‘It’s Not actually Going To the People’
” Speaking at a conference at Bethel College, Acton’s Director of Media, Michael Miller, told the audience that while good intentions are necessary in the fight against poverty, they simply aren’t enough. Miller spoke directly on the topic of foreign aid to developing nations:
Western countries providing financial aid to developing nations seems to make sense, but there is no correlation between the extent of aid and economic progress in those countries, Miller said.
Much of the aid goes to foreign governments and helps subsidize corruption, Miller said. “It’s not actually going to the people,” he said, referring to that system as “crony capitalism.” ”
Reblogged this on The Raging Libertarian and commented:
While I’m not big on ANY foreign aid, other than the foreign aid called free trade, if we ARE going to dish out dough, it should be earned by the nations we give it to. Make them work for it. Show us that it is going to whatever you told us you would use it for. We would, in essence, become your ‘employer’, and if we don’t like the results we see, we will ‘fire’ you and cut off the salary.
Nice post!