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It is Time to Say NO!
By Rob
Updated: September 16, 2012
BY RU Rob
Over the last week I have watched the insane, murderous uprising of extremist Muslims over a silly movie. I have watched terrorist groups use this opening and cover of civil unrest to further their individual agendas and have mourned the loss of American lives who were genuinely trying to help these countries we fiscally support. This whole mess really got me to thinking, maybe the good ole USA needs to use this uprising as a lesson to those who seem to want to abuse us and our generosity.
Now before you get all fired up, let me explain. When you were a child you really had no sense of wants and needs. When you went to the store with your parents and saw that really cool toy, you just had to have it. Most of the time your parents would say “no” as you really didn’t need it; it was more of a want. You were upset about it but in the long run you learned that there was a definitive difference between a need and a want and most of the time, wants could wait.
It is time for the US to be the parent and to teach the rest of the world the difference between needs and wants.
For example, in the wake of the uprising the US State Department wanted to bolster the security of its mission in the country of Sudan. The US had requested to send an additional 50 Marines into the country through normal diplomatic channels. Sudan’s response: “No.”
Well, little baby Sudan, why don’t we just remind you of a couple of things. For 2013 you have requested $40.6 million dollars in aid. And, just in case you didn’t know your average annual income per person, it is $2,400. Now, look at your estimated population of 40 million people and you can see that you are requesting that we give you enough money for a lot of your people’s annual income.
Ok so there is a civil war going on in Sudan, and the Darfur region is a hot mess. But it isn’t like we don’t have our own problems here to deal with. I am sure we could use that $40 million to help pay down our national debt, or something. Here is a start, maybe a pay raise for the 2.7 million federal civilian employees who haven’t seen one in the last 3 years.
Moving right along…
I am not going to spend a lot of time on lil’ brother Pakistan, they have more than $2.2 billion in requested aid for 2013. They have a couple of stellar accomplishments, like harboring the #1 terrorist in the world for years; jailed the doctor who helped us end the reign of said terrorist and had the balls to talk back to mommy and daddy when we decide it is time for Osamie to die. If I had the ability to bitch-slap a country, Pakistan would be the tops on my list.
Do you see where I am going with this? This aid is only through direct payment to individual countries. Let’s not even get started on the amount of economic assistance we provide through other means, like the influx of American dollars where our Armed Forces are stationed throughout the world. I guran-damn-tee you it is a shit-ton.
It is time for Mommy and Daddy to say NO, and not just a little no with a pat on little Jimmy’s head, but a firm and resounding NO. It is time to bring EVERYONE home, lock the doors and have some mandatory family fun. Let’s just see how the world reacts when the wallet of the United States closes. I am willing to bet the farm that behavior improves and these fucksticks just may learn a lesson in manners. Remember 25 years ago when Libya got out of line? We spanked their ass, sent them to their room and they were good, until we fucked up and started getting all apologetic. Just sayin!
Oh, and for all of you intellectuals out there…my numbers came from here. Because I just know there is someone out there who is incapable of googling it for themselves.
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Jon
September 16, 2012 at 10:50 am
All I have to say is “FUCK YES.” Hit it right on the nose, brother. All of these other bullshit countries can suck my dick. Yes, im fucking vulgar, offensive, and I generally just dont give a shit. The end. Semper Fi.
Hogan
September 18, 2012 at 3:13 pm
Abso-effing-lutely! They don’t want to play nice…fine. We’ll tke all our toys and go elsewhere…reminds me of the end of a Tom Clancy novel, where the bad=guy enviro-nazi’s were left in a hideous jungle in S. America…and then told “Go commune with nature.”
Madeline Monday
September 16, 2012 at 10:51 am
Amen!
Dbie
September 16, 2012 at 10:59 am
Damn straight.
Dave
September 16, 2012 at 11:00 am
All of that aid is borrowed money from China. The end of the credit line is coming sooner or later.
James Beal
September 16, 2012 at 11:02 am
THANK YOU! Ive been a firm believer in this for a LONG time.
Brandon
September 16, 2012 at 11:03 am
I have been saying this for a while. Why cant the politicians figure this out?
Michele Rash
September 16, 2012 at 11:07 am
I posted something similar (not as artful as rob) and was told i was perpetuating the blanket of hate. I love u RU Rob. I hope this happens. Its time to start taking care of our own!
Bill
September 16, 2012 at 11:11 am
How do we go about convincing the politicians to listen?! It would have to be all about “their idea” and how it could benefit them! They don’t give two ****’s about Federal employees, Servicemembers, Veterans, old folks (who have had their one hot meal a day cut by the gov’t!)…
They don’t care! They won’t care! Aside from the fact of losing a lot of convenient things… I’m thinking nothing will change until their is a radical exchange of politicians for patriots!
Evan
September 16, 2012 at 11:17 am
Damn Rob you voiced exactly what I was just thinking a few days ago. I say Hell Yeah!
Shane
September 16, 2012 at 11:28 am
Amen
Roger Wilco
September 16, 2012 at 11:54 am
After seeing that map, my question is why are we giving the entire freaking world money? Last time I checked, a lot of those countries aren’t even friendly, usually downright hostile to american interests. Aren’t you supposed to take care of family before giving it all away to strangers?
Mary
September 16, 2012 at 1:03 pm
AMEN!! From both me and my mother.
Justin
September 16, 2012 at 1:22 pm
Run for president and fix this broken pork barrel government. I’ll vote for you!
Alan
September 16, 2012 at 2:22 pm
Rob for PRESIDENT!!!!!!!
Jackie
September 16, 2012 at 9:35 pm
Not trolling, Rob; just an honest question: the concept sounds better than amazeballs on paper but, much like Communism, Isolationism doesn’t fly so well in practice (unless you happen to be Switzerland). At the very least, it hasn’t worked for *us* the last few times we’ve tried it.
So. Let’s say that the US does as you propose and takes its toys and cash and goes home. What would you have the government do and not-do to make it work and to prevent it from failing in the ways it did before?
I hope that made sense; I’m legitimately interested in hearing your thoughts on this one!
RU Rob
September 17, 2012 at 6:15 am
Jackie,
It is time to hit the reset button on our country. In my opinion too much emphasis is placed on college, and too many people who do go to college do not work in the field that they are trained in. It is time to totally revamp the education system, intall a working apprenticeship program so that we have a trained work force. Time to dust off all of those factories that have been shuttered and once again make America the world leader in manufacturing. We have the ability to be totally self-sufficient, all we need now is the desire.
We need to stop paying out benefits to the leaches of America. If you can work, you should be working and you should be compensated for your work. Minimum wage should be increased, and caps on health care costs should be implemented.
Our completely litigous society needs a lesson in…no as well. No more useless lawsuits for spilled coffee and slips and falls.
There are too many issues to cover them all, but here is where I would start.
Mr. Twisted
September 17, 2012 at 11:16 am
Jackie, it is a legitimate question that you ask. However, you need to qualify a statement such as this:
“At the very least, it hasn’t worked for *us* the last few times we’ve tried it.”
To which “times” would you be referring? We haven’t been “isolationist” since approximately 1801 when President Jefferson committed troops to fight the Barbary pirates. So I’m curious as to what point in history we have tried honest isolationism, and what that even means.
GP Burdell
September 17, 2012 at 9:33 pm
@MrTwisted
Hey there! A huge fan of the Den.
Actually, isolationism was American’s de facto foreign policy until 1941 (not just my opinion, officially stated by the US Department of State – http://history.state.gov/milestones/1937-1945/AmericanIsolationism).
It gets back to a belief that being proactive is better than being reactive.
Out of all the Middle Eastern “flare ups”, the Sudan is easily the most black and white in terms of pulling out.
But what would really happen if we left the majority of the other countries in this part of the world?
Just not a simple issue.
Owlish52
September 18, 2012 at 9:29 am
GP is correct about nominal American foreign policy, and it really took Pearl Harbor to get us out of the isolationist mindset. I’d agree that a total pullout sounds attractive, and would be at least emotionally attractive to most Americans (to say “STFU, Pakistan!” – priceless!), but I do not believe that a total pullout would be an appropriate course of action. A very few targeted complete pullouts (like Sudan) and sharp unilateral reductions (Pakistan), coupled with reductions and ‘serious consultations’ with other major recipients (Hello, Egypt – we need to talk…).
Foreign aid does not buy us friends, but it can buy us a degree of influence, even when that degree may be modest. But sometimes, we need to emphasize that our foreign assistance is based on _our_ interests, and when a nation chooses not to respond appropriately, the spigot can, should and will be closed. Examples need to be provided, as talking the talk does not always work.
Mike Porvaznik
September 18, 2012 at 9:53 am
We don’t need to get out of most countries, we just need to stop sending them cash and send them goods, services, and other items that we make in the US and put our citizens back to work making good old American goods and send them to these countries. The money we send never winds up in the hands of the people it’s intended for anyways.
TygeRInfantrY
September 17, 2012 at 12:38 am
I’m all about IT ROB! F*ck the bullshit, so many of these countries are helping a very small percentage of people rich & powerful, while the rest of their country starves or kills itself. We need to AT LEAST let them know we CAN PULL IN THE REIGNS and leave them with a bad taste of sh*t in their mouths.
Terry
September 17, 2012 at 1:04 am
AMEN
Cecilio Mendez
September 18, 2012 at 8:28 am
Totally agree… but… The people at the helm are a lot of spineless blabbermouths. I bet they WILL NOT do anything; other than pointing fingers and feeling good about their own words. All the while, true Americans die on the battlefields.
Mike Porvaznik
September 18, 2012 at 9:50 am
Hey Rob, let’s try this on for size and see if it works. Instead of sending money to these countries that hate us and even the ones that still like us, let’s set up an account for each one of them in the Bank of the United States. We can then talk with them and find out what their countries need in the way of goods, food, agricultural items, etc. and offer them the opportunity to shop for those items in the United States. When they make a purchase, the goods are paid for from their Bank of US account. No money leaves our country, the government can pay a US manufacturer for producing whatever it is these countries buy and we can dust off the factories, etc. and put our US citizens back to work and we won’t worry about it. If the country chooses to sell the goods or items once it reaches their country, who cares, our government has done their job and our people are back to work.
Old Corps 1F
September 18, 2012 at 10:42 am
Sign the eviction notice, Vote in November.
SnakebitN
September 18, 2012 at 12:13 pm
My thought’s are shut all the embassy’s except with our allies bring everybody else home.After that no one gets in and one chance to get out and stay out.Shut the borders down and we & our allies will figure out how to make it on our own.All this confiscated drug money thats is supposedly in evidence room’s be put to good use.Everybody else can fend for themselves for awhile.If you are a millionaire,billionaire or greater guess what it is time to annie up.Politician the same you get what we get,you pay what we pay.Past Presidents & future ones the same no special programs,no lifetime security,no free money to be sat up in your own business.You have to dodge bullet’s like the rest of us do.
Firefighter Matt
September 18, 2012 at 7:32 pm
I am sick of my brothers and sisters losing jobs to other countries. It is time to get OUR people back to work. Manufacturing and printing businesses used to be booming in my home state now they are being shuttered for cheaper products from foreign countries.
On the same token I would love to have ALL of my brothers and sisters come home for good. Let these backward camel fuckers deal with the problems they created, fuck em. I don’t want to see my friends come home from these other ungrateful countries only to find no jobs. That is bullshit, WE the United States of America are the greatest country in the world, lets start acting like it and quit apologizing for it. Thanks for letting me rant.
Herb1949
September 19, 2012 at 11:20 am
For GP Burdell.
No, this country was not isolationist before WWII. There was the Lend-Lease program, we had cut off as much raw materials to Japan and everything else possible we could to hamper their effort, and had done everything possible to assist England, short of actually going to war.
So, there actually has never been a time we were in a true isolationist mode.
Do we need to be now, maybe not. What we do need is to stop proping up countries that give us a hard time. We do not need to be spending the billions of dollars to keep our military forces overseas.
It costs twice as much to have a military member stationed overseas as it does to have them stationed in CONUS.
Are we really getting our money’s worth from the foriegn aid and the troops stationed in other countries????
I don’t believe so.
For those of on here that agree with the author, did you support Ron Paul. His platform had planks in it for stopping foreign aid, and bringing the vast majority of the military home. If you didn’t support him, then you don’t really agree with the author.
Demandra
September 19, 2012 at 1:19 pm
As long as billionaires continue to profit from conflict and aid packages (which they do mightily), no such logical response such as yours will occur. As always, follow the dollar. This time, not to the country in “need” but to the folks profiting off of such arrangements.
Cobalt Spider
September 19, 2012 at 6:12 pm
Let me get this straight, Rob. We give money to every last dammed nation on the planet except Australia, Iceland, Canada, France, Britain, and IRAN? Holy sweet Jesus! Our politicians are playing fast and loose with money they don’t personally own. Hell, my kids are going to be paying down $477,660,000 to South Africa. I’m all for helping people, but we’re in some debt. You gotta cut back on the credit card spending.
Think what you want about the POTUS. I can’t piss on the Commander in Chief’s shoes. November will decide who’s boss. Right now, someone needs to reign in congress, cause those fat bastards control funding for every last operation and mission. They control Aid to Pakistan, Lybia, Egypt, and every last America Hating country you can name.
“Free” trip to the Bahamas? They’ll take it. Aid package for your country? Sure thing! The gift policy and campaign contribution ability that corporations and foreign nationals can make to our “elected leaders” is staggering. I want my country back. ALL of it. Both parties are under notice. Rob. Keep up the good work!
Sometimes a world map can make a man cry. Other times it just makes us mad as hell!
Liz Adame
September 20, 2012 at 7:05 pm
God, how I LOVE the way you talk!
Ted N
September 28, 2012 at 10:44 am
Whoa whoa whoa. If I’m not spending every other year in somebody else’s shitty country, what the hell am I going to do? I’ll end up being home for all these “holidays” things everybody else is talking about, shit like anniversaries and birthdays and some kind of Christmas type thing. I’m not too sure about this plan…
Mike Bandy
October 27, 2012 at 5:39 pm
Totally agree, Rob. I don’t look at it so much as isolationism as it is being good stewards of our resources.
The Biblical phrase is to “not cast your pearls before swine”. The gist of it being don’t give what you find worthwhile to people who won’t be appreciative or grateful. The examples you’ve listed certainly seem to fit in this mold.
Enjoyed the article. Keep up the good work.