It's Time To Provide Foreign Aid To The United States

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Foreign Aid is aid given from the United States government to other governments for economic, technical, and military assistance. The United States distributes approximately $36,559,531,080 to countries that are administered assistance. We provide foreign assistance to furnish global tranquility, stabilization, and also provide improved human welfare. Over the years foreign assistance has been viewed as positive and a new way for relations to be formed with other countries.It all began in 1948, The Marshall Plan was the first plan to deal with foreign aid, and the goal was to help underdeveloping countries. The State Department had stated to sustaining a peaceful and prosperous world, and have certainly been keeping everything in control, but the aid is working in some …show more content…
One of the goals of American foreign policy according to the State Department, is to foster conditions for stability and progress for the benefit of the American people and people everywhere. The U.S isn’t being real effective with the apportioning of the foreign aid in this manner. The aid that is provided is used for drugs that seep into the U.S, which totally affects the fight on drugs in our nation. In Columbia, the U.S provides aid to fight the cocaine problem ,which amounts to $185,460,000. With

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