Posted on 03/26/2011 7:05:57 AM PDT by JimWayne
Defund all collectives including foreign governments and U.S. corporations. Give them the “freedom” to live or die on their own.
I saw USAID in action in Haiti. Actually having a meeting under a big tent teaching illiterate natives the benefits of a Green Economy.
This is an example of fraud. As you can see, the money did not go to people in Haiti but to cronies of the beltway politicians for indulging in a perfectly useless activity. Teaching the alphabet to poor people in slums is a totally useless activity that does nothing to improve their lot. You need to follow the money trail. The money paid to the NGO must have been an inflated amount and they gave themselves a vacation to Haiti with literacy campaign as the excuse.
If you seriously believe that foreign governments are collectives that get our money, you are the kind of person that Kerry and Lugar love. They easily fool you by claiming that they are funding poor people in other countries when in reality, all the aid they legislate goes to their cronies in Washington DC.
Defund all aid to NGO’s under the guise of giving to foreign governments. Defund all collectives meaning all collectives.
Thanks for the clarification. We need to defund them ASAP. The left runs most NGOs and lives off our money while attacking our values.
What’s an “NGO”?
“Non Governmental Organization”
It can be anything from giants like the Red Cross to private aid organizations like Samaritan’s Purse and World Vision down to a missionary teaching local villagers to hand drill their own water wells.
Some US NGO personnel make 6 figure incomes, but a lot of folks get by on less than $50,000, INCLUDING operating expenses.
The term NGO covers a very wide range.
Foreign Aid is stealing from poor and middle class people in the USA and giving to dictators in the 3rd world.
Like US money to fight aids in Africa, the money goes to US pharmaceutical companies. I remember twenty years ago looking at the reimbursement rates for environmetal engineers. Their rates were the highest of any engineering disciplines. Why? Federal funding.
NGOs are very destructive and NONE, and I mean NONE benefit the struggling people of any country in which they operate.
NGOs are constructed to destroy any capitalist growth needed to truly build a society. They are anti-business and anti-freedom.
NGOs are a leftists dream -- it is true, pernicious collectivism on display. I agree the U.S. should NOT give one penny to any of these destructive entities.
WRONG! Foreign aid is stealing money from poor and middle class in the USA and giving it to NGOs in Washington DC that are run by cronies and to crony capitalist corporations. Dictators get less than 5% and those are as bribes to facilitate the money flow to the NGOs and corporations.
You are absolutely right that they are a leftist's dream. The money given to them is by design just as unions get money by design. The government funds NGOs in USA under the cover of foreign aid.
Government can Not do charity and stay within the Constitution.
Stop all government aid and let individuals and churches do charity.
They do it better, cheaper, and far more honestly.
I recall stories like this from fifty years ago. Nothing much changes.
I’ve been complaining for years about the amount of foreign aid we give each year. Maybe now that the belt tightening comes it’ll finally get toned down.
Please read it fully. Foreign aid not really foreign aid but domestic aid to enrich the beltway thieves.
(just now getting back to yesterday's pings) THANK YOU very much for bringing this topic to the forum, Jim Wayne...and THANK YOU very much for the link, VaRepublican.
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