April 2005
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Inductum Administratione: de Causibus Auxilii...
At some point, I should like to write an essay on why no action is truly altruistic (short version: you wouldn’t do it if you didn’t feel good about doing it - there’s your reward), but today I am going to discuss a specific action that has even more self-interest at heart: foreign aid. In this essay, I show that self preservation is one of the foremost reasons for offering such...
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Inductum Administratione: de Aggerando Auxilii...
Here I make a very quick analysis of some points made by our current federal administration (that of George Walker Bush). All quotes and numbers come from http://cfrterrorism.org/policy/foreignaid.html
First, I combine two statements:
“Do Americans understand how much of the U.S. budget goes to foreign aid?”
“No. A 2001 poll sponsored by the University of Maryland showed...