Foreign aid is not a new term by any means. Northern countries have been giving aid to southern coun

When the average person thinks of foreign aid, he/she immediately thinks of starving children and homeless refugees. This is what the government wants you to think. Most governments that donate money to foreign aid want you to feel as if they are making a difference by donating money to societies of crisis. In actuality, most foreign aid money goes to NIC countries, or newly industrialized countries, These are countries like Columbia and Taiwan, which are not poor at all. These countrieds are booming industrious nations that are growing by leaps and bounds. The reason governments donate money to these societies is because they are beneficial to the rest of the northern world. Their economic status can boost that of the countries donating money to them. In fact, think-tank studies show that over $250 per person goes to relatively high-income countries, and less than $1 per person went to low-income countries (Taking Sides, 128).

Before we can afford to give aid and assistance to other countries, we must learn to deal with our own domestic problems. Here in America, the richest country in the world, we have starving, homeless, and sick people just like every other country. Instead of giving 15 billion dollars to other countries and not knowing where the money is going, we could very easily spend 15 billion dollars here at home and solve our own problems. For example, the money wasted in unsuccessful attempts to help these foreign countries could possibly be used to end America's welfare system. In James Grant's essay, he states that the United States needs to spend 20% of its budget on itw own people and 20% on foreign aid (Taking Sides, 124). However, the United States spends less than than ten percent of its budget on the "human needs of their people". It is preposterous to think that a country as large as the United States "must" give an extremely large amount of money to "save the chi

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