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Klarissa1 year, 5 months ago
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Obama helped push funding the UN Millenium project through the house on a VOICE vote.
This is giving it to the UN to send it to Africa.
How about oversight? How about sending funds in case of fraud.
If you think that the UN has done a wonderful, honest job, I'd like to hear about it.
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hamy1 year, 5 months ago
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What about all of the fraud in Iraq? Bush and his cronies have hidden it but if I am not mistaken there was a little story about a billion dollars in "lost" money. The bribes and corruption within the Iraqi government has been well reported and yet Bush keeps funneling money into their hands.
So how can one form of misused aid be any different than another? I don't here you whining about what the imbecile in charge has done?
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hyperbola1 year, 5 months ago
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Well Klarissa, the world's best economists (e.g. Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel prize) estimate that bushies iraq war will cost Americans about $3 TRILLION. 0.7% of our GNP amounts to about $70 billion per year.
In short, for the cost of bushies useless, illegal war, we could have financed aid to poor countries for the next 40 years. Would have been a much more sensible investment.
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