Vanessa Mesa
Professor Thomas Glaser
Period 2/ #G27
11th March 2015
Foreign Aid: Does it help or hurt us and/ or them? Foreign aid is a financial help to other countries in need of money. Those monies are then distributed into different sections to benefit the country and its people. Will the United States lose money? What will it gain? The United States government spends only about 1% of our U.S budget, in aiding these foreign countries. This 1% of our federal budget contributes to the development of foreign countries, their militia, and serves as humanitarian helpers. It has been demonstrated that aiding foreign countries can help set off to a good start in improving the countries finances. In helping Africa, it has shown that this country is now working and …show more content…
Unfortunately, there are tsunamis, hurricanes, cyclones, earthquakes, tornadoes and many more that affect these already poor stricken countries that don't have much to begin with. These foreign countries do not even have financial resources to begin with to even start rebuilding the countries. Due to these natural disasters, people have lost their lives, their loved ones, have been left homeless and in total devastation. Americans have aided these foreign countries in their most devastating times by supplying food, clean water, sanitation, and some sort of shelter, in addition to monetary help such as, donations from the Unites States citizens and all over the world. Harry Truman once said, “We must embark on a bold new program for making the benefits of our scientific advances and industrial progress available for the improvement and growth of underdeveloped areas. More than half the people of the world are living in conditions approaching misery. Their food is inadequate. They are victims of disease. Their economic life is primitive and stagnant. Their poverty is a handicap and a threat both to them and to more prosperous
Professor Thomas Glaser
Period 2/ #G27
11th March 2015
Foreign Aid: Does it help or hurt us and/ or them? Foreign aid is a financial help to other countries in need of money. Those monies are then distributed into different sections to benefit the country and its people. Will the United States lose money? What will it gain? The United States government spends only about 1% of our U.S budget, in aiding these foreign countries. This 1% of our federal budget contributes to the development of foreign countries, their militia, and serves as humanitarian helpers. It has been demonstrated that aiding foreign countries can help set off to a good start in improving the countries finances. In helping Africa, it has shown that this country is now working and …show more content…
Unfortunately, there are tsunamis, hurricanes, cyclones, earthquakes, tornadoes and many more that affect these already poor stricken countries that don't have much to begin with. These foreign countries do not even have financial resources to begin with to even start rebuilding the countries. Due to these natural disasters, people have lost their lives, their loved ones, have been left homeless and in total devastation. Americans have aided these foreign countries in their most devastating times by supplying food, clean water, sanitation, and some sort of shelter, in addition to monetary help such as, donations from the Unites States citizens and all over the world. Harry Truman once said, “We must embark on a bold new program for making the benefits of our scientific advances and industrial progress available for the improvement and growth of underdeveloped areas. More than half the people of the world are living in conditions approaching misery. Their food is inadequate. They are victims of disease. Their economic life is primitive and stagnant. Their poverty is a handicap and a threat both to them and to more prosperous