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Portugal went belly up today. They expect to ask the International Monetary Fund for at least 183 Billion to get them through their crisis. The USA is a member of the IMF and gives no small amount of money to help do the following; " 187 countries working to foster global monetary cooperation, secure financial stability, facilitate international trade, promote high employment and sustainable economic growth, and reduce poverty around the world ". Most Americans have no idea their government has pledged to fund, at least in part, global financial stability. That is one of the big problems I have with our federal government, they don't ask their constituents about decisions like this (fund the IMF) they just do it.

Free trade is just the tip of the iceberg. We are funding and moving inexorably toward the unilateral view supporting a global government. That's government, not community. We as a nation seem more than willing to be herded in that direction, without so much as a whimper.

Libertarians have noticed for quite sometime and are against giving any money to any group outside of the US, but we are considered extreme.