Eggs of Gold

The current attempt to cut the U.S. budget and try to revive our economy is making slow progress with few significant savings.  The effort seems to focus on domestic spending; duplicative funding, earmarks, outdated programs, entitlements and items that can otherwise be sacrificed in difficult economic times

However, there isn’t much publicity about cuts to our foreign aid budget(s).  Monetary assistance to governments and international organizations and programs can be found in many U.S. departmental funding requests.  The Departments of Commerce, Treasury, Agriculture, Justice, Transportation and, of course Defense and State all have line items for foreign assistance. Continue reading