Must read!--They declare "success" by money "raised". Not by delivering the promised aid!-----The Humanitarian-Industrial Complex - by Michael Smith

How Western aid became an industry first and a moral mission second - Michael Smith

• ProPublica (a hard left “news” outlet) marked Christmas Day with a story designed to shock the conscience: the claim that the elimination of USAID funding has driven pregnant African women to eat clay and charcoal and left thousands without AIDS medication or contraception. 
• Democratic politicians now insist that hundreds of thousands of children may die because decades-old foreign-aid programs are losing U.S. taxpayer support...

Critics abroad have rushed to condemn the United States for turning off the spigot. 

• Yet few acknowledge that many NGOs skim off vast sums—sometimes millions in executive salaries—before a dime is converted into medicine or food. 
• The patronage culture surrounding federal grants has become so routine that when watchdogs began exposing specific abuses, Americans were struck not by the fact that skimming existed, but by the sheer scale of it...

Anyone who has worked internationally knows that “facilitation” arrangements often grease the skids. That is not news. 

• But what has startled many Americans is discovering that enormous sums never leave U.S. soil at all. Investigations have revealed cases in which 75 to 90 percent of taxpayer funding vanished into “administrative costs,” with only pennies per dollar reaching the ground—if any did...