[Rodney King]

Well, he certainly deserves credit for the reforms to the way the money is distributed, but I am totally against his having increased the amount of money. It's like the NEA art funding. The position seems to be that as long as government is in the right hands, than government power and intrusion are ok. The problem of course is that government will not always be in the right hands. Additionally, the "right hands" will very quickly become the "wrong hands" if one believes that government power is and of itself corrupting.

[FairOpinion]

The PROCESS Bush is putting into effect of holding countries accountable, instead of throwing money at them, pouring money down a rat hole will endure. But this policy couldn't be seen as a "cut" in foreign aid, or Bush would suffer politically.

Bush knows what he is doing.

[FairOpinion]

I suspect that the current foreign aid is also connected to the War on Terror -- giving foreign aid to countries, to help them fight the war on terror.