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"There is a kind of foreign assistance trap. If someone else -- in this case the international community -- is responsible for delivering goods and services, the domestic machinery will never get stronger and more capable. It is important to feed people, but better if indigenous agriculture can do so. The health care and educational systems have to become capable of doing their jobs. And it would be empowering for legislators to pass bills -- democratically -- that dealt with a country's social ills. It is fine to have international NGOs provide services -- they are often desperately needed. But at some point the government and local NGOs have to take responsibility for the welfare of the people." - Condoleezza Rice

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October 6, 2012

What George Will would have asked during the Presidential debate
A critical one for President Obama: "Your deep-blue Illinois — like another essentially one-party Democratic state, California — is buckling under the weight of its portion of the estimated $2.5 trillion in unfunded state pension obligations. Will you promise to oppose attempts to force the taxpayers to bail out badly governed states?"

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