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5. Prioritizing foreign aid over domestic spending *does* call one's loyalty into question
Wed Sep 21, 2016, 07:57 AM
Sep 2016

No, it's not a slam dunk. But when the GOP makes the argument that "we can't afford" a few million for this or that domestic program and then promptly hands a no-strings-attached check for $38B to a foreign power, then a third-party observer might be forgiven for concluding that the GOP holds Israel in higher esteem than the US.

If I told my wife that we can't afford to pay the $100 gas bill this month but then went out and spent $100 on sports bobbleheads, does it seem unlikely that she'd question my priorities?

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