The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance."

-Cicero, 55 BC

It was Peter Bauer who pointed out that foreign aid is the means by which poor people in rich countries are forced to give money to rich people in poor countries. After all, how else are the families of African dictators and their ministers going to maintain their mansions along the French Riviera? How would they be able to navigate Europe's roads? If not for American and British foreign aid, luxurious chateaus would go empty, unsold. And bank accounts in Switzerland, Grand Cayman, Panamá, and elsewhere just don't get filled by themselves. Foreign aid corruption continues to persist in this manner.

No doubt the people of North Carolina who are homeless because of the hurricane can sleep better knowing that African dictators' families have a roof over their heads in Gstaad and Lake Como. Americans who have not received help from FEMA because the money allocated to that agency went toward illegal immigrants' welfare and because some had Vote Trump signs in their yard should realize that there are priorities and they should not be heartless.

And to be fair, it is not just dictators who receive the benefits from the money. It seems that $35,000 went toward providing Cameroons with comic books, $1.5 million to promote homosexuality in Serbia, and $2 million to make the Ethiopians wear shoes. 

Yet, one only has to look at Haiti and Africa to notice that after billions of dollars spent on "economic development" over many decades, all of those countries remain pigsties, whose cities don't even have a sewer system, something that Rome developed 2,000 years ago (and it is not rocket science). And Afghanistan? Though the cretin from Crawford, Texas swore against nation-building, that country at one point received the most foreign aid of all the parasites.