America’s Misplaced Allegiance

An unfiltered critique of America’s misplaced loyalty, foreign aid waste, and political dysfunction. How bleeding-heart liberal policies flipped the “United States” upside-down while ignoring our children and future.

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I. Burke

9/27/20254 min read

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The Numbers Don’t Add Up

Here’s a slap in the face: 87% of U.S. schools offer some kind of after-school curriculum. Great, right? Wrong. Because actual access to them is a “problem.” How the hell does that make sense? It’s the government’s job to connect the damn dots. If the programs exist, why aren’t there yellow buses carting kids from their classrooms to those facilities? Why aren’t resources being used to bridge that gap instead of being flushed overseas into foreign wars, corrupt aid packages, and nation-building efforts in countries that will spit on our flag tomorrow?

The USAID* supported various projects, including a "transgender comic book" in Peru, a "transgender opera" in Colombia and this all under Under the Biden administration alone, $2 million to support sex changes and "LGBT activism" in Guatemala, Serbia, India, and who can forget Ukraine?!

Don’t tell me “there’s no funding.” There’s funding for everything except our kids. Our lawmakers hand out billions like candy to every conflict, dictatorship, and fake ally across the globe while the next generation of Americans is left stranded without proper after-school engagement, safety, or structure. That’s not loyalty to our people. That’s betrayal dressed up as diplomacy.

America’s Choice: Foreign Aid or American Kids

So here’s the bottom line: lawmakers need to cease and desist all foreign aid to governments that do nothing but drain our pockets. Stop dumping billions into “strategic allies” who laugh at us behind closed doors. Stop sending money we don’t have while our national debt drowns us. Instead, invest it in the actual people who will determine America’s future — our children.

Build infrastructure for after-school programs. Fund public transportation solutions. Give parents the resources to ensure their kids are safe, stimulated, and developing outside of the classroom. And for once in modern history, put America first in the most literal sense: in the hands and lives of our youth.

Because the future isn’t in Kabul. It isn’t in Kiev. It isn’t in Gaza, Taiwan, or the Middle East. The future is sitting in America’s classrooms right now — waiting for the yellow bus that never shows up.

*The U.S. Agency for International Development.
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You can see for yourself when (and where) the U.S. government provides foreign aid on ForeignAssistance.gov, which is the official U.S. government website for foreign assistance info. This site provides budget and financial data from over 20 U.S. agencies, making data and context from the entire foreign assistance site pretty much spot on.

Raise Your Kids, Don’t Abandon Them

Here’s the raw truth: children need more than school. They need intellectual stimulus, culture, exercise, and structure in their waking hours. Because this is the mold. These are the years where they either learn how to be self-sufficient, serious, responsible individuals — or they grow up aimless, idle, and easy prey to whatever “fun” comes their way. Life ain’t fun. Life is grind, hustle, and responsibility. If we’re not teaching kids that early, then we’re setting them up for failure.

An effective blueprint isn’t complicated. After-school pickup, tutoring and homework checks, then a chore — done properly. After that? Dinner, brushing teeth, and two hours to unwind. Simple. Direct. Balanced. My own childhood, like many others, was a case study in neglect-by-necessity: a mom working two jobs, a tired grandmother, and me left to figure it out. Don’t let that cycle repeat.

Stop Funding Foreign Garbage and Invest in Our Kids

The United States of America became officially known as such on September 9, 1776. That name was chosen to represent something powerful — a collection of independent, self-governing states, bound together under one banner, united yet distinct. Fast-forward nearly 250 years later, and ask yourself: how many states today are truly independent? Or are they just pawns under the boot of federal “mandatory” this and “federally funded” that? We’ve gone from a nation of rugged statesmen and patriots to a bloated playground for politicians with bleeding-heart liberal facades, pretending to be humanitarian saints while running this country ass-backwards into the ground.

This is not the “United States” envisioned by our founders. This is the clusterfuck era of finger-pointing bureaucrats, where state governments blame the feds, and the feds blame the states. Meanwhile, who gets screwed in the middle? Regular, working-class Americans — and our kids.

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