My share in Facebook banters. In Friends’ Page/s.
<>U.S. Aid to Other Countries.
“GAVE it all to foreigners" requires some elaboration.
<>Foreign aid or USAid. Each time a development aid is handed out, an economic quid pro quo ensues. Zoom in on bilateral talks priorities, import/export. Etcetera. Military aid is meant to protect US corporate interests in a region in competition with a rival superpower or trade bloc. In most cases, "aid" only favors the leadership in a recipient country as stipulated in the quid pro quo, though not divulged to the public. Aid doesn't really benefit the people. <>Record number of migrants who almost randomly cross/ed the border. Asylum approval is fine but the massive border breaches are now a huge budget crisis. These undocumented migrants gain benefits, true. But the powers that reap gargantuan benefits are usually ignored in favor of partisanship politics. <>In all it is all about how the U.S. government deals with foreign policy and immigration, which could change, per change in leadership. 🏛🗽🏛
<>Guns Guns Guns.
I WAS exposed to kin who were war veterans and law enforcement officers when I was younger. An uncle taught me how to use guns, especially .45 pistol and Armalite rifle. Yet I grew up and old not wanting one in my hand or ownership. As a young journalist, I covered narcos raids, gang violence (crime beat), countryside wars, and coup d'etats. I saw deaths, buried some, and mourned many. I don't like guns because I experienced what firearms are capable of. Yet I am not against arms per se as a defensive weapon, obtained strictly and safely kept at home.
But in America, especially with a high level of mental health ailments and heightened degree of hate, 120.5 ownership per 100 is just too much. This is an American cancer with seemingly no cure because, like others crisis areas, it is tackled as a Left vs. Right wrestle more than it is a danger zone for all of us. ☮️☮️☮️
