Foreign Aid
It sounds good but doesn’t work as advertised.
Sadly we are discovering what we likely suspected all along — that charities are perfect vehicles for laundering money.
But we, the average shmos, kept politely quiet because we were kept in the dark.
Recently this is beginning to change and so becomes the opportunity to rethink things.
Should nations send money to sovereign nations?
We in the United States have done this from before I was born.
Now it makes sense following a war to help rebuild destroyed and weakened countries — as long as rebuilding wasn’t the incentive by a military-industrial complex to have the war in the first place.
But aside from that, how does aid constantly pouring into a smaller country do anything for anyone except those who are the receivers of the money — meaning government officials?
Countries should be able to stand on their own and giving foreign aid doesn’t help countries, it incentivizes corrupt leaders to stay in power in order to continue receiving the money.
Is there a better way to care for the poor around the world?
There has been for millennia.
It is at the interpersonal level and the underlying motivation is not to give money in order to reduce the guilt of our own selfish hearts.
It is to love others as we have been loved by God and to form safety nets to those around us from where we are. And when we do this as our reasonable act of service to the God we love and who loves us then abundance breaks out.
Not just material, though this can be a part of it, but at the heart level.
This is called bringing the Kingdom of Heaven to earth.
When we leave it to governments to confiscate the wealth of citizens to send to other countries austerity for the masses and corruption of those in power is always the result — never abundance.
Oh, and expect those running these programs to scream bloody murder.