How does spending our tax dollars in assistance to foreign countries benefit the American people?
For over 40 years, USAID programs have helped to improve the lives of the poor in developing countries and to lessen the kind of poverty and disenfranchisement that can feed international terrorism and the flow of illegal immigrants to the United States. USAID programs also work on transnational issues such as global climate change and HIV/AIDs that affect us all as residents of the planet. More stable and prosperous nations also make better trading partners for the United States, and economic support to developing countries therefore advances our commercial interests around the world. The humanitarian assistance and contributions in health and education also create tremendous good will for the American people and the United States, which is especially important to us now with our ever-increasing global interconnectedness. For all of these reasons, Development is now part of the U.S. Governments national security plan.
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