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Originally Posted by Chris
The US government paid out $44 billion after WW2 for reconstruction under the Marshall Plan. They did not get it back in direct cash terms but the US economy has benefited many times over from the creation of a stable European market into which it can sell its goods and services. Aid that works creates stable overseas territories into which we can send goods, not soldiers.
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Big ,no ,massive difference in helping to build an economy that is capable of sustaining itself providing trade opportunities .A large part of the problem in Africa is that a lot of the countries we give aid to simply cannot and will never be able to support themselves no matter how much money is pumped in