It's not just money coming back - foreign governments will not cooperate, witholding intelligence, not allowing basing, buying arms elsewhere, helping adversary countries avoid sanctions...it's a long list, and it's all been sabotaged by total incompetence.
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  7.  @colbyrulesmydoggie4839  No he's not. Republicans only care about the debt when a democrat is in the White House.
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  8. Enjoy it when the cost of food doubles. Crops are already rotting in the fields because the workers who used to harvest them have been deported. It's only going to get much worse.
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  9. They aren't finding anything. DOGE doesn't exist to cut spending, it exists to line Musk's pockets.
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  10.  @luciddream2033  You misunderstood what he said.
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  11. You don't understand what DOGE is. It is designed to give autocratic control to the president, and let Musk line his pockets with billions of dollars in taxpayer money. That's it. Nothing else.
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  12. Rand has voted for every tax cut to corporations and billionaires. He's directly responsible for the size of the national deficit and debt.
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  13.  @BonnieBlue2A  A common lie from republicans with no basis in truth. What is actually true is that the orange stain spent a quarter of his first term in office golfing, and send the bills to the taxpayers for all the money spent there. When he went to France, he didn't stay in France, he stayed at his resort in Scotland, costing the taxpayers millions in extra travel expenses with AF1, and again - pocketing all the money himself.
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  14.  @boscodog4358  So you think the Pentagon shouldn't get 800 billion? Oh, right, you meant OTHER insane spending. Gotcha.
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