Posted on 10/13/2016 12:16:39 AM PDT by Helicondelta
The biggest program she oversaw there was foreign aid, which spent roughly $50 billion a year between 2009 and 2012. Mrs. Clinton stated in 2009 that “a lot of these aid programs don’t work,” lamented their “heartbreaking” failures, and promised fundamental reform at the Agency for International Development (AID).
But “see no evil” was often the Clinton State Department motto regarding U.S. aid. The Ethiopian government received more than $3 billion in U.S. aid while Mrs. Clinton was secretary.
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Corruption has long plagued foreign aid and Mrs. Clinton claimed to be spearheading a global crusade against graft. But when push came to shove, she went to the barricades for the kleptocracies’ right to collect U.S. tax dollars. When Republicans crafted legislation in 2011 to prohibit aid from going to graft-ridden governments, Mrs. Clinton warned that restricting handouts to nations that fail anti-corruption tests “has the potential to affect a staggering number of needy aid recipients.”
Despite Mrs. Clinton’s reform pledge, AID continued burying boondoggles with bureaucratic bluster. At a 2011 congressional hearing, Rep. Jason Chaffetz, Utah Republican and chairman of the House Subcommittee on National Security, scoffed at AID’s boasts on its Iraqi projects: “262,482 individuals reportedly benefited from medical supplies that were purchased to treat only 100 victims of a specific attack; 22 individuals attended a five-day mental health course, yet 1.5 million were reported as beneficiaries … and 280,000 were reported as benefiting from $14,246 spent to rehabilitate a morgue.”
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Trump wants to stop these wasteful handouts of taxpayers’ money.
But wait. He called a fat chick fat. And he leered at a skinny one.
Gasp.
See tag line.
At a 2011 congressional hearing, Rep. Jason Chaffetz, Utah Republican and chairman of the House Subcommittee on National Security, scoffed at AID’s boasts on its Iraqi projects: .....
In 2016 the most important thing to Chaffetz is Trump said the word “pussy” so he can’t vote for him.
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