The United States ought to focus on domestic aid, rather than foreign aid.

Defining Aid"Government spending on domestic development is a responsibility. The Pro is trying to argue that your pay check counts as aid, since your employer is giving you money."This is classic straw man fallacy. Con attempts to forcefully create a position that is much more tenable than his own. Your employer gives you money, because you work for that money. The government provides services, because the people agree to pay taxes to recieve these provided services, although many claim that the government should not provide these services (see Ron Paul). Con attempts to argue that you are entitled to roads and education from the government, but this is not true. We are not guaranteed these services by the constitution. The government provides these services in order to aid the American people. The purpose of the American government is to protect your life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness, therefore, public services (such as road construction, education, or other pieces of public infrastructure) are not essential, and therefore qualify as based on "altruistic motive" as my opponent says. Roads, education, and public power are all provided "altruistically."My opponents definiton of aid, though, does dip into semantics, and should be disregarded by the judges, as Altruism, and the role of government, and what exactly is guarenteed in the social contract between citizens and government, are all subjects of lengthy debate, and therefore we cannot use the Cons definition of aid. Therefore, I will provide practical definitons for both aid, and focus.Aid-to provide with what is useful or necessary in achieving an end (1)Focus-a main purpose or interest (1)My opponent brings his own definitions of focus without sourcing, an attempt at a red herring to distract judges. My definitons have been provided by Merriam-Webster, and therefore are authoritative in this debate, given mopponents unsourced definitions. My points regarding the development of Infrastructure, education, and medicine, therefore stand, as they fit the definition of aid, as all three are services provided to achieve an end.Rebuttals(I)"In short, despite the significantly large budget of trillions of dollars, less than $30 Billion goes towards any kind of aid."The truth of this point is difficult to ascertain, as my opponent fails to properly cite his sources in his argument. Even if this point were true, it is irrelevant. Spending less on domestic aid doesn't mean that the poorly spent money in foreign aid will suddenly be spent more efficiently. In fact, this could be argued against foreign aid, as my opopnent has shown that foreign aid is typically spent ineffeciently, and therefore is wasteful.(II)"Currently, most of the word lives in a relatively underdeveloped state, with hundreds of millions living in abject poverty, lacking access to education, medical attention, food and even proper drinking water. People living in well developed areas do not suffer from these problems nearly as much. The more developed areas in the world there are, then on average, all of humanity will become more advanced as a species. Being advanced as a species not only secures us short term comforts in our individual lives on the planet, but also opens possibilities of greater achievement beyond the planet. Becoming as advanced as possible is one of the haphazardly pursued goals of humanity, as evidenced by our developmental pattern. Thus spending money to make as many areas as possible developed helps fulfill this goal and achieves the greatest amount of net benefit."This is reasoning is, at best, shakey. The US government should ALWAYS do what is best for its citizens first. Just because other parts of the world can be developed more efficiently than the USA, does not mean that we should prioritize their development. The citizens of the United States gain very little net benefits from developing poor countries other than perhaps a warm fuzzy feeling on the inside. Meanwhile, American children are recieving shoddy education, and Americans across the nation are dying of illness, when they could easily be living, and well educated. Furthermore, if you cross refence this point with my own argument, you will see that domestic aid is superior here as well. This is because a more developed United States can more efficiently provide foreign aid. (See point II of Round 1)(III)"This is a logical assumption based on the fact that it is much easier to play catch-up than to innovate by ones’ self."This is a false comparison. As you can see in my previous argument (See point I of Round 1) the US itsself has to play catch up! We would only need to innovate if we were #1 lowest infant mortality, #1 in education, and we had an A+ from the ASCE. We need to catch up. We need to develop domestic infrastructure.(IV)"Funding: Budget cuts to the military"This isn't a policy debate my friend, you don't create a plan.(V)"Con’s plan: over $200 Billion in aid globally and domestically."If con means to spend on foreign and domestic equally, then he violates all definitions of focus that have been given, and therefore invalidates his argument.SummaryCon's argument lacks substantial reason to give foreign aid, other than "efficiency." The bulk of the Cons argument is either A) semantics or B) his "plan" the majority of which is irrelevant to this debate. I have, however, shown what exactly needs improvement domestically, and I have shown how exactly it will garner benefits. Furthermore, my opponents use of sourcing is unorganized and difficult to understand, as the Con does not reference directly to his sources when making statements. He rather makes sweeping statements, and provides a cluster of sources haphazardly at the end. The con provides very minor net benefits, as the Pro provides very large net benefits for the citizens of the US, and even the world.1. The US is in need of development in many key areas2. A developed US will garner massive benefits from these areas.3. A developed US can provide foreign aid more effectively, while still maintaining high domestic aid spendingVOTE PRO!Sources1. http://www.merriam-webster.com...;