{"id":61967,"date":"2025-12-06T13:28:48","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T18:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=61967"},"modified":"2025-12-06T13:28:48","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T18:28:48","slug":"bringing-common-sense-to-foreign-aid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=61967","title":{"rendered":"Bringing Common Sense To Foreign Aid"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Friday, PJ Media<\/a> posted an article about changing the American foreign aid model so that it is more efficient and helps the people who need help.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

The truth is that our foreign aid had become a joke \u2014 a way to line pockets and spread wacko leftist ideology more than anything. Rubio told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos \u2014 who tried to do that whole “Trump is killing people by cutting aid” thing \u2014 back in September that “We’re gonna do more than anyone in the world, again, this year, but we’re gonna do it the right way. We’re gonna do it holistically. We’re gonna do it as part of an integrated foreign policy.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

During that interview, Rubio pointed out that the reason why people die is much more nuanced than what the media wants to print. In some regions, wars prevent aid from reaching its target, or gangs steal it before it can reach its intended recipients. In some places, the middlemen, the distributors, simply don’t handle it well, etc. The world is not a one-size-fits-all situation, George.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article includes Secretary of State Rubio’s statement about his plan:<\/p>\n

The United States has spent billions of dollars over the years in helping with health strategies all across the world. \u00a0What we learned over time and especially after coming here, is that oftentimes \u2013 and I\u2019m oversimplifying it, but this is an accurate description \u2013 what would happen is we would go to a country and say we\u2019re going to help you with your health care needs. Then we would drive over to western \u2013 northern Virginia somewhere, find an NGO, one of these organizations, give them all the money, tell them, “go to this country and do their health care program for them.” That NGO would then take about \u2013 some percentage of that money for their overhead and administrative costs, and by the time it got down to it, the host country had very little influence, it was sort of imposed on them, and only a percentage of the overall money ever actually reached the patients and the people on the ground that we were trying to help because of these costs.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This makes no sense. So why are we hiring American and international NGOs to go into other countries and run health care systems that are parallel and sometimes in conflict with the health care systems of the host country? If we\u2019re trying to help countries, help the country, don\u2019t help the NGO to go in and find a new line of business. And so, that\u2019s the model that we\u2019re breaking. We\u2019re not doing this anymore. We are not going to spend billions of dollars funding the NGO industrial complex, while close and important partners like Kenya either have no role to play or have very little influence over how health care money is being spent. Bottom line is, if you want to help a country, work with that country, not work with a third party that imposes things on that country.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

When you eliminate the middle man, more money can go toward solving the problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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