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Pro Libertate - For Freedom BUCHANAN-Reform http://gopatgo2000.com/default.htm Q. How much foreign aid do we give to the countries in the former Soviet Union? — D.S., Richardson, TX A. The State Department indicates that U.S. foreign aid for fiscal 1999 to the nations that were once part of the USSR totals some $841 million. This is exclusive of Defense Department spending that ostensibly is to be used to reduce nuclear weaponry (it doesn’t, but that’s another problem). Nor does it include U.S. funding that makes its way through various international organizations such as the International Monetary Fund. Nevertheless, here are the State Department’s totals for U.S. aid spending this year, in millions of dollars: Ukraine $195; Russia, $172; Georgia, $84; Armenia, $80; Kazakstan, $44; Moldova, $36; Kyrgyzstan, $29; Uzbekistan, $28; Azerbaijan, $24; Turkmenistan, $13; Tajikistan, $12; Belarus, $10; and various regional aid, $114. This total is actually quite a comedown from the way the Clinton Administration started out with aid to the former members of the USSR. For example, in fiscal year 1994 alone there was $2.5 billion approved for them. Then-House Majority Leader Richard Gephardt (D-MO), an ardent supporter of the giveaway, called it "the most important issue of our lifetime." Now, however, even the former head of the Moscow office for the U.S. Agency for International Development acknowledges that it didn’t work as promised. Says Janet Ballentyne, "Very large appropriations were pumped in at the start, and anybody with a good idea got funding, and some people without good ideas got funding." However, that has not stopped the preposterous practice. — William P. Hoar http://www.thenewamerican.com/departments/right_answers/1999/vo15no18_answers.htm
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