We spend $23.5bn on foreign assistance, much of which is mismanaged and corrupted, and not ending up in the hands of those to whom it's intended (i.e. the poor!). The next president needs to make a concerted effort to reform our broken foreign assistance programs. We should use PROVEN models of assistance that will provide for wealth accumulation for the poor from the bottom up -- things like development of microfinance, conditional cash transfer programs, and child development accounts.
Provide incentive for the mid east countries to negotiate Peace. Giving a few countries billions of American dollars yearly, without them having to be accountable for getting along with neighbors, has cost American too many lives over the past 5 decades.
Politicians seem to have an agenda that Americans are not be made aware of, and those are also principles which counter Peace. Is the US working for people of a nation, or for large multi-national corporatons that benefit from chaos?
