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Steve Rothman: “A lot of Americans wonder why we spend any money on foreign aid at all. Well, it is really very simple. Of course, we…”

On the recordJuly 15, 2004
A lot of Americans wonder why we spend any money on foreign aid at all. Well, it is really very simple. Of course, we have a humanitarian interest in making sure that people do not suffer, and we help our neighbors, not just those next door but across the border. But if one were to look at it purely selfishly, in America's national interest, we do not want people to go hungry. We do not want them to be brutalized by dictatorships. We do not want them to become resentful and frustrated and angry, and we do not want them to lash out at all of the powers in the world who live in a democracy and live in freedom, which is what we are facing now, people who have been deprived or who feel deprived, who have nothing to lose by giving up their lives, so they think, to destroy a world order that has ignored them.
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Steve Rothman
New Jersey
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Discussing the importance of foreign aid during a committee meeting.

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