Cutting Foreign Aid

I am not at all surprised to see foreign aid on the US chopping block to deal with the budget crisis.  Foreign assistance is never popular and always over-estimated.  But the problem for is this: coming up with the correct analogy.  I tweeted the following:

Cutting foreign aid to address budget crisis is like an alcoholic cutting back on apertifs.

I am not sure that is the most apt analogy so I am taking suggestions.  Winner gets, well, credit when I post it.