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The Soon Coming Judgment Of God Upon America and How To Escape It 131
toward foreign governments, it mandates economically devastating “public-
private partnerships” in developing nations. If the private sector wants to see any
of the money, it must be in partnership with government. Who knows how much
of this money is wasted on those companies with the best political connections to
the foreign governments in power? Foreign aid invites political corruption by
creating a slush fund under the control of foreign governments.
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Following are a few quotes from several other informed opponents of US foreign aid
policy:
Conservatives condemn foreign aid as a big boondoggle, a socialistic give
away; liberals blast it for propping up military dictators and entangling the United
States in war. Few critics have been willing to see foreign aid for what it really is
—a sophisticated instrument of control.
These studies, the result of careful research by young radicals, show in
actual cases how those who give foreign aid use it to get what they want. They
also reveal the inner workings of institutions and councils who devise the
programs and integrate them with the nastier sides of foreign policy.
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(Steve
Weissman, Trojan Horse, 1974)
The third world war has already started. It is a silent war.... This war is
tearing down Brazil, Latin America and practically all the Third World. Instead of
soldiers dying, there are children [dieing]. It is a war over the Third World debt,
one which has as its main weapon interest, a weapon more deadly than the atom
bomb, more shattering than the laser beam.
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(Luis Inacio Lula da Silva, Head of
Brazil's Workers' Party)
In Africa, Asia, and Latin America, the U.S. Agency for International
Development (AID) has dotted the countryside with “white elephants”: idle
cement plants, near-empty convention centers, abandoned roads, and—perhaps
the biggest white elephant of them all—a growing phalanx of corrupt, meddling,
and overpaid bureaucrats.
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( James Bovard of the Cato Institute)
Food AID
The US food aid program is authorized under Public Law 480 (P.L. 480, or simply food
aid). Its origins go back to 1951 when India experienced severe famine due to drought. India
requested grain from the US to feed its starving people. The US used this as a bargaining chip to
obtain monazite sands, which are strategic materials necessary for the production of nuclear
weapons. India had placed an embargo on the export of these sands after the US nuked Japan. In
congressional debates on the subject Congressman Charles J. Kersten (R-Wis.) didn't mince
words; he stated: “In return for the wheat we are asked to give India, the very least we should ask
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