The amount of money sent or brought back by migrants was more than three times larger than foreign aid in 2021. We don’t often hear about these flows, but their scale is far bigger.
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42 sats \ 3 replies \ @denlillaapan 18 Jan
Yeah love it.
Throw away all that foreign aid and let peeps fix their ancestral homelands on their own
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8 sats \ 1 reply \ @028559d218 18 Jan
foreign aid still a very small part of the overall federal budget. medicare and social security the largest fractions of the pie but they don't get touched
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @denlillaapan 22h
yup yup yup, that's right. Complaints about foreign aid are usually a distraction; does. not. matter.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 18 Jan
And, do it while performing useful services. It's such a win-win.
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @Shugard 18 Jan
Stop the aid bullshit, just open borders and give everyone the same freedom to do what he can do best!
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5 sats \ 0 replies \ @LowK3y19 18 Jan
Got to send the bitcoin back and get with the times
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @ama 18 Jan
That's a tiny proportion of the flow of value from poor countries to rich countries in terms of all the natural resources extracted from them at extremely low prices as well as the exportation of rich countries' inflation to poor countries.
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