Who was it that said foreign aid is a transfer of wealth from the poor in rich countries to the rich in poor countries?
Bob
-----Original Message----- From: travel-to-honduras.....com [mailto:travel-to-honduras.....com] On Behalf Of Wilfredo Munguia Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 8:09 AM To: travel-to-honduras.....com Subject: Re: [travel-to-honduras] Re: Debt relief for Honduras from Digest Number 324
You are partly right on AID. I worked with AID for many many years. AID is given as a token to the country's officials to help the people of the respective countries.. Unfortunately, the people benefit probably one penny out of every dollar. The officials squander the rest. The US is interested primarily in getting the right votes at the UN so countries get AID (which goes to the reigning officials)to vote the way the US wants votes to go...
Edward Campbell wrote:I'll possibly make myself unpopular here, but I don't approve of Aid. For me it's like saying here Africa, here Honduras, your our pitty nations for the month. Have some money.
I would prefer that the G8 remove their tarrifs and quotas so that Hondurans and Africans can work themselves out of poverty themselves.
BTW: I'm going to Honduras in February 2006.
> > Message: 1 > Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2005 06:54:37 -0600 > From: David Ashby > Subject: Debt relief for Honduras > > Honduras is included for debt relief. Note that > anticorruption measures > are required. > I've seen this news before. Let's hope it's true > this time. > Dave Ashby
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