Original sentence: The Lend-Lease agreements with 30 countries provided for repayment not in terms of money or returned goods, but in "joint action directed towards the creation of a liberalized international economic order in the postwar world
Edited sentence: In reality, the "Neutrality Acts" were just another example of US government politicians "knee jerking" a "solution" to a problem without thinking their actions through to the second step of the equation, and subsequently making the problem worse.It was made necessary by the incompetence that created the Neutrality Acts in the first place, combined with the fact that the Nazis had to be stopped for moral reasons.On the Balance Sheet for the United States, however, it was a disaster.One school of thought is that the Lend-Lease agreements with 30 countries provided for repayment not in terms of money or returned goods, but in "joint action directed towards the creation of a liberalized international economic order in the postwar world.Senator Taft turned out to be spot on, when he compared the "lending" of war materials to the lending of chewing gum.The "Lend Lease" program was not made necessary by future Economic necessity.The "Lend Lease" program, preceded by "The New Deal," both created by the abject incompetence of US politicians, combined to start the United States on a path that led to a national debt of over 20 Trillion Dollars by 2019.The Neutrality Acts made extending such credit illegal, which, in turn, caused President Roosevelt to get around them by means of giving our scarce resources away for free.The truth is, there was no repayment at all.This supposes that the nations of the world would have existed n a vacuum and not become players in the world economy otherwise.Without the Neutrality Acts, the US would have been free to extend credit to the nations she wished to aid