Foreign Aid Is Not the Problem — Inequality Is
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By Sam Pizzigati, Inequality.org
At a feeding center supported by World Vision, local staff check children for malnourishment in Doolow, Somalia, August 27, 2011. The World Health Organization now sees Somalia at risk for its third famine in 25 years. The last famine left over a quarter-million dead. (Photo: Sven Torfinn / The New York Times)
Americans on average, pollsters report, believe that over a quarter of the federal budget -- 26 percent -- goes for foreign aid. But outlays for foreign aid, the actual budget numbers show, make up just 1 percent of what the federal government annually expends.
Don't expect this startling gap between perception and reality to narrow anytime soon. We now have in the White House a President who's exaggerating -- at every opportunity --...