Exchange of e-mails with Sen. Hutchison:
You responded to my earlier e-mail by saying,
"Thank you for contacting me regarding the budget for foreign operations. I welcome your thoughts and comments on this issue."
"The United States has a long history of extending a helping hand to those people overseas struggling to make a better life, to recover from a disaster, or to live in a free and democratic country. It is this caring that stands as a hallmark of the United States around the world."
"The annual State-Foreign Operations appropriations bill is the primary legislative vehicle through which Congress funds U.S. international affairs operations. This is a critical bill because by providing funds for our State Department and foreign operations, we have an opportunity to help shape the world's perception of our nation."
"As Congress considers future funding, my support for any foreign aid component will continue to be predicated on its relevance to national security and other important U.S. interests."
"I appreciate hearing from you and hope you will not hesitate to keep in touch on any issue of concern to you."
Caring and helping are fine, but pumping someone else's money down a rat hole is obscene, irresponsible, and immoral.
We have a human responsibility to help those who are trying to help themselves and to do so in such a manner as to be effective. 70 years of Foreign Aid have been ineffective, and it's long past time to reevaluate our strategy.
In these times of tremendous self-imposed debt, such as you and your fellow Senators are working on with respect to health care and global warming, there is little justification that we help others, when we can't help ourselves. This is what I call an abuse of compassion. It means helping others to the extent that one is unable to care for one's own self. Under those conditions everything goes down the drain.
Sec. Chu is going to give the people in Africa sun powered lamps. How ridiculous can one get?
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Monday, December 14, 2009
Chu's New US Dollar Giveaway
E-mail to Congress:
EIN News says, "U.S. Unveils Plan to Rev Up Clean Technology in Poor Nations. Energy Secretary Steven Chu will announce on Monday an international plan to deploy clean technology in developing countries, a $350 million, five-year effort that will include everything from putting solar lanterns in poor households to promoting advanced energy-efficient appliances worldwide, administration officials said. (washingtonpost.com)".
Here we have another example of financial stupidity. We can't take care of ourselves, as evidenced by our tremendous government debt and our continuing annual budget deficits. Still we want to give money away. Why? To go deeper into debt? Nation building?
We have been involved in foreign aid for about 70 years. The only two nations which were successful in developing into major class economic entities were the former enemies Germany and Japan. Those countries were able to do well economically on their own, until they took on a military strategy of world domination, and we were forced to obliterate their productive capacity. They were able to recover not only because of US financial help, but because they had basic capabilities within their people.
Conversely, the so-called poor countries of the world have been soaking up financial aid like a sponge, without any progress to establishing a better lifestyle. It may be because of unstable governments or other political factors, but more likely it is because of the basic incapacity of the population.
In any event, it is ridiculous to keep pumping money into these so-called "developing" countries. If they want to develop, let their representatives visit US farming and industry establishments and learn from those successful productive enterprises how to do it. If US government compassion is such that they have to spend money, let a little be spent on airfares and hotels, while they study the US system. Let us also be sure that they are studying the basics and not present US government philosophy and operations, which are destined to ruin the US.
Steven Chu is one of the most misguided individuals in US government. We have here a very serious energy problem of unwillingness to develop our oil and gas resources and our fascination with the myth that man-made changes of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere materially contribute to climate change. Chu should be thrown out of office, and if that is not possible because of political intrigues, some effort should be made to realign is thinking to concentrate on US interests, rather than the rest of the world, which has the responsibility of improving itself.
May I also remind you that you have the responsibility of Chu's foreign action. He doesn't get this money out of thin air. If he gives away $350 million, it is because you (Congress) have authorized it.
EIN News says, "U.S. Unveils Plan to Rev Up Clean Technology in Poor Nations. Energy Secretary Steven Chu will announce on Monday an international plan to deploy clean technology in developing countries, a $350 million, five-year effort that will include everything from putting solar lanterns in poor households to promoting advanced energy-efficient appliances worldwide, administration officials said. (washingtonpost.com)".
Here we have another example of financial stupidity. We can't take care of ourselves, as evidenced by our tremendous government debt and our continuing annual budget deficits. Still we want to give money away. Why? To go deeper into debt? Nation building?
We have been involved in foreign aid for about 70 years. The only two nations which were successful in developing into major class economic entities were the former enemies Germany and Japan. Those countries were able to do well economically on their own, until they took on a military strategy of world domination, and we were forced to obliterate their productive capacity. They were able to recover not only because of US financial help, but because they had basic capabilities within their people.
Conversely, the so-called poor countries of the world have been soaking up financial aid like a sponge, without any progress to establishing a better lifestyle. It may be because of unstable governments or other political factors, but more likely it is because of the basic incapacity of the population.
In any event, it is ridiculous to keep pumping money into these so-called "developing" countries. If they want to develop, let their representatives visit US farming and industry establishments and learn from those successful productive enterprises how to do it. If US government compassion is such that they have to spend money, let a little be spent on airfares and hotels, while they study the US system. Let us also be sure that they are studying the basics and not present US government philosophy and operations, which are destined to ruin the US.
Steven Chu is one of the most misguided individuals in US government. We have here a very serious energy problem of unwillingness to develop our oil and gas resources and our fascination with the myth that man-made changes of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere materially contribute to climate change. Chu should be thrown out of office, and if that is not possible because of political intrigues, some effort should be made to realign is thinking to concentrate on US interests, rather than the rest of the world, which has the responsibility of improving itself.
May I also remind you that you have the responsibility of Chu's foreign action. He doesn't get this money out of thin air. If he gives away $350 million, it is because you (Congress) have authorized it.
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