Add This Clinton Debacle to an Ever-Growing List
Those who idolize the Clintons baffle me. If you're part of their circle I understand. You personally benefit (or at least one assumes you do). If not, what have they done to help you in any way, or for that matter what have they done to help anyone in any way?
We won't settle the matter of the Clintons' contributions to our country here, but we can note their latest debacle in this piece about Bill's leadership of the Commission put together to help Haitians after their disastrous earthquake.
We note especially that the results of his highly publicized efforts to aid the poor Haitian victims leave a lot to be desired, as well as the fact that Hillary had a hand in this as well. Much as Clinton's face was plastered all over the media associating the former President with what appeared to be a mission of mercy, we haven't seen said face similarly connected with any critical appraisals of what, if anything, was accomplished by Bill's efforts on behalf of his political cronies - er, I mean on behalf of the Haitian people. No surprise, of course, that the results should be as dismal as this piece point out. As for Hillary, she'll probably run for President and we probably won't see any critique of her involvement with this debacle. Heck, we've hardly seen much about her handling of the Bengazi disaster, and that may be something that should lead to a Justice Department investigation - if we had a Justice Department that could address this in some sort of objective and, yes, just manner.
We also note the concluding comment regarding the subject of foreign aid. We assume you already understand that foreign aid is not the most efficient use of your tax dollars, unless you're head is in some sort of idealized cloud of "do-gooditude" (not a real word, of course, but a description of the attitude that anything that looks or sounds like it will do some good is, in fact, good, whether or not it actually does any good at all),
We won't settle the matter of the Clintons' contributions to our country here, but we can note their latest debacle in this piece about Bill's leadership of the Commission put together to help Haitians after their disastrous earthquake.
We note especially that the results of his highly publicized efforts to aid the poor Haitian victims leave a lot to be desired, as well as the fact that Hillary had a hand in this as well. Much as Clinton's face was plastered all over the media associating the former President with what appeared to be a mission of mercy, we haven't seen said face similarly connected with any critical appraisals of what, if anything, was accomplished by Bill's efforts on behalf of his political cronies - er, I mean on behalf of the Haitian people. No surprise, of course, that the results should be as dismal as this piece point out. As for Hillary, she'll probably run for President and we probably won't see any critique of her involvement with this debacle. Heck, we've hardly seen much about her handling of the Bengazi disaster, and that may be something that should lead to a Justice Department investigation - if we had a Justice Department that could address this in some sort of objective and, yes, just manner.
We also note the concluding comment regarding the subject of foreign aid. We assume you already understand that foreign aid is not the most efficient use of your tax dollars, unless you're head is in some sort of idealized cloud of "do-gooditude" (not a real word, of course, but a description of the attitude that anything that looks or sounds like it will do some good is, in fact, good, whether or not it actually does any good at all),
Left behind is a mishmash of low quality, poorly thought-out development experiments and half-finished projects.
Haitians are angry, frustrated and increasingly suspicious of the motives of the IHRC and of its top official, Mr. Clinton. Americans might feel the same way if they knew more about this colossal failure. One former Haitian official puts it this way: "I really cannot understand how you could raise so much money, put a former U.S. president in charge, and get this outcome."
...Foreign aid is notoriously wasteful and often counterproductive. Even when the money is not going directly to Swiss bank accounts it is rarely allocated to its highest use because the process is fundamentally political. Contractors with all the wrong training and incentives but the right connections have the best chance of winning jobs. No surprise, the GAO says that USAID's Haiti reports have been incomplete and not timely.
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