American’s Are The World Piggy-Bank by Robert Socha

It is our fault.

The Western world is in an uproar because the United States has turned off the spigot of free cash through USAID and other unconstitutional programs. From the UK to the UN to Ukraine, world leaders are crying foul and attempting to virtue signal the United States into continuing its impossible to sustain largess. The only reason this hegemony has been able to persist thusly is because we can print ourselves out of trouble; runaway inflation notwithstanding. Most other nations do not have such a luxury.

Instead of crying foul and demanding that these United States continue to take the middle class’s hard-earned money and give it to another country for some of the most ludicrous reasons, sometimes even financing our enemies, it would be most beneficial if those entities whose eliminated spigot is forcing austerity would adopt former Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta’s position when he said, “I saw some people the other day crying that Trump has removed funding, he is not giving us any more money. Why are you crying? It is not your government; it is not your country. You don’t pay taxes in America. This is a wake-up call for you to say, ‘okay what are we going to do to help ourselves?’ Nobody is going to continue holding out a hand there to give you. It is time for us to use our resources for the right things.”

Instead of the UK’s Prime Minister nervously demanding the United States continue to fund the war in Ukraine after Zelensky’s embarrassing betrayal of a mineral deal agreed upon with Secretary of State Rubio, it would behoove world leaders to take a more humble approach and begin to find ways to fund programs they deem necessary enough to fleece the American taxpayer. Additionally, Europe should step up to the plate in self-defense. Remember, President Trump has not unilaterally abandoned our European allies; he insists they pony up and become more active partners in the endeavor.

It is long overdue for these changes in US foreign policy to ensue. Necessity dictates that the trillions ($X,XXX,XXX,XXX,XXX displayed for the visual) spent outside our borders must reign in their open-handedness. As the President declared in his opening statement at last night’s joint session of Congress speech, “Six weeks ago, I stood beneath the dome of this Capitol and proclaimed the dawn of the golden age of America. From that moment on, it has been nothing but swift and unrelenting action to usher in the greatest and most successful era in the history of our country. We have accomplished more in 43 days than most administrations accomplished in four years or eight years, and we are just getting started. I return to this chamber tonight to report that America’s momentum is back, our spirit is back, our pride is back, our confidence is back, and the American dream is surging bigger and better than ever before.”

Out of our benevolence and generosity, we have intentionally doled out countless dollars whose ultimate benefit is problematic and difficult, if not impossible, to define. Unfettered access to US taxpayer funds is a sedentary drug that has been injected into the arms of our allies and enemies alike, creating an unhealthy dependency whose painful withdrawal symptoms are tearing the fabric of international aid asunder. Hopefully, the cuts will not maintain their 90-day hiatus but will become permanent and wean the global community from these United States’ breasts, causing them to find and create alternative funding sources. It is with hope that Congress maintains its integrity to follow the President’s lead and end this gravy train. The world will realize their unhealthy dependency on US foreign aid is not what builds national unity and character. These United States forged its identity from the throes of Revolution and Civil War, creating the wealthiest and most magnanimous Republic the world has ever witnessed. What will instill pride in a nation’s distinctiveness is forging their national identity from the ashes of this crisis the United States inadvertently created through financial hegemony, creating an opportunity for their people to say, “Look at what we have built, and it is beautiful.”