Foreign Aid

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just received foreign aid
or is expecting to get their regular installment of foreign aid will be more
likely to listen to new ideas. Because some countries are so dependent on their
regular installments of foreign aid, they are willing to appease countries such
as the U.S who are giving it. When looked at closely, foreign aid may be
considered an elaborate system of legal bribery. This becomes evident when
countries do what they would normally not consider doing in order to continue
receiving foreign aid. The U.S supplies financial foreign aid to many different
countries; sometimes this foreign aid is in a form of a loan. For example,
recently the U.S. supplied Mexico with a loan in order to save the falling value
of the Peso. This loan was denigrated by much of the U.S. population because
many people don't understand why the U.S. should care about the falling value of
the Mexican Peso. First of all, deflation of the Peso means a loss of jobs in
Mexico which would in turn ...

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feed their people, then that is what the U.S must do. Because
reinstatement of the old regime would result in turmoil throughout the world.
After communism was overthrown in the former Soviet Union the world went through
big changes. There was no longer two world super powers, and all of a sudden a
40 year cold war ended. As stated the U.S. uses foreign aid as a tool to
implement their political views in other countries. In January of 1996 Robert
Dole, the speaker of the House, commented that if Russia didn't pull out of
Chechnya the U.S. would rethink the up coming aid package to Russia. In 1997
the U.S. has over 800 million budgeted for aid to Russia and other former ...

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