{"id":354,"date":"2005-01-19T09:11:58","date_gmt":"2005-01-19T16:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=354"},"modified":"2005-01-27T16:09:21","modified_gmt":"2005-01-27T23:09:21","slug":"ten-lies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=354","title":{"rendered":"Ten Lies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To start your day, the <a href=\"http:\/\/diplomadic.blogspot.com\">Diplomadic<\/a> crew rebut <a href=\"http:\/\/diplomadic.blogspot.com\/2005\/01\/our-favorite-ten-lies.html\">ten common lies<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>2) Foreign Aid Helps Poor People.<\/b> No. Foreign aid largely helps the High Priest Vulture Elite, airlines, restaurants, hotels, car-rental companies and other service industries that cater to the HPVE. Freedom, trade, capitalism and education help poor people. Plus it also matters that their culture teaches them a work ethic (see number 8 below). The old saw that &#8220;foreign aid is when the poor people of a rich country give money to the rich people of a poor country&#8221; has more than a kernel of truth. BTW, try to name any country that has been developed by foreign aid.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To start your day, the Diplomadic crew rebut ten common lies: 2) Foreign Aid Helps Poor People. No. Foreign aid largely helps the High Priest Vulture Elite, airlines, restaurants, hotels, car-rental companies and other service industries that cater to the HPVE. Freedom, trade, capitalism and education help poor people. Plus it also matters that their &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=354\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ten Lies&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}