DiscussWorldIssues - Socio-Economic Religion and Political Uncensored Debate - View Single Post - Healthy Capitalism

**peemovvie** · 02-06-2006, 07:00 AM

I don't know much about this particular topic. What I do know however, is that the US donates a huge amount of aid to poor countries every year. And then many people think somehow we are to blame for their poverty, it's ridiculous. For example, I know we gave either Uruguay or Paraguay(I forget which) 2 billion dollars in aid a while back. When they tried to pay us back many years later we refused and told them to keep the money. Meanwhile, our national debt continues to soar... I think that we have to start counting what we are giving away to Africa, etc. I'm sure we have given back far more than we have taken, yet it isn't recorded and our nat. debt. goes up higher and higher.

02-06-2006, 07:00 AM	#3
peemovvie Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 561 Senior Member	I don't know much about this particular topic. What I do know however, is that the US donates a huge amount of aid to poor countries every year. And then many people think somehow we are to blame for their poverty, it's ridiculous. For example, I know we gave either Uruguay or Paraguay(I forget which) 2 billion dollars in aid a while back. When they tried to pay us back many years later we refused and told them to keep the money. Meanwhile, our national debt continues to soar... I think that we have to start counting what we are giving away to Africa, etc. I'm sure we have given back far more than we have taken, yet it isn't recorded and our nat. debt. goes up higher and higher.
	Quote