I had a discussions about foreign aid with an expert from DC who visited campus. My takeaway was that most "foreign aid" goes from govt's pockets to another bank account in DC or Delaware. When Ukraine received millions in food aid, the money went to a well-connected American company that sold food at 300% markup. Let's just leave it at that.
@AllenOne1 you are a true fiscal conservative and I respect that. There are plenty of fake conservatives on the forum who want 6,000 lbs luxury SUV tax write offs to continue but don't want young people to get a chance.
I'd care more about the young people if they weren't such gullible fools who blindly beg for their own enslavement and violently demand that those who are trying to keep freedom alive get gotten rid of so the ones wanting global tyranny rule unopposed.
I'd also care more about them if every time I saw some young puke talking on social media or the "news" they weren't talking a long streak about how much they hate me because of the skin I happened to be born in or the body I was born in that I accept, or demanding the government do bad things to me for thinking for myself and actually knowing what reality is. Oh and hating me for having worked hard my whole life to save and build up things and wanting the government to come take it all away at gunpoint (funny they hate me having guns but want the government to have guns to come take my stuff) on the odd chance it means a bit more for them.
While I'm not specifically saying this is you, here is what Can be safely applied as a broad brush to many young folks.
All this B.S. about "social justice" and "good socialism" that the young people lap up then vomit back out?
ALL you are doing is being the useful mob to help one group of elites take power from another group of elites.
The "new world" the pied pipers are promising all the young people with catchy slogans like "you will own nothing and you will be happy" and such... That is a new brutal world order that is very much like the old feudal order that young people who can't be bothered with history don't know about.
Giant global corporations run by the Super Elites will own everything with the blessing of the government and everybody else will be their slaves.
I'll bet they didn't mention that "insect protein" is actually not very compatible with humans and just like the "impossible meat" B.S. you're getting only a fraction of the actual clamed proteins into your body... but don't worry, the elites will eat the meat and good food while you get your gruel.
You'll get to live in some government approved hovel with barely any heat or cooling or light and walk or crowd onto public transport while the elites enjoy huge estates, private transportation and all the things you are now not allowed to have.
Now you can start with little and work hard and make something.
Under the new order, you will start with little, work hard and die with nothing
Young people whine and bitch about how they want their student loans "forgiven" at of course taxpayer expense... did they ever stop to think about why the cost of school was so high? Why the loans were so enslaving? Oh right all the democrats are the ones who voted for that (along with the rest of the politicians). You never see the Democrats actually saying hey this is a giant extortion plot designed to let our banking buddies get rich off the backs of the young and our politically connected "education" places get obscenely wealthy. I've yet to see one democrat actually say let's go back and fix the problem at the root by rewriting the insane loan terms the bankers got given as a corrupt gift from the government.
You don't see the Democrats asking why all these universities that are sitting on multi billon dollar endowments that could let them offer free education in perpetuity are jacking the cost of education at a staggering rate.
Nope it's all mean republicans who don't want to tax people even more to give free money to the big bankers and big educational corporations...
Sure I guess young women think the most important thing is to be able to kill their unborn children (or just born children, or even recently born children) as the ultimate end all and be all of women's rights.
I guess that makes up for living in fear of being raped, beaten, assaulted, kidnapped or murdered as crime spirals out of control thanks to the democrats they put in power... but hey at least you can get that abortion if you aren't killed when you are raped and robbed...
Young folks think it's so old fashioned to want to have families and children and such, well selfish fucks, who do you think is going to be around to do all the work, pay all the taxes and do all the caretaking when you get old? All those illegal immigrants? HA!
Oh wait, you think the Global Elites will be taking care of you for free with robots or something....
Enjoy watching Logan's Run play out in real life, you will have deserved it...
At this point in time the young people are pushing so hard for a new nightmare world, I almost want them to enjoy having it as long as I can sit off in the distance and laugh at their cries and suffering as they realize way too late what they actually demanded.