THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
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Volume X, Issue # 306, November 18, 2008
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
Government Committed to & Acting in Accord with Conservative Principles
Ensures a Nation's Strength, Progress, & Prosperity
WE'RE BROKE, SO LET'S GIVE OUR MONEY TO FOREIGNERS
By Alan Caruba
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY, LIBERAL DEMOCRATS, & U.S. FOREIGN AID POLICY: THE COMING OBAMA PRESIDENCY,
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY-CONTROLLED CONGRESS, & THE FOREIGN AID LEGISLATION THAT LIBERAL LEFTIST POLITICIANS
INTEND TO FOIST ON AMERICANS -- HOW THE GLOBAL POVERTY ACT & COMPARABLE LEGISLATION WILL WRECK THE
AMERICAN ECONOMY, LEAVE AMERICANS BEREFT OF THE ENERGY THEY REQUIRE, & RUIN THE FUTURE OF THE AMERICAN
NATION -- WHY FOREIGN AID PROGRAMS ADVOCATED BY THE POLITICAL LEFT & IMPLEMENTED BY LIBERAL LEFTIST
POLITICIANS & BUREAUCRATS FAIL TO ENHANCE U.S. NATIONAL DEFENSE & SECURITY
FULL STORY:
“Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member
of Congress, but then I repeat myself.” – Mark Twain
Given the talk of President-Elect Barack Hussein Obama’s possible selection of U.S. Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton as
U.S. Secretary of State in his new administration, the likelihood of “change” is growing more distant by the hour.
The Obama administration is going to look very much like the Clinton administration and, if anyone recalls, we spent the
1990s sorting out its many scandals and failures, despite a healthy economy bequeathed by the Reagan years. Bill
Clinton finished his term pardoning, among a raft of miscreants, Linda Evans, a former member of the Weatherman
terrorist group led by Obama pal, William Ayers.
A raft of insanely Liberal legislation is waiting to be foisted on Americans. One up for consideration by the lame duck
Congress is S. 2433, otherwise known as the “Global Poverty Act of 2007.”
In his book, The White Man’s Burden: Why the West’s Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done so Much Ill and so Little
Good, William Easterly noted that, in 2002 --
“We had the world’s twenty-five most undemocratic government
rulers (out of 199 countries the World Bank rated on democracy)
get a sum of $9 billion in foreign aid … [and] similarly, the world’s
most corrupt countries got $9.4 billion in foreign aid.”
Easterly, an expert on such aid efforts, pointed out:
“Since donors understandably don’t want to admit they are
dealing with bad governments, diplomatic language in aid
agencies becomes an art form. A war is a ‘conflict-related
reallocation of resources.’ Aid efforts to deal with homicidal
warlords are ‘difficult partnerships.’ Countries whose presidents
loot the treasury experience ‘governance issues.’
It is estimated that, at least, a billion of the world’s population lives in poverty. Nobody denies it remains widespread, but
poverty is solved by maintaining educational systems that ensure literacy and other useful skills, encouraging
entrepreneurship, and mostly by ending the corruption that is the hallmark of virtually every nation on the continent of
Africa, the distinguishing feature of Middle Eastern nations, and too many others.
For decades, the nations of the West have transferred billions of dollars to nations with no evidence of any progress.
The Global Poverty Act proposes to work with what is possibly the most corrupt international institution in the world, the
United Nations, as well as with other “international organizations, international financial institutions, the governments of
developing and developed countries, United States and international nongovernmental organizations, civil society
organizations, and other appropriate entities….”
Its expressed purpose is --
“To require the President to develop and implement a comprehensive
strategy to further the United States foreign policy objective of
promoting the reduction of global poverty, the elimination of extreme
global poverty, and the achievement of the Millennium Development
goal of reducing by one-half the proportion of people worldwide
between 1990 and 2015, who live on less than $1 a day.”
Its sponsors include U.S. Senator Barack Obama and a who’s who of Liberal legislators that include Joe Biden, John Kerry,
Diane Feinstein, et al.
Let us understand this. We and the rest of the world are not under attack from Islamofascists because of poverty. This is a
movement drawn entirely from the Koran, an alleged holy book that serves as a battle plan for the complete
subjugation of the world to Islam. We’re not going to end this conflict by giving al-Qa'ida, the Taliban, or the nations in
which they flourish a few billion.
As Easterly and many others point out, much, if not most, of the foreign aid the U.S.A. has spread around the world has
been a complete and utter waste of our financial resources. The poverty it was supposed to end continues and will continue
until the recipient nations operate under the rule of law that is not laid down by the dictators who control and loot nations.
The Global Poverty Act of 2007 will further sap the United States of its financial resources at the same time they should be
applied to the nation’s aging infrastructure and resolve the huge burdens of reckless debt that exist from small towns up the
states and the federal government.
This is just the beginning of comparable legislation that will wreck America’s economy, leave us bereft of the energy we
require, and ruin the future of “Generation O,” along with the rest of us.
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
Foreign Aid -- International Economic Development:
The U.S. Economy, National Security, & Global Anti-Poverty Programs
Political Economy -- Philosophies, Systems, & Public Policies:
Government, the Economy, & Economic Prosperity
Alan Caruba is a veteran business and science writer, a Public Relations Counselor, and Founder of the National Anxiety Center, a
clearinghouse for information about media-driven scare campaigns. Caruba writes a weekly commentary, "Warning Signs," posted
on the Internet website of the National Anxiety Center, which is located at
www.anxietycenter.com.
Caruba has a daily blog at http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com.
Caruba’s most recent book, Right Answers: Separating Fact from Fantasy, has been published by Merril Press. Books
previously authored by Caruba include A Pocket Guide to Militant Islam, The United Nations Versus the United States: The
UN's Plan to Control Planet Earth, and America: A Nation Without Borders -- A Pocket Guide to Immigration Issues.
© Alan Caruba 2008
Published with Permission of Alan Caruba
ACaruba@AOL.Com
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