Thursday, October 4, 2012

Foreign Aid scandal, billions of US taxpayer dollars funneled out the door yearly, no one knows exactly where money goes or what it does except it's given to corrupt countries with no loyalty to the US

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10/3/12, "The Scandal that is foreign Aid," Alred. S. Regnery

"The US Agency for International Development (USAID), the State Department entity that administers foreign aid, has admitted that it really has no idea how much US taxpayers’ money is used for its intended purpose and how much lines the pockets of corrupt politicians or winds up in Swiss banks. According to USAID’s Inspector General, the agency failed, in 2009, to conduct mandatory annual audits of about $500 million in funds transferred to 52 foreign countries because “it was unable to produce an inventory of all organizations it gives money to.” People familiar with the way USAID works believe the Inspector General’s comment is vastly understated.

Excepting Israel, eight countries receiving the most US foreign aid are the eight most corrupt countries in the world Sudan, Kenya, Pakistan, Uganda, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Egypt, and Columbia, according to www.AIDMonitor.com, a watchdog group. Even worse, nobody has any idea whether US aid actually does further US national security interests. A 2006 report from the Government Accountability Office, for example, criticized both the State Department and the Defense Department for failing to measure how the funding actually contributes to U.S. goals.

One thing US aid does not do is instill any sort of loyalty to the United States. During September of this year, anti-US demonstrations unfolded in 29 countries, all with large Muslim populations. Those 29 countries received, over three years between 2008 and 2010, a total of $29 billion dollars in assistance from the US (excluding Iraq and Afghanistan, which between them received $44 billion over the same period). 

And did any of those countries support us in their votes in the United Nations? Only one – Turkey – voted, during 2011, with the US more than half the time, and only four – Georgia, Ukraine, Peru, and El Salvador – more than 25%."...


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