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From: mjk@tty3b.UUCP
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Subject: Re: RE: Anti-American Fulminations
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Date: Mon, 23-Jan-84 14:06:02 EST
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Scott, you're wrong about American awareness.  A recent study, "What We
Don't Know Can Hurt Us" by the American Council on Education, found that
one American in four couldn't find El Salvador on a map, and fewer than
half know that the U.S. belongs to NATO.

Furthermore, U.S. foreign aid is (or should be) a national embarassment.
The richest nation in the world gives less as a percentage of GNP than do
most of the Western European nations, and even some underdeveloped nations
(like India) give a greater percentage of GNP than we do.  The aid that
we do give often comes back in profits for U.S.-based corporations.   For
example, one study by an American bank found that for every dollar in U.S.
aid to Central America, three dollars came back to the U.S.  As someone
once remarked, the Alliance for Progress was really an alliance for the
progress of U.S. corporations, not the Central American nations targeted
as its "beneficiaries."

Mike Kelly
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