Furthermore, he's said the US should "stop sending foreign aid to countries that hate us".
Instead of sending foreign aid and hoping it trickles down, we could make it easier for Americans to buy Pakistani shirts, towels and denims, thus lifting an industry that is an incubator of the middle class and employs many women.
The fact that open-market economies, property rights, and health-care systems do exist in Africa didn't deter Paul from arguing, on a separate occasion, that it was useless to send foreign aid to Africa.
In the pub there are several references to Poles sending child benefit back to Poland and the UK sending foreign aid to India, which has its own space programme.
Recently GOP frontrunner Donald Trump suggested the United States should stop sending foreign aid to countries that hate us.
Why do we continue to send foreign aid to other countries when we need all the help we can get for ourselves?" Truthfully, this is a tough question.
The World Bank estimates that over $450 billion in remittance payments into developing countries will occur in 2015, which is three times larger than the amount of total direct foreign aid that will be sent to those countries.
The Somoza dynasty had weathered rebellions before, but made a crucial mistake when it squandered foreign aid sent to help the shattered economy rebuild after a 1972 earthquake.
The principal Hazara provinces, while relatively safe, remain impoverished and, their leaders complain, are bypassed by the foreign aid sent to Pashtun areas as a carrot to lure people from the insurgency.
"The government wastes my money, gives it to the lazy and indolent, sends it overseas as foreign aid".
