Foreign Money Sinks – Ukraine Utterly Corrupt

Even if Americans do not have a libertarian bone left in their bodies, they should reject foreign interventions (wars in particular) on money grounds alone. Interventions chew through enormous amounts of money. Costs are astronomical. Money goes completely to waste. The corruption in many foreign countries permeates the whole system, and these places become money sinks, absorbing all the American dollars they can get. Aid, medical supplies, food, arms and everything else is stolen and converted into cash wherever possible.

Ukraine is yet another one of these pits of corruption. Accounting firm Ernst and Young placed Ukraine in the top three corrupt countries in 2012, the other two being Colombia and Brazil. U.S. diplomats describe Ukraine as a kleptocracy. Other measures place Ukraine as 118th among 179 countries in corruption.

Congress is totally irresponsible to shower money and arms upon Ukraine for any reason. Those religious people and groups whom Laurence Vance finds are constantly and blindly supporting every U.S. military move need to find some other passages in their bibles that counsel not showering aid on crooks, deadbeats and no-goods and not supporting a government like that of America that is a rotten steward of the taxes it imposes. I am 100% sure that such passages exist in their bibles, but I think they should search for them, not me.

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5:31 pm on December 14, 2014