[the OlLine Rebel]

"However, few countries have qualified for the program and little money has actually been disbursed."

So give me back my money. But wait....


"Instead, we find that both the U.S. and its partner countries in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), have contributed a great deal of aid to these oppressive regimes."

Because the US is a wimp driven by commie leftists chest-beating about how we must give (money) to poor countries because we have "too much". Almost invariably poor because their "systems" don't allow, either by rule and/or by nature, any but the all-powerful (e.g., dictators) to be rich. And the all-powerful steal the money given to "their country" for their own use.

[hedgetrimmer]

Because the US is a wimp driven by commie leftists chest-beating about how we must give (money) to poor countries because we have "too much".

This is exactly the argument the WTO uses to encourage our government to make trade agreements that give our competitive advantage away to "poor countries".