Tax Dollars going to help poor countries

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President Bush on Thursday proposed spending an additional $770 million in emergency food assistance for poor countries, responding to rising food prices that have resulted in social unrest in several nations.



Regardless of what you think about Bush (let's do that debate somewhere else, please), should the US gov't be increasing assistance at this time? Should the gov't be in this kind of assistance at all?



We have plenty of ways to help poverty-stricken countries without spending one tax cent -- ways that are far more efficient than federal gov't bureaucracies.

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Cool with me. I missed that one. Thanks, RJ