Posted on 01/31/2006 8:50:18 AM PST by libertarianPA
After getting off to a painfully slow start, President Bush's signature foreign aid program is poised to begin ramping up the amount of money it spends on development projects in poor countries, according to its new chief executive -- who vows that the impact will be "transformative."
John J. Danilovich, the former ambassador whom Bush installed as head of the Millennium Challenge Corp. in November, said the agency is adopting a new strategy to fulfill its mission of providing aid to well-governed nations. It will winnow recipients to a short list but intends to give them significantly bigger grants than those bestowed in previous programs.
Implementing such an approach would mark an important shift for the federally funded corporation, which Bush proposed creating in 2002 as an innovative way to dole out development assistance
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Wow. Now we'll be giving even more money to people who will then hate us because we have not given them enough money. Why we're foreign policy GENUISES! GENUISES I tell you!
You know, one definition of insanity is repeating the same behavior over and over, each time expecting a different outcome.
And just think: All they had to do to come up with that $2B was hold a gun to the heads of the most productive workforce in the world. Quite an accomplishment.
There's nothing like legalized robbery, is there.
The 16th Amendment to the Constitution of the UNited Staes of America needs to be repealed NOW. Let them get their "walking around" money from some other source.
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