[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 1]
[House]
[Page 622]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                    FOREIGN AID TO CHINA--ABSURDITY

  (Mr. POE of Texas asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. POE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, the government is going broke. 
Government spends too much. It borrows too much. It taxes too much. One 
idea is to raise the government credit card limit.
  It's like when my four kids went off to college. When they reached 
the maximum on their credit cards, the credit card company would simply 
raise their limit. Thus, they could spend more money by borrowing 
money. However, they all found out how difficult it was to get out of 
debt until they quit spending money.
  Instead of more U.S. debt, why not cut spending? Start with foreign 
aid. There are 194 countries in the world, and the United States gives 
to over 150 of them.
  Did you know we give money to dictator Chavez of Venezuela, the 
tyrant of South America? Did you know we give money to Russia?--and the 
zinger of all--did you know we give money to China? Yes, the country 
that owns most of our debt gets foreign aid.
  This absurdity must cease. No more foreign aid to the likes of 
Venezuela, Russia or China.
  And that's just the way it is.

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