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| Beto O'Rourke: U.S. Needs to Send Financial Aid to Stabilize Central America |
| 2018-10-22 |
| [Breitbart] Sunday on ABC’s "This Week," U.S. Senate candidate Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-TX) said America needed to send financial aid to stabilize Central America to decrease asylum-seeking immigrants. O’Rourke said, "If things are so desperate in Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, that someone would risk their lives to come here than what can we do to improve situations there? We have invested trillions of dollars for wars in the Middle East. Could we invest some fraction of that to provide the stability in Northern triangle counties of Central America make sure people have a reason to stay and raise their families where they were born?" |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #13 ..nah, they'd rather rule in hell than serve in heaven. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2018-10-22 15:42 |
| #12 If we were to send financial aid, the nation so benefiting should become a US territory with the US in total control over everything McArthur like until things are cleaned up and the nation can stand on its own. I suspect most politicians, given that option, would clean house before they were humiliated by being replaced by the Yankee. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2018-10-22 13:40 |
| #11 Ban all money transfers to those countries, including Mexico, and watch the illegal immigration drop to zero. |
| Posted by: Sonny Lumumba7455 2018-10-22 13:14 |
| #10 We have compromised so many times on protecting our sovereignty that the obvious makes many shocked. Put the military on the border and be prepared to use force to stop this invasion. Otherwise, we are done as a nation. Enough! |
| Posted by: NoMoreBS 2018-10-22 12:41 |
| #9 Following up on Bobby: if you start from the premise that anyone who can hoof it over the border without any, er, formalities is entitled to the full US benefit package, access to the world's best economy, and the inalienable right to vote Democrat, then the follow-on question has to be: why make them hoof it over the border? |
| Posted by: Matt 2018-10-22 12:14 |
| #8 Let Communist China do it! If we are running a deficit funded by borrowing from foreigners let them pay for it -- cut out the middle man and improve efficiency. |
| Posted by: magpie 2018-10-22 11:19 |
| #7 Painting swastikas on US flags and then burning them. That is who is about to invade the US. |
| Posted by: Ebbavirt Clunk4147 2018-10-22 11:15 |
| #6 When Mrs. Bobby expresses sympathy for the less fortunate trying to get into the U.S., I ask her when we will start flying in 'poor people' from the Sudan, and why not business class? |
| Posted by: Bobby 2018-10-22 09:53 |
| #5 More failed experiments in self-governing subsidized states. - Talk - Capital Aid - Surgical strike military intervention - Abandonment Easier to pass the festering problem along to the next generation than bear the responsibility of resolution. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2018-10-22 09:36 |
| #4 Subsidies only get more of what you are trying to stop. Free uncle Sam money means more corrupt governments, more fighting for it, more death, more torture, etc. Just look to Africa as an example. The countries that take the most aid are hellholes while the ones that didn't are doing ok if not outright thriving. Cut off all of Central America. Immediately. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2018-10-22 09:36 |
| #3 Send them your money, you creep, not my money. |
| Posted by: Whiskey Mike 2018-10-22 09:10 |
| #2 ...and if you do it for Central America, why not bail out California, Illinois,..et al? Another Magic Money Tree(tm) solution from the Left. Until the underlying destructive social order is exorcised, its just good money after bad. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2018-10-22 07:31 |
| #1 Because it's worked so well in the past. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2018-10-22 07:11 |