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Beers with our Founding Fathers

of funding and aid, which more accurately translates to extortion.

As is demonstrated in this work, our government uses domestic
funding and aid to force states to comply with desired policy that

would otherwise be unconstitutional and unenforceable. The same
holds true of international policy. However, when a foreign country

does not comply with the will of the United States or international
policy, it is termed ‘economic sanctions’. For every cause there is an

effect, and with sanctions it also impacts the domestic economy.
The simple solution is to simply veto and repeal all funds to the

United Nations and foreign countries. This would substantially fund
domestic aid, reduce domestic spending, and the deficit – not to

mention that it is necessary to borrow these monies from one of the
four other international superpowers. Also, like the aforementioned

student loan program, in which private student loans were
guaranteed by our government – the international guaranteed loans

to foreign countries are also by private domestic banks. These are
significant investments with a substantial return on investment to

the private lender. In the event that a country defaults on the loans,
our government will guarantee the loan program. Historically, the

use of sanctions as leverage for compliance in foreign relations dates
back thousands of years. It has helped to reduce aggression, while

also being an underlying cause of war. As an example, foreign aid to
countries to force compliance with nuclear proliferation has had its

positive and negative outcomes. Trade embargos, a form of foreign

policy extortion, to halt the military expansion of the foreign
empires resulted in the onset of World War II. Cause and effect, as
with domestic policy – foreign policy has its consequences.

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