Just read in the Washington Post:
"Hundreds of millions of dollars leave [Afghanistan] every month in cash...much of that money was meant to be spent in Afghanistan...."
In other words, YOUR tax dollars designed to help Afghanistan (aid money), travels from your pocket to Afghanistan to help them and instead someone steals it to the tune of "hundreds of millions of dollars each month" and takes it to some other country.
"Documents reviewed by the Washington Post this year showed that passengers [from Afghanistan] took more than $180 million to Dubai during a 2 month period in 2009. At that rate, the amount of money being carried out over the course of the year would have exceeded the country's annual tax revenue of $875 million..."
Meanwhile, back at the ranch, we have to borrow from China to stay afloat....and this has more than a financial consequence. It is hard to find diplomatic muscle to get China to back us on such projects as stopping Iran from developing a nuclear weapon when we are so much in debt to them. We look weak when we owe so much money.
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