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with aid money and have built up large government staffs that do nothing. Pork barrel projects
have included: the building of roads going nowhere, irrigation ditches that don’t irrigate anything
and storage facilities that fall down or never get finished. There are also governments that resell
food provided for their hungry population in order to buy arms for their military. They do this
while their people starve. Next are poor farmers whose crops become almost worthless as free
food is flooded into their country and they are forced out of business. Others quit farming
because they are provided free food. As a result the agricultural industries in many nations have
failed. Finally, while it is a stated goal of US aid to reduce sickness and disease in third world
nations, contrary to popular belief we have done just the opposite
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which was covered in depth
in chapter 3.
According to George B. N. Ayittey, who had an article appear in Perpetuating Poverty:
The World Bank, the IMF and the Developing World, “a bipartisan congressional task force of
the House Foreign Affairs committee” reached the following conclusion regarding US aid in
1989: “Current aid programs are so encrusted in red tape that they no longer either advance US
interests abroad or promote economic development.” In the 20 years preceding 1992, the US had
provided approximately $400 billion in aid to developing nations. No country during this time
had progressed from less developed to developed status. Even worse is that most nations
receiving aid in the 1950’s and 1960’s are now dependent on foreign aid.
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Just as welfare in the United States has done nothing but create people who become
dependent on public support for their livelihood, foreign aid has done exactly the same in other
countries and much worse. Congress knows that foreign aid is a major failure. In June of 1993
the republicans in the US House of Representatives proposed and voted on an amendment that
would have eliminated all funding of the International Bank for Reconstruction and
Development, which is one of the two principal branches of the World Bank. The amendment
was defeated by only two votes.
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Congressman Ron Paul wrote on this subject of foreign aid
and welfare in his weekly column; he states:
Foreign aid welfare is still foreign aid welfare, no matter what jingoistic
name is applied. There is nothing new or noble about it. The Millennium
Challenge Act is just another shabby federal program that takes your money and
gives it to somebody else…. Foreign aid doesn’t help poor people; it helps foreign
elites and US corporations who obtain the contracts doled out by those foreign
elites. Everyone in Washington knows this, but the same lofty rhetoric is used
over and over to sell foreign aid programs to a gullible public.
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Congressman Paul further states:
In many cases, foreign aid money simply distorts foreign economies and
props up bad governments. In countries that pursue harmful economic policies, an
infusion of US cash only exacerbates and prolongs problems. No amount of
money can help nations that reject property rights, free markets, and the rule of
law…. Foreign aid encourages socialism and statism. Because it is entirely geared
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