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By definition, according to Compton's Encyclopedia, foreign aid is when money, goods, and services are given by one nation to benefit another nation. While that definition is vague and open to interpretation, nowhere does aid mean to corrupt, hinder development, c ....

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.... Zaire money. Why, we don't know. Mobutu used most of this money to buy lavish estates in France and to establish huge secret bank accounts in Switzerland, Luxembourg and elsewhere. He also kept himself in power through bribes and by buying military support. The US alone has spent over twenty billion dollars in the past twenty years. Between surplus tax dollars and the money we would save from not paying foreign aid, we could pay back the national debt in a very short time. We can accomplish this exponentially, by other countries paying back their debt to us and our money from taxes we can have our debt paid by the year 2000(1). Yet our government is ....