Foreign Aid is Not an Obligation: It’s a Brown Paper Bag Operation

Besides the stunning political upsets of 2016, the U.S and the U.K have something else in common: a foreign aid budget that is unpopular, unhelpful and doesn’t actually do much good for anyone. With billions of dollars being used as “soft diplomacy” (bribes) to both friendly and unfriendly nations, the aid budget has taken the place of proper foreign policy and real diplomatic measures.

Should you choose to type “US foreign aid budget” into Google, your top two responses will be articles by the Washington Post and NPR, delightfully telling you how racist and ignorant people are when questioned on the extent of foreign aid. If you can drag yourself out of the vomit position and scroll further down the search results, you’ll find that the figure is a little over $50 billion.

WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENS TO HUMANITARIAN FOREIGN AID
Former Guatemala President used US banks to launder foreign aid millions
thieving Guatemalan was elected to "redistribute" the dirt-poor nation's wealth.

Alfonso Portillo---ex-president of Central America's Guatemala--- faced charges in New York that he used US banks to launder millions looted from his impoverished nation. Alfonso Portillo took office in 2000 pledging to (ahem) redistribute Guatemala’s wealth.

Portillo, 61, allegedly ran scams to drain the impoverished country's coffers. The feds say Portillo embezzled about $2.5M provided by the Taiwanese embassy....$1.5 million was earmarked for “Libraries for Peace”....books for school kids.

Portillo colluded w/ corrupt C/A insiders---he personally endorsed three $500,000 checks issued against an account at the Intl Bank of China in Manhattan, then deposited the cash in the Miami bank account of a Guatemalan bank controlled by a close associate and political supporter.

The embezzled foreign aid money was funneled to bank accounts in Paris in the names of Portillo’s ex-wife and daughter.

<><> Portillo swindled nearly $4M defense funds ...

<><> plundered the national bank run by his alleged co-conspirator...

<><> through overdrafts financed by public reserves the pilfered foreign aid money paid for expensive watches and cars, for Portillo and his associates. (NY POST excerpt 5/28/13)

SOURCE http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/
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THE SHAKEDOWN As you read this, remember that Guatemalan President Otto Perez is under investigation for misuse of foreign aid.

Otto Perez

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Guatemalan President Otto Perez warns the USA: "you will be inundated w/ more contagious illegals if billions of US tax dollars are not handed over."

GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - The United States should provide billions of dollars to help Central American nations curb the flow of illegal migrants, Guatemalan President Otto Perez said, and his government warns the problem will get worse if Washington fails to help.

Fleeing violence, trying to reach relatives already in the United States or seeking jobs, record numbers of child migrants from Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador have been stopped at the southern U.S. border this year, causing widespread alarm. Last month, the three countries pitched Washington an ambitious development plan to confront the issue.

They want to pump about $10 billion into the region to create jobs and lift living standards, with the bulk of funding coming from the United States, Perez told Reuters. He hopes the plan could come up with about $2 billion a year from 2015 to 2019, a sum he equated to roughly 10 percent of annual U.S. spending on border security and immigration enforcement.

"Now we understand it's not simply a question of the United States saying: 'Right, here's $2 billion a year for five years' for example - the governments of the three countries have to play their part too," the conservative Perez, who took power in early 2012, said in an interview late on Monday.

The US aid package would boost infrastructure and provide more jobs in all three countries, especially in areas that send large numbers of migrants to the United States, he added.

The three Central American governments are urging the United States to shoulder the lion's share of the costs, arguing that U.S. demand for illegal narcotics has fueled violence among drug gangs across much of the impoverished region.

"The United States has to support this, it has no other option," Guatemala's foreign minister, Carlos Morales, told Reuters. "If they don't support it, the crisis will kick off again, you can count on it."

Perez said he hoped the United States would put up about 60 percent of funding. "But we'll have to discuss it calmly and see what each individual country can do, and what can be achieved by common consent."

During meetings in New York in September, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry told Central American officials he hoped Congress could approve about $300 million in funding, Morales said, noting the sum was "nothing" given the scale of the problem.

Central American leaders are due to meet Vice President Joe Biden on Nov. 12 in Washington to sound out U.S. support for their plan, Morales added.--SNIP--

(OCT 2014---Reporting by Dave Graham; Editing by Kieran Murray) http://news.yahoo.com/u-stump-billions-curb-central-america-migration-perez-171130651.html

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REFERENCE Ex-Guatemalan president and VP charged in corruption scheme
Published June 16, 2016 / · Associated Press

FILE PIC - In this April 20, 2016, file photo, Guatemala's former Vice-President Roxana Baldetti, wearing a yellow scarf, and former President Otto Perez Molina, back center, wait for the start of a court hearing in Guatemala City. Perez and Baldetti have been formally charged on Thursday, June 16, 2016, in a sprawling corruption scheme that emptied government coffers and laundered money to be spent on Miami shopping sprees, real estate and luxury vehicles. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo, File)

The case accuses 70 people, including former President Otto Perez Molina and his Vice President Roxana Baldetti. Prosecutor Julio Barrios Prado said Thursday that the scheme involved illegal financing, embezzlement and money laundering.

Barrios told Perez Molina that the money was used to buy millions of dollars worth of goods and services. Baldetti allegedly received $38 million in kickbacks for at least 70 public works contracts.

Perez Molina and Baldetti are already jailed pending trial for another corrupt scheme in which companies paid bribes to avoid customs duties. That case led to their resignations.

SOURCE http://www.foxnews.com/world/2016/06/16/ex-guatemalan-president-and-vp-charged-in-corruption-scheme.html

Since about half of USGov _budge_ come -out-of-thin-air- then 50% of it shouldn’t exist (doesn’t actually exist). All the stuff which USGov was never given authority to fund (illegal) should be stopped. I’m pretty sure the total of all illegal pograms essentially equals the 50% unfunded.

This is _why_ progressives/socialist/communists/subversives created the _federal_reserve_ to grow USAgov outside of the lawful boundaries of the USConstitution. Enabling the creation of a beast government with -money-from-thin-air-. The beast grew and expanded into funding foreign beast objectives. It is so large now that no one even considers returning to constitutional funding and thereby constitutional USGov.

Come now USAians, let’s return to lawful USGov, lawful money and lawful prosperity, by returning to USConstitution. I’m very convinced our fathers knew much more than most of us do. We will be blessed.

How few even here on FR, care - or even know about this.

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