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thedoc wrote:

chaz wyman wrote: Foreign Aid has always existed for the benefit of the donor more than the benefit of the recipient.

So giving money or materials to another country, and getting nothing in return, somehow benefits the country giving it away, more than the country receiving it, even when the citizens of the receiving country condem the giver, and call for it's distruction?

No, no one ever gives without getting something back. You are living in a dream world.
Aid helps the North control the South, setting the prices for the goods it takes out of the South. Price fixing and import controls makes sure that Starbucks only has to pay 0.5c for each cup of coffee that it charges $2.50 for. This is true with all imported goods , and the Aid goes to the elites to keep their mouths shut. The politicos get there Mercedes and machine guns (most aid is military BTW), whilst the occasional drought gets treated with a few sacks of grain.
In addition the US gets to keep the lid on powder kegs like Egypt (which it did for 30 years) so that it does not attack Israel, which is owned mainly by American business.

There is such a thing as free aid, by that is not paid by government, but by charities such as Plan International, Christian Aid, Save the Children Fund, Oxfam etc..

Stop stop bleating about nothing. You don't know what you are talking about.

Again, foreign aid is for fools, regardless of who gives it, who receives it, or for what purpose.

bobevenson wrote:Again, foreign aid is for fools, regardless of who gives it, who receives it, or for what purpose.

And neither do you know what you are talking about.

chaz wyman wrote:

bobevenson wrote:Again, foreign aid is for fools, regardless of who gives it, who receives it, or for what purpose.

And neither do you know what you are talking about.

I do too, I'm the King of Evensonomics.

bobevenson wrote:

chaz wyman wrote:

bobevenson wrote:Again, foreign aid is for fools, regardless of who gives it, who receives it, or for what purpose.

And neither do you know what you are talking about.

I do too, I'm the King of Evensonomics.

Exactly. King of nothing

Evensonomics is the wave of the future, my friend, the political economics of a prophet!