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2005-12-12 International-UN-NGOs

Bush plans overhaul of US foreign aid system

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Posted by lotp 2005-12-12 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 For the benefit of current USAID employees, NGOs, PVOs, recipient countries and everyone else with their hands out or issuing their opinions, would it be imprudent or arrogant to remind them of the fact that it's our money, the tax-payers of America, and that President Bush and VP Cheney are the only elected officials who answer to all Americans?

It's our money. It should serve our interests alone. Everybody else, and that means you, Kofi Anon and Jan Egeland, and your parasitic Vulture Elite UN in particular, can STFU.

Here's where it's gone in the past:
GreenBook
YellowBook

And there are tons of info (Reports and Project History Docs) available at the Development Experience Clearinghouse

Posted by .com 2005-12-12 00:28|| 2005-12-12 00:28|| Front Page Top

#2 Article: Critics in the aid community fear the reorganisation will lead to a politicisation of foreign assistance, where aid will become subordinated to the Bush administrationâs drive to promote democracy.

Where aid money goes is a political decision, since we, the taxpayers, provide that funding.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2005-12-12 00:54|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2005-12-12 00:54|| Front Page Top

#3 Wow, North Korea received $97mil in military assistance. I wonder what that was for.

Posted by Rafael 2005-12-12 00:59|| 2005-12-12 00:59|| Front Page Top

#4 Rafael---My guess is that it went to the military. Heh heh heh.....

Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul 2005-12-12 02:16|| 2005-12-12 02:16|| Front Page Top

#5 I was thinking it prolly went toward railroad facilities and maintenance, myself. Heh...

Posted by .com 2005-12-12 02:23|| 2005-12-12 02:23|| Front Page Top

#6 My guess is that it went to the military

But apparently it wasn't delivered in the proper form - a JDAM from 10,000 feet above. Should've shipped with USAF Expedited Inc.

Posted by Rafael 2005-12-12 02:31|| 2005-12-12 02:31|| Front Page Top

#7 Perhaps it's time to look into the annual $2 billion we give to Egypt.

Posted by DMFD 2005-12-12 07:19|| 2005-12-12 07:19|| Front Page Top

#8 HAts off to Bush for FINALLY getting to this. .com, you stole our thunder and are exactly right! It's the Taxpayer's money and it shoud serve our interests! Having been forced to work with AID I can tell you it is full of Cindy Sheehan, burkenstock, tree hugging, anything the govt says is wrong, type moonbats!
Carol Lancaster's comments are really taken as the objective statement for AID. Thank god something is about to happen, the agency is extreemly important and completely mismanaged.

Posted by 49 pan">49 pan 2005-12-12 08:01|| 2005-12-12 08:01|| Front Page Top

#9 The proposed reorganisation could lead to a takeover by the State Department of the independent US Agency for International Development.

Oh, yeah, right. So we'll have the fox watching the hen house now. Big deal. State gets a reward for back stabbing the President. I'm so impressed. Next, independent audits by Arthur Anderson.

Posted by Angomort Ulomoque7221 2005-12-12 09:20|| 2005-12-12 09:20|| Front Page Top

#10 Condoleeza Rice is an active shepherd at State. Granted, it must be much like herding cats, but I can't imagine the diplomatic corp are running as freely as they have in the past. The power to hire and fire is a powerful incentivizer, and I wouldn't mind seeing her stay home for a bit to concentrate on cleaning out that particular Aegean Stable.

Posted by trailing wife 2005-12-12 09:30|| 2005-12-12 09:30|| Front Page Top

#11 I worked for a few months at an NGO that was funded by USAID. When I started, my boss gave me a quick sketch of the organization and showed me how the funding and programming were washed through at least 20 stateside 'entities' before it went to the outposts in-country. The coffee, donut, and bagel bills just for the meetings between all these entities in DC alone prolly consumed half the funding. And the big boss had to fly twice a year to the Lagos office because shockingly, the Nigerian accounting systems differed somewhat from international standards.

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2005-12-12 09:33|| 2005-12-12 09:33|| Front Page Top

#12 Way over due. Hopefully now the food and other crap we send to the Norks all over Africa and lots of enemies or dictators ect... The LLL's problem is that they are welfare believers that if you give someone a fish suddenly they will learn how to live you have to show them how to catch a fish or you just create a dependent that the more you take care of the more they mulitple and the more that is needed. Not to mention they begin to think you owe it to them and they dont even appreciate what you give them.

Posted by C-Low 2005-12-12 09:44|| 2005-12-12 09:44|| Front Page Top

#13 Condoleezza Rice, secretary of state, and Stephen Krasner, head of policy planning, are leading the reforms.
I love it, going to be damn near impossible to play the "Black folks get screwed" card with her in charge.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2005-12-12 10:26|| 2005-12-12 10:26|| Front Page Top

#14 Perhaps we should use the money to fund our chunk of the UN and then tell the former recepients that any money not getting through to them was probably stolen by UN Bureocrats and perhaps they should help us straighten out the den of thieves and liars instead of kneejerk voting against the USA because it makes you feel manly and poor.

Posted by rjschwarz 2005-12-12 11:51|| 2005-12-12 11:51|| Front Page Top

#15 I know what to do with foreign aid.

Posted by Ragnar DanneskjÃ¶ld 2005-12-12 21:47|| 2005-12-12 21:47|| Front Page Top

#16 Redneck - their just call her an oreo (black on the outside and white on the inside) and get away with it. Or a 'slave of Bush' or anything but a respectable Doctor or PhD!

After all a black (or woman or 'latino' or ....) simply couldn't have earned all her honors on their own - without Democratic help! (That is the Democratic mindset not mine).

Posted by CrazyFool 2005-12-12 22:12|| 2005-12-12 22:12|| Front Page Top

#17 Ufda, Ragnar!

Posted by lotp 2005-12-12 22:12|| 2005-12-12 22:12|| Front Page Top

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