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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Mucus: [QB] Questing in google: Exhibit A: [URL=http://www.jei.org/Archive/JEIR00/0023w3tab.html]GDP percentages[/URL] Wacky, considering that some articles put the percentage that Israel gets from the US at 30%. Exhibit B: [URL=http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A46707-2001Jan25]Aid abroad is Business Back Home[/URL] [QUOTE] In an era of declining aid budgets, USAID's official Web site proclaims that "the principal beneficiary of America's foreign assistance program has always been the United States." The site notes that nearly 80 percent of USAID contracts and grants go "directly to American firms." It adds that USAID programs, which cost about $7.5 billion last year, have helped create new markets for American goods and "hundreds of thousands of jobs" for U.S. citizens. [/QUOTE] [QUOTE] Other critics fault the buy-American approach. Research by Rep. Jim McDermott (D-Wash.) showed that 53 cents of every dollar spent by the United States on tackling the AIDS crisis in Africa never left the Washington, D.C., area. "Much of the aid is very ineffective," he said. "It is in the hands of various consultants who fly over to Africa for a week and then come back." [/QUOTE]Exhibit C: A dozen articles of the form [URL=http://www.baptiststandard.com/2001/1_22/pages/helms.html]Helms wants churches to do foreign aid[/URL] [QUOTE] Under the Helms proposal, the Agency for International Development would be eliminated and its humanitarian and relief budget of roughly $7 billion a year would be given to a quasi-government foundation that would then make grants to private and religious groups. [/QUOTE]Considering the number of articles I'm hitting about this guy, how successful was he? Given Bush's rather public views on the subject......its rather bothersome. How much of US foreign aid is just thinly disguised Jesuit-style evangelism? Geez. Exhibit 4 : [URL=http://www.terrorismanswers.com/policy/foreignaid2.html]Terrorism: Q&A Foreign Aid[/URL] Exhibit 5: Big huge article with non-governmental donations: [URL=http://www.globalissues.org/TradeRelated/Debt/USAid.asp]US and Foreign Aid[/URL] There's also an nteresting tidbit for that Bill Gates reference. But onto the important part, the math: [QUOTE] Americans privately give at least $34 billion overseas -- more than three times U.S. official foreign aid of $10 billion [/QUOTE]Unfortunately, there are no comparative statistics for other countries. Using the much more recent GDP graph in the last article and assuming that no other country in the world has invented a "charity" (Dr. Evil style fingers): America rises from 22nd place to sixth, right behind Sweden. *shrug* There, we have a partial answer. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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