Those people need help and too many
have been foreclosed.

I used to drive through the developments
and wish I could afford those houses. I
am now glad that I couldn't. I could
have been me underwater.

Keep money in America. Let us be
Progressive!

11.8 We support the elimination of foreign aid.

http://www.iowagop.org/about#platform

They want to "keep the money in America", too. Obviously they would not do anything progressive with it here in the US but their attitude towards foreign aid is the same.

Then we get treated like Egypt, like bankers, etc.

As long as we're sheep, we'll be treated like sheep. As food.

If you look at what we have spent over the years in the middle east, and at the changes there over the past year, if another billion buys a stable democratic ally then its well worth it. The timing seems to be at a critical point - and there have been many times where no amount of money or effort would do any good at all. An unstable theocratic enemy could cost us a whole lot more than that!

Do you honestly think that a government controlled by Al-Ikhwan Al-Muslimeen will be stable? The new Egyptian government is on the verge of ethnic cleansing against the Coptic Christians with reports of literal crucifixions taking place, they shut down the last remaining synagogue in Egypt (the first time in 2000 years there has been no functional synagogue in Egypt), are crushing women's rights and freedom of speech, and are flirting with breaking the peace treaty with Israel by sending tanks into the Sinai. This is a disaster waiting to happen and we are their enablers.

be taken seriously (as in 'being listened to when they talk about STOPPING all that'), otherwise...

Maybe it's the only way to be 'listened' to (what else could be done? Surely not military agression, hmmm?).

But rewarding this behavior with money seems to send the wrong message.

'there might be another one (billion write off) if you do'

McCain would just (pressure R/R to) send troops (to die) there, don't you think?

Purity isn't of this world (sadly).

then you got the money, it shouldn't be the other way around.

Totally agree.

basically. Most people know we give Israel billions, but not that many know that we give Egypt almost as much.

If another billion positions us for some kind of exit strategy from that whole situation, then it is well worth it.

I can not see how writing off some sovereign debt that will never be recovered anyway would preclude writing down some domestic mortgage debt. But both will be met with howls of moral hazard.

the level of chaos that would ensue?

...as an example of problems a "reset" switch might cause.

There are only 8 countries in the world that produce enough food to allow significant exports, and the US is one. What would happen if we just reset the whole financial infrastructure behind world food production? I don't know myself, but I'd be surprised to see improvements - as in, more food and lower costs.

The question is,...to WHO...

which Karl Rove is likely spending to defeat Obama right now!