I guess my answer would be yes. And yes.
I think of it this way: I pay my mortgage, buy my groceries, put gas in my cars. And I buy myself a nice bike every once in a while, and take a vacation in Hawaii or Alaska. And I give money to my synagogue, my daughter's alma mater, and about a dozen different charities. I work 40-ish hours a week. I spend another couple hours volunteering, on average.
I take care of myself. I take care of those I'm close to. I take care of others (and other causes) that need my support. Giving? Maybe part of it is enlightened self-interest. But a bigger part of it is spending on what I value, in the most altruistic sense.
I think our nation should do that too, take care of the dispossessed and broken both inside our borders and outside.
Not that I agree with all of our government's decisions about where and how to spend our money! But hey, that's a representative democracy.
I found this website, with a deeper dive into foreign aid. Here's Mexico, and it's pretty interesting:
Mexico Foreign Aid | U.S. Government Grants and Loans I can't vouch for the accuracy, but it seems non-partisan.
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