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Yoepus
Neo-condimist
Registered: Jan 2002
Location: Ketchup fields, Texas
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| quote: | Originally posted by Renegade
It's worth mentioning that foreign aid (from both countries) has been in decline for a long while:
this source newsweek would disagree with that statement;
"President Bush has, after all, worked with the United Nations on Iraq, increased foreign aid by 50 percent, announced a $15 billion AIDS program ..."
The Foriegn Aids estimates are always inacurate as they do not necessairly reflect real aid, which is often much higher. Aid to do to natrual disaster, those attributed to UN organizations are usually left out, while military aid which usually falls under the Department of Defense are taken out of Economic Foriegn Aid to countries when it should not be (such as Israel/Egypt). In actuallity the US contributes more aid then it's given credit for, though in the end I will agree its not much - not even 1% of GDP. (The military budget is only 4% though)
[quote]keep in mind the amount of money that private businesses (through the World Bank and the World Trade Organisations) are taking back from these nations (take a look at what happened in Asia when this money was pulled out) through the forced adoption of neo-liberal, capitalistic policies (through privitasation, the opening up of the stock markets/national currency etc). While other Western nations benefit from this agenda as well (Australia included) given purely the vast amount of investors it has, I'm sure that the $15 billion is cancelled out by the amount of private money coming back in from these same nations. |
Keep in mind that nations aren't as dumb as .... that.  If the World Bank, WTF, IMF did worse to nations then they are, nations would simply not use them and go on and try to suffer the economic crisis on there own. Been in fact this has not happened, therefore these countries are gaining many advantages through these institutions they would not have previously, regardless of the costs of heavy reforms and debt relief.
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The US has the power to do a lot of good, but what good it has done has been shadowed by it's draconian foreign policies. That's why you find that so many people around the world are angry at the US right at this moment. |
Ya I know, horrible isn't it? The people of this world are so blinded by their hate for America, they are not even willing to look to their humanitarian pity when it champions a noble cause such as Iraq. Its just hard for me to view people who see Saddam Hussien and what he has done to his people and wish the people to remain under his tyranny.
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