It is not a cycle of nature.  It is because the core of the earth is hotter than the surface of the sun. It more like a pressure cooker relief valve. The interval of eruption is random. Like pole reversals.  Some are tied to the fact that the crust of the earth rotates 1 degree less than the core every 1000 years.  Tha...more

Actually the particle pollution of volcanoes cools the earth, as the reflect sunlight back into space.

No and it not as far away as Russia.

The poll have away reversed. The internal is random. Some as long as 1,000,000 year and the shortest one yet recorded is 440 year.  The pole shift have never harmed any thing.  But of course they will effect compass sales.

We give freely 97 Billion dollars to foreign countries.  I would not cut one penny of our 13.5 billion non military foreign aid.  It is an effective job program. We provide 7 billion dollar from the child survival and health program, which also contains the aids funding.    Much of this money 2 billion is to fight the ...more

Israel aid is given to counter Russia and Iran.   3 billion dollar is the price,  cut that and you will rightly get voted out.

America was make a world power by the Marshall plan after WWII.  Aid money can only be spent in America.  Harry Truman made more jobs that way.

17 billion of the 30 is military aid. 7 billion to Afghanistan, 3 billion Israel. 1 billion Mexico, .5 billion Poland

Jamie T you have 23,500,000,000 to much on the board.  But this is included in the 30 billion as 17 billion of it is military aid.