Foreign aid’s demise will be brutal and chaotic. But it offers an opportunity to rethink an inefficient system that has long needed an overhaul https://econ.st/4kqbjyW
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Where did your parents go wrong to raise you in a way that you can talk about killing the sick and the poor like an opportunity, look inward and reflect on that, if you can bear the monster that looks back.
Funding the building of infrastructure and providing economic assistance by paying the salaries of teachers is important. The benefits of global health programs and humanitarian aid are more immediate does not make something like being able to educate a child saved by those vaccines less valuable.
“Donors should focus on what works. Much aid currently does not”
And there it is the fucking moron take of the day. We underfund foreign aid already and with that underfunding has come huge gains for local populations and U.S. influence but let’s listen to a Russian cuck on how that’s a bad thing
Giving stuff to poor people never brought the badged buzz? Share price never rose once on the news. Wasted investment.
Let them starve.
That your alternative plan?
I'm sure all the people who are about to die in agony will at least take solace in knowing that a bunch of rich dickheads and their media stooges have the chance to "rethink" things.
“We need to rethink ‘caring’ for others in a way that we can profit off of it. People will die, and wars will break out over the loss of USAID, so that’s why we recommend investing in funeral homes, and buying stock in Northrop Grumman and Lockheed.”
You could have just written the article without the "but" part. I think that would have been better.
The "but" part isn't going to happen. Even if we somehow navigate our way out of this, the next administration will be doing triage on a myriad of issues that all went unmitigated for too long.
I mean what are we doing here with a headline like that. USAID takes up 1% of the annual budget. Why don’t we go after the defense budget that makes up probably 50% of our annual budget instead. That’s failed 7 straight audits as well.
Great headline Economist! Sure my house only needed some maintenance and updating but burning it down instead gave me time to think about those issues while it turns to embers.
“Ethnic cleansing is undoubtedly horrific, but it presents an opportunity to simplify governance, reduce demographic tensions, and create a more ‘manageable’ society for those left standing.”
When's this coming out? My life and my wife's are deeply linked to UK+US foreign aid. I'd like to see where people think this is going. Massive irreversible damage has been done. No way to reverse or recoup that. There's a way to draw it down, like stopping a production line; this was the wrong way.
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And there it is the fucking moron take of the day. We underfund foreign aid already and with that underfunding has come huge gains for local populations and U.S. influence but let’s listen to a Russian cuck on how that’s a bad thing
Let them starve.
That your alternative plan?
The Economist and Helen Joyce and Abigail Shrier should all go human centipede each other.
Opportunity will, in the least, be watered down by underfunding and stupidity.
Own it you cowards.
Christ almighty.
The intent was cruel, and the benefits won't outweigh any possible good.
To suggest otherwise is shamefull. IMO
Oh go fuck off.
The "but" part isn't going to happen. Even if we somehow navigate our way out of this, the next administration will be doing triage on a myriad of issues that all went unmitigated for too long.
Where does one get overhaul?
Ungrateful...