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There's a number of them:

* Kickbacks and scandal (Kofi Annan's son)
* Where it goes when it gets there (to a dictator or a hospital?)
* Whether it could be spent better elsewhere (India doesn't really need as much aid as it did years ago, some argue)
* Whether it is morally justified to support foreign interests when domestic interests are suffering
* whether it is morally justified to provide aide to terrorist states or military enemies of our allies.

2006-06-09 10:58:09 · answer #1 · answered by Veritatum17 6 · 0 0

What is the controversy?

1) Fraud is rampant in Internation relief efforts from the top of the United Nations to the thug in the street at the end (the guys with the guns are the one's that get it at the street level).

2) The above forementioned fraud often creates the situation where the relief money goes into fueling a war \ terrorist effort.

3) A hand out is a band aid; and the true relief effort of creating jobs and an ecomony are destroyed by 1 & 2 above.

2006-06-09 12:00:47 · answer #2 · answered by netjr 6 · 0 0

Two things.

Poverty is caused by behavior so funding "poverty relief" is, at best a waste of time.

Specifically, evil behavior is what causes poverty and it is VERY difficult to prevent poverty relief from being redirected toward evil behaviors. Much of the time, those evil behaviors are directed toward their benefactors.

Case in point.....the palestinian refugees. Despite MASSIVE relief efforts, they basically live in squalor while their non-evil neighbors in Israel have used far less aid to turn themselves into a properous modern democracy with the rule of law. Much of that aid in palestine is used to fund terrorism and to supply nazi wannabes with guns and bombs so they can cow the rest. These people glorify in murder and want desperately to kill americans. Chanting death to america is their favorite activity after chanting death to Israel.

Giving these people "poverty relief" isn't just counter productive....it's morally wrong.

2006-06-09 10:41:38 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

That is too broad. There is a ton of funding for poverty relief. I don't understand what you are considering a controversy.

2006-06-09 10:47:01 · answer #4 · answered by DAR 7 · 0 0

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2016-11-14 10:00:19 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0 0

Some people believe that countries should only spend money to help their own citizens. I disagree. I believe it's in a country's interest to help people in other countries, because it is an investment in peace, and economic circumstances can change.

2006-06-09 10:56:25 · answer #6 · answered by Duffman 4 · 0 0

Feel free to fund it, voluntarily. I see no reason for you to force me to participate.

2006-06-09 15:01:56 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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