He argued it would be better to spend a "fraction of what we are currently mis-spending" on development aid on educating future leaders in "our best schools and universities".

BBC: Development aid debate

To expend political capital now on projected deficits, rather than on immediate mis-spending of sickening proportions, will be taken by most of us Tea Party rank-and-file as a political flinch.

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