"Rafael Caetano" <rcaetano7@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> "Marc" <box526TR@spamtrap.net> wrote in message news:
> >   No. foreign aid is an instrument of national defense and it makes up
less
> > than 1% of the national budget. Would be nice to find a way out of
perpetual
> > billion dollar funding of Israel and Egypt though. In a libertarian
world,
> > they would just be left to their own devices, which means they would
kill
> > each other, and god would sort it out. That's kind of the whole problem
with
> > a hard-core libertarian philosophy - people left to their own devices
will
> > let their neighbors starve.
>
> Yeah, if there was no government intervention and massive foreign aid,
> millions would be starving in Africa. Or North Korea.

certainly more would be starving. Several governments have provided food and
energy assistance to N. Korea.