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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mephisto who wrote (8928)	12/29/2001 8:43:59 PM
From: Mephisto	Respond to of 93284

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To: Mephisto who wrote (8928)	12/30/2001 4:01:05 AM
From: jttmab	Respond to of 93284

From your article....so typically "American". Still, doubling our foreign aid budget sounds like an impossible dream. But is it? We may be a Scrooge nation, but we are not a nation of Scrooges. Not only are Americans often generous as individuals, they are -- without knowing it -- apparently willing to give substantially more foreign aid than the nation actually does. When asked how much of the federal budget should be devoted to foreign aid, Americans typically come up with a number around 10 percent -- about 20 times what we currently spend. Voters are, however, misinformed: They think that the share of foreign aid in federal spending should be cut to 10 percent. And they wonder why foreigners don't show more gratitude for all the money we give them. Americans are, in other words, living in the past: The Marshall Plan ended more than 50 years ago, but they haven't noticed. jttmab