Just some observations:Quote:
Originally posted by mugsy
I guess I don't understand why we are ALWAYS the bad guy when we give billions of dollars in aide to all these countries who hate us so much, but, I've asked before and still haven't heard an explanation that satisfied me, oh well, I probably never will. And no, I'm not waiting for the answer that fits my views.
- the aid is often of a short-term nature, ie famine relief, and not to help with long term strategies for improvement
- the financial aid is often used to repay foreign debts to other countries and doesn't get to the people most in need (and the people don't have the resources to unseat the government)
- the country giving the aid may have caused the problem in the first place (general note, not making any case against America). Australia and the island of Nauru are classic examples. We mined millions of tons of phosphate from Nauru, the government squandered the money on speculative investments rather than more stable programs, and now they're broke and being used as a dumping ground for Iraqi and Afghan refugees that our current government doesn't want on our soil
- some countries are sick and tired of being given hand-outs and treated like charity cases for decades because it suits other countries to keep them like that
As far as anything specific re America, I don't know enough about the USA's foreign aid policy and what people in other countries think, so I'm not even going there :)
