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Originally posted by LennonCook:
I see figures, I see conclusions, I don't see proofs, and I don't see specifics. The US uses 70% of their aid budget domestically - Ok, what do they use it on, and what counts as 'domestic' in terms of this study? International organisations imposing which impossible conditions?
I hope that this article is just spurting crap... because this is alot of money wastage. And this is before all the UN wastage the anti-UN voices talk of.
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Lennoncook, good points, it also fails to mention whether it's the total aid budget or just the international aid budgets, as well as failing to mention how much is actually spent on transporting food supplies, clothing, bedding, etc. It strongly implies that it's international aid budgets, but doesn't actually say that.
Personally when I donate I always check the fine print to see how much of the $ I'm sending actually gets where it's going, and refuse to give to organizations that consume more than 3% internally. IIRC the Christians Childrens Fund (they're always having ad's on the TV especially around the holidays) uses a whopping 20% of every dollar given on "administrative fees" and they're not even the worst of the lot.
[ 03-01-2005, 08:44 AM: Message edited by: Morgeruat ]