Don't blame me, I voted for the other guy. (Politics General)

@Cirrus Light  

 
So Mexico’s coffers don’t go down one dime over the contruction of the wall? It’s still being made using US money?
 
Also forgive my ignorance, but are we sending foreign aid to Mexico?

@Dustcan
 
Yeah, the USA is sending foreign aid to Mexico. Atleast in the height of 400 million USD.
 
*yearly

@Chef Unionista ZGU  

 
Which all goes to the police and military so they can ostensibly capture drug lords.

@AaronMk
 
Actually, 348 million of those USD go to economic aid rather than security/military aid.

@Mikey  
InfoWars.com is still pretty much alive and well.

@Chef Unionista ZGU
 
Thanks.
 
Still, that’s 400 million a year that can go anywhere. Like fixing our aging infrastructure. Or increasing teacher salaries. Or putting us on the road to healthcare reform. That’s a lot of money better spent on improving lives already here rather than keeping others out.

@Dustcan
 
But the foreign aid was being shoveled in since 2013 at the 400 million size.
 
To just cut the foreign funding like that would plunge Mexico into more issues, which would generate more refugees, illegal border crossings (crime) and potentionally (*most likely) hurt U.S. American investors who have invested into Mexican markets. And when markets of a neighbor are hurt (Mexico is not a “very poor state”, but rather a economically well developing one, despite noticeable poverty), this causes global economic damage that will hurt the USA in the end.
 
So, pulling the foreign aid would be more expensive in the end.
 
(*Mexico imports goods and services in the value of 200 million USD from the USA, making it it’s most important trading partner)

@AnCapSaiyan  
Yeah by I don’t think people pay attention to him anymore. Alex Jones is not someone people should take seriously, though I don’t think he should have been deplatformed. If people are sane enough they would have let him fade into obscurity.

@Chef Unionista ZGU  

 
No, that’s less than half the total aid. A considerable bulk of which goes directly to armed security. But that even then 58% of the non-security/military aid is spent to subsidize Mexico’s criminal justice code to even make sure said laws enforced with said aid for the army and police are prosecuted by the courts in the first place; the two are naturally very much related with one another.
 
The rest of the economic aid, 34% on the incredibly vague “good governance” (to basically have a nominally working government) and 8% of the economic aid to civil society, or to keep people active in government. Not a whole lot “economically” going to actual economic projects in well defined areas.
 
https://www.foreignassistance.gov/explore/country/Mexico

@Chef Unionista ZGU
 
I’m not saying we should pull foreign aid funding at all.
 
I’m just saying when the question of “Who’s going to fund the wall” comes up then unless Mexico literally buys all the concrete or steel (or whatever it’s being made with this week) and pays the salaries of all the workers and pays for all the private land it runs through then it’s not Mexico paying for the wall. It’s still the US using it’s own revenue.

@Mikey  
Alex Jones is a source for comedy and memes, not news

@neutralgrey  
Unless you’re one of those people who are tinfoil hat enough to believe what he says

@Mikey  
Don’t know what u talkin bout mang
 
Alex Jones speaks the truth about the lizard people and inter-dimensional child molesters

@neutralgrey  
And the chemicals that turn frogs gay, also the Sandy Hook parents were actors!

@Mikey  
And everyone knows elites marry horses, everyone knows Obama’s wife is transgender, and everyone knows the communist democrat deep state was behind the Vegas shooting with the help of ISIS

@AnCapSaiyan
 
Only a few are, and the articles are doomed to fail.
 
But if Muellers probe brings anything to light, I have no doubt that he’ll be impeached. At least in the House.
 
He may survive by the support of the Senate, unless Muellers probe is particularly damning.

@AnCapSaiyan  
Good let Trump squirm like the worm he is.

@Zincy  
All I can say is this. Once Trump is no longer President, he’ll be in deep trouble with no political allies

@neutralgrey  
Not in this country, maybe. Russia treats their assets pretty well, even the ones who get burned. It encourages recruitment.

@Background Human  
How inglorious would it be if Trump fled to Russia?

@vit
 
I think if a former official that was privy to the nation’s top secrets fled to a known enemy state, the SEALS would be close behind them.

@Zincy  
Maybe that’s the reason presidents get secret service for life,

@Cirrus Light  
“Protecting the border”  
Pretty pretty lies  
Let’s protect the US border from uhhh a child who is dying of starvation  
Awesome, great

@Cirrus Light  

 
Fairly sure foreign aid to Mexico doesn’t even cover 1/10 of the cost of the US border wall but go off