>Why is the US giving billions of dollars to a foreign nation while her own citizens are in dire need of those funds? I guess the better questions is, how do the people allow this to happen?

Because the war mongers are a huge industry and there is no department of peace.

One would think after thousands of years of war to "bring about peace" one would try something new. I can't be the only one on the globe to know what the definition of insanity is.