Lots of checks going to Afghanistan
Click here to enlarge and make the infographic interactive.
15 comments
big pharm has a lot to lose. an international special interest group would be very concerned about losing their opium factory. amercan government is nothing more than a guard gog for special interests. accept that and youll see why you as an individual mean nothing to this tyrranical government that we all wanna bitch about.
we werent just at war we were occupying their country. yall may check into putting the shoe on the other foot as concerns someone "appreciating" our "aid" after we decimated their country. gee i wonder.
funny, it says donated. I didn't donate. it was stolen from my paycheck in the way a taxes. I disagree with giving our money away and then raising our taxes. i also disagree with destroying a country, then paying to rebuild it with our money, then raising taxes. The worst part of all is that the needy in these countries do not see the money, it goes right to their gov or special interest groups. look up haiti, they are still in disaster mode. the donated food rotted in warehouses, the money is still in "a fund" no housing, nothing. yeah text haiti to donate,,,,,, my ass! 20 years ago we airdropped food into africa, it was seized! its all corruption!!!!!!!
Interestingly military aid, which comprises a huge part of our foreign aid, was excluded. How come?
Afghanistan is a sinkhole for anything. Foreign aid won't help there until you get rid of the corruption.
It goes to the site, but the "enlarge" link on the site isn't finding the visualy server.
[...] a recent post we noted that more foreign aid flows into Afghanistan than any other country. Part of that aid appears to be going to build “ghost bases.” Sadly the rest of it [...]