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Mutual Funds, Drunken Sailors, And What The Future May Hold
A U.S. program, designed, according to The Washington
POst to
"new small and medium-size businesses, building trust and spreading the wealth," is
instead enriching those it was unintended to, the traditional power brokers in
Afghanistan, while, according to The Post, having "created new ones."
According to the report, the money that the U.S.
is putting into Afghanistan
"may have exacerbated some of the problems it set out to solve and is a major
contributor to the corruption that has hobbled U.S. efforts." In other words,
the U.S. is funding the opposition while the White House and Congress want to
raise taxes on small business owners and those who still hold jobs.
So, here's where things stand. According to The Post: 'After eight years in Afghanistan
and more than $50 billion spent, the United States still has no "no comprehensive
database on reconstruction contracts" and no integrated system to track projects
that are "completed, ongoing and planned," Special Inspector General Arnold Field
told Congress in mid-July. President Obama has asked for an additional $20 billion
in fiscal 2011.'
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Translated into plain English, the
U.S. doesn't have a clue as to where its money is going,
or where it's been in Afghanistan. Meanwhile U.S. soldiers
are dying there on a regular basis. And the U.S. government
continues to put more money there, while the U.S. economy
struggles and the threat of social unrest at home rises.
To be sure, the great bureaucratic machine is now in full gear, or soon will
be. The Post reports that Rear Adm. Kathleen Dussault is the head of "a new team
of forensic auditors sent to examine military contracts in Afghanistan." And
the admiral's assessment is not very encouraging, as she notes: ""We have the
best of intentions," but "we need to look at how we're doing business."
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