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FOREIGN AID help American companies develop foreign markets, build stable business environments in developing countries, and thereby help create jobs at home. Foreign aid programs also help bring education, health care and transportation to hundreds of millions of potential new customers. Today, one in five American jobs is linked to U.S. exports. Foreign markets offer the best opportunities to expand the American economy. Foreign aid helps make the United States competitive with the fast growing economies of the world. Other countries—most notably China—are aggressively promoting exports for their businesses and securing major business deals with foreign governments trying to modernize their countries’ infrastructure. The money America uses from the foreign aid bill to fund its embassies and support American business expansion abroad helps ensure that the United States will not cede markets and opportunities to international competitors. FOREIGN AID: AN AFFORDABLE INVESTMENT While polls show that Americans think the United States spends 25 percent of the federal budget on foreign aid, the actual number is only 1 percent. Foreign Aid 1% Defense 19% Other 8% Homeland Security 2% Interest Payments 9% Social Security 21% Income Security 13% Medicare 14% Health 10% Education 3% (Percentage of Federal Budget) 113
FOREIGN AID Foreign aid plays a critical role in enabling the United States to flex its economic muscle abroad to achieve its foreign policy goals, as well as establish new economic opportunities for American businesses and workers. Investing Modestly to Save Money in the Long Run At a time of declining budgetary resources, foreign aid is a cost-effective and relatively small investment that saves U.S. taxpayers money. Using foreign aid dollars wisely today helps prevent the more costly wars, crises and disasters that might otherwise occur. Prevention—whether of terror attacks, weapons proliferation, pandemic disease, economic meltdown, societal collapse or the spread of radical ideology—is always cheaper and easier. “The United States has the best military in the world and we must protect it, but many of our security challenges require other instruments,” Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey wrote to top congressional appropriators in 2011. “The return on investment from robust diplomatic efforts and targeted development programs is the protection of both the lives of our people not sent into harm’s way and our nation’s fiscal health as we prevent problems from leading to armed conflict.” Helping Abroad to Protect Americans at Home The United States can no longer wish away the world’s growing problems and hope that they do not reach our shores. As former President George W. Bush wrote, “Many of the world’s problems—terrorist networks, criminal gangs, drug syndicates, pandemic diseases—are no more than a half-day plane ride from the United States.” The terrorist attacks of 9/11 should have forever put to rest the notion that we can disengage from the world without consequences for our homeland and for our people. To keep America safe, President Bush went on to write, “America has a direct stake in the progress and hope of other nations.” That means tuning our attention and resources to what he described as the world’s “hopeless, poorly controlled areas.” Foreign aid helps bring political, economic and social stability to these very “hopeless, poorly controlled areas” around the world. Foreign aid helps prevent these areas from becoming breeding grounds for terror, disease, poverty and lawlessness that can spill over into other countries and directly threaten American interests. 114
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WHY ISRAEL MATTERS Why Israel Matte
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WHY ISRAEL MATTERS An Ancient Capit
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WHY ISRAEL MATTERS What Congress Di
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WHY ISRAEL MATTERS Israel Shares Am
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WHY ISRAEL MATTERS Israel Respects
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RELATIONSHIP Israel Is America’s
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RELATIONSHIP America’s Oil Depend
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RELATIONSHIP The U.S.-Israel Econom
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Page 69 and 70: ISRAEL AT RISK Why Israel Is at Ris
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Page 73 and 74: TERRORIST BUILDUP IN GAZA Ashkelon
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