should the USA cut off all foreign aid to other country's and what would happen if they did ?

Answer 1

The United States and its citizens are one of the largest contributors to third world countries. This fact is usually distorted by counting only American government contributions and ignoring the contributions of private citizens.

Be that as it may, there is a substantial body of evidence which would argue that, generally speaking, foreign charity is not helpful.

True, it often has very dramatic short term benefits. Who can, after all, argue with saving a child from starvation.

The problem is that the long term effects can be negative.

To begin with, saving that starving child means that she will grow up to become the mother of a dozen more children. The one thing this planet does not suffer from is any shortage of human beings. In my lifetime alone I have watched the world population go from 2 billion to over 7 billion. The overwhelming majority of that gigantic population explosion is from precisely the places that are constantly looking for the equivalent pf international welfare checks.

Second, foreign aid often wrecks the local economy. If, for example, you send vast amounts of food to a country and give it away for free, then local farmers cannot survive financially. What business can compete when its product is being given away for free? The result is that indigenous agriculturalists and pastoralists are impoverished, driven to the cities to survive and the foundation of the economy is destroyed.

While the short term effects of eliminating foreign aid would be unpleasant the long term effects might well be very good.

Answer 2

Are you aware that the vast majority of our foreign aid goes to Israel and Egypt, and helps keep the peace between those two countries? As far as purely humanitarian aid, the US is really not very generous considering our GNP, relative to other countries. If we cut off the aid that is really going for security purposes, mainly the aid to Israel and Egypt, that would probably lead to more wars, and likely increase our military expenditures more than the aid is costing us. If we cut off the humanitarian aid, that would increase human suffering around the world, and make people look on the US even more unfavorably than they do now, but it would not have a big financial impact on any country, since that kind of aid is fairly small.

So, NO, we should not cut off foreign aid. We should probably increase it.

Answer 3

No, as the only superpower and the richest nation on the planet, we have the moral obligation to aid those countries in need. If it was all cut off, those corrupt governments wouldn't be able to siphon out a lot of that aid as they do now, but a lot of people would starve.

Answer 4

Yes, cut off all foreign aid. I believe it is time for other countries to grow up and stop whining. They need to figure out how to solve their problems without leeching off of America. Maybe the world needs more revolutions to create the incubators of governments more inclined to constitutional republics.

Answer 5

no, they shouldn't cut off all foreign aid to all countries, only to some countries. (the ones that are not our true friends and the ones who harbor terrorists like the Palestinians and Syrians).
Good things would happen if we stopped paying these bastards so that if they want to continue to stab us in the back they will have to use their own money for that not ours.

Answer 6

Think about it this way : if a single government completely cut off your only food supply that you were now completely dependant on to feed your family wouldnt you get just a little angry?

Answer 7

What could they do?
frankly its likely that may happen as soon as this fall.
They expect birl flu to hit us this fall.
no body is getting anything if half the country is down sick...

Answer 8

No. More would die, than the astronomical amount dying daily now.

Answer 9

1 yes
2 we would pay less in taxes or get more benefits from them.

Answer 10

1-No
2-Complete world instability.