Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Blog Assignment 2- Foreign Aid: Yes or No


Today in class we discussed the topic question should the U.S. continue to give foreign aid during the recession? Remember the key terms I underlined in that question. Foreign aid is any money, medicine, or supplies given to other countries. This could be for a disaster, war, disease or development. The other term was recession. A recession is a time where the economy is not doing as well as it should. The unemployement rate is higher and the market is bad. The United States is currently in a state or recession. So after studying these terms and the topic write a 3-5 sentence statement telling me if you believe the U.S. should continue to give foreign aid during the recession and tell me why you believe that.(put your name at the end of the comment) Don't forget the stats and figures I gave you today. I have attached some of the articles you already have and a few new ones as well for your info.


Countries with largest amount of foreign aid given (in billions of dollars)






Countries that receive aid from the U.S.

10 comments:

  1. Yes, I think we should continue to give foreign aid. But when our economy is down
    we should give less. But if our economy is strong we should give as much as we
    can afford. And since we are Christians
    we really should try to give to the people
    who are in need.
    Siena Corbin

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  2. No, I think we should not because our economy might not be so strong and we give alot so we might not have as much 2 use.

    Hannah Price

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  3. I really don't know I mean we should give them money but I think we give them to much. We should give them a good amount like $8,000,000,000 but the price we give them now is about 14,000,000,000

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  4. No, because the economy is down. I also think this because we are very high in unemployement.Also if we give to much we may go in dept.

    Courtney Bryant

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  5. yes,because we can help other people. and we should because we have a lot of money.


    bobby zakhireh

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  6. Yes, we should help just in disasters,medicine and development but not for war because even though they might be poor they shouldnt use our money for weapons and other things for their war.
    Besides the Bible says we should help people in need. And when we give we get more in return as the Bible says.
    Tre Blakes

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  7. NO BECAUSE WE SHOULD SAVE OUR MONEY AND THEY SHOULD USE THEIR MONEY.AND WE ARE IN WAR WITH THEM WE WANT TO WIN THE WAR WE DONT WANT THEM TO HEAL AND THERE IS LIKE A FEW THOUSAND PEOPLE BACK IN THE WAR.SO NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!

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  8. I think no because we are in dept with china.Also the economey is down.People are poor here they dont give us help.
    Audrey Morgan

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  9. Yes, I think foreign aid should continue. The people in other countries need to know about Jesus, how to make clothing, how to drive a car and the need to go to school to get an education. If children don't have mom's or dad's we could give them gift cards so they can go to different places to get the things they needl Most of the money for foreign aid comes from people and companies.

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  10. yes i think we should continue to give foreign aid because think about the nations who cant afford many hospitals and very inportant items.
    also we may not give much to other countries but who are we to call ourselves a christian nation and not give.



    Eva Plezia

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