
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, March 11, 1992                   TAG: 9203110331
SECTION: EDITORIAL                    PAGE: A-6   EDITION: METRO 
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FOREIGN AID IS MONEY DOWN RAT HOLE

SINCE foreign aid was started in 1946, our government has poured hundreds of billions of dollars taken from the American people into these programs.

We have given huge amounts of money to corrupt, anti-American rulers who have lined their pockets and created large bureaucracies that consumed the funds.

We have given aid to both sides in numerous wars and disputes (India vs. Pakistan, Ethiopia vs. Somalia, Israel vs. Egypt, Algeria vs. Morocco, etc.)

We have given money to oil-rich OPEC nations, communist and socialist nations, and nations whose leaders don't want to cure poverty because the amount of aid they receive is pegged to the depth of their nation's poverty.

Has any of this bought us friends? Has buying friendship ever been successful?

There should be no more pouring taxpayer's money down this rat hole. ALBERT W. STEWART ROANOKE

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