--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
... it suggests that private donations to a foreign country are
a net loss to the U.S. economy. True?
Not true.
The bottom line in economics is utility, and the donors get more utility
from their donations than alternative expenditures, so they are better off.
And why do our politicians persist in
throwing good money after bad when it is so obviously
counterproductive? Is NOT intuitively obvious. As a Zionist,
albeit a supporter of the Oslo Process, I would ask why the support of
Israel is so obviously counter-productive?
.obviously counterproductive?
Why? You see NO benefits at all from these expenditures, is not one the
fall of the Soviet Union? We countered each effort of the Soviet Union to expand in the cold
war. So funds spent back as far as 1973 helped in that
effort. Is fall of USSR a benefit that
