From: Randall Parker 

In <38d4468c{at}w3.nls.net>, the sagacious richhong{at}hawksci.com Richard
Hong perspicated:
> Nice statement, but utterly without merit.  You've neither proved that they
> are even worse, and if they are, that they are worse "as a
result" of our
> aid.

Yet, we don't know that they wouldn't be better either.

If you want to claim there are no controls to compare to since all social
and economic systems are too complex then that argument can be made about
any claim.

> And how about the Marshall Plan?  Another "failure" of our
aid to foreign
> governments?

I don't know. We don't know what would have happened in its absence.

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