[victim soul]

Food aid directly to the people not the governments and their thieves.

[meema]

Even food aid can't get directly to the people. On the way to distribution, it is stolen, and sold on the black market. All/most of our good intentions pave the road to hell.
As far as I can see, there is nothing much we can do about it as long as we have yokels in Congress like the above Rep. Steve Israel, D, NY.

[TPartyType]

One would like to think you could trust leaders to feed their own damn people, for crying out loud.

[TontoKowalski]

Same song, different verse:

This is exactly why I'm concerned about the $15B in AIDS relief for Africa. I'm not against AIDS relief, but I am against throwing money down a rathole.

I want to see the plan before I agree that this is worthwhile or helpful. I support the President in nearly everything, but I won't support distribution of this aide through the UN or some similar wasteful mechanism.