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NC Extensions: A/t – #4 “Corruption is High” 228
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2NC Extensions: A/t – #4 “Corruption is High” 2281) Latin American countries are working to fight corruption through new laws and business investment that makes economic growth likely in the short-term. Our evidence is from comprehensive surveys of the region that look at more factors than their evidence, which is speculative and not based on actual policies. Extend our INSIDE COUNSEL evidence. 2) The most accurate Index of political corruption shows that almost every country in Latin America is improving. TIME MAGAZINE, 12 [Tim Padgett, staff writer ; “Tale of Two Corruptos: Brazil and Mexico on Different Transparency Paths,” 12/06, http://world.time.com/2012/12/06/tale-of-two-corruptos-brazil-and-mexico-on-different-transparency-paths/]
[Yuval, fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center; “American Aid to the Middle East: A Tragedy of Good Intentions,”http://www.israeleconomy.org/strat11/strategic11.pdf] U.S. aid, then, creates the strategic equivalent of what investors call “moral hazard” – that is, an inducement to irresponsibility caused by the belief that someone else will bear eventual losses. In foreign policy as in economic policy, then, aid masks the effects of the Israeli elites’ defects. The cycle of error is circular and self-intensifying. Israel’s elites do not wish harm on their people or their nation, but the combination of economic and political interests with a crude idealism in international politics has made them heedless of the consequences of their actions. The violence which began in September 2000 is the starkest example and most direct result of this cycle of errors. 2NC Extensions: A/t – #5 “Aid Solves Corruption” [2/2] 2303) Empirical data supports our argument. Countries receiving the most aid turn out to be the most corrupt. REGNERY, 12 [Alfred, former Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Land and Natural Resources Division for US Justice Department; “The Scandal That Is Foreign Aid,” 10/03, www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2012/10/03/The-Scandal-That-Is-Foreign-Aid] Excepting Israel, eight countries receiving the most US foreign aid are the eight most corrupt countries in the world – Sudan, Kenya, Pakistan, Uganda, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Egypt, and Columbia, according to www.AIDMonitor.com, a watchdog group. Even worse, nobody has any idea whether US aid actually does further US national security interests. A 2006 report from the Government Accountability Office, for example, criticized both the State Department and the Defense Department for failing to measure how the funding actually contributes to U.S. goals. 4) You should be skeptical of all their solvency claims. Aid money is never audited, so there is no guarantee it is being used properly. REGNERY, 12 [Alfred, former Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Land and Natural Resources Division for US Justice Department; “The Scandal That Is Foreign Aid,” 10/03, www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2012/10/03/The-Scandal-That-Is-Foreign-Aid] The US Agency for International Development (USAID), the State Department entity that administers foreign aid, has admitted that it really has no idea how much US taxpayers’ money is used for its intended purpose and how much lines the pockets of corrupt politicians or winds up in Swiss banks. According to USAID’s Inspector General, the agency failed, in 2009, to conduct mandatory annual audits of about $500 million in funds transferred to 52 foreign countries because “it was unable to produce an inventory of all organizations it gives money to.” People familiar with the way USAID works believe the Inspector General’s comment is vastly understated. 2NC Extensions: A/t – #6 “Evidence Isn’t Causal” 2311) We will win a causal link: Aid creates powerful domestic interest groups that require more and more assistance while pushing local governments further and further from U.S. control. LEVIN, 00 [Yuval, fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center; “American Aid to the Middle East: A Tragedy of Good Intentions,”http://www.israeleconomy.org/strat11/strategic11.pdf] U.S. aid to Egypt demonstrates the inadequacy of one of the central assumptions of American aid policy: that aid allows a meaningful measure of control over the behavior of potentially unfriendly regimes. In fact, as we shall see, aid and the politics surrounding it seem to make the U.S. less capable of dealing with such states, not more so. This is both because the amounts of money involved inevitably create interest groups that make their living off the continuation of the aid, and because if the aid were to be stopped the entire structure of American expectations would collapse – along with the reputations of the policymakers. And so, the U.S. is stuck financing regimes that squarely oppose its strategic interests, all the while maintaining that supporting them is an essential American strategic concern. Directory: wp-content -> uploads -> 2011 2011 -> Voices of the Old Sea Norman Lewis 2011 -> Malevil Robert Merle 2011 -> The Elephant Keeper’s Children Peter Hoeg 2011 -> Jv packet •Mars Colonization Affirmative •Mars Colonization Negative 2011 -> Registration Form (Rev. 8-86) omb no. 1024-0018 2011 -> All America Looks Up to Virginia;” Virginia and the Declaration of Independence 2011 -> Rao bulletin 2011 -> Christopher Columbus was born between 25 August and 31 October 1451 in 2011 -> The Battle of Frenchtown (1855), Washington Territory: the Political and Demographic Context rev 9/4/11 2011 -> Seti aff •seti neg •Asteroids Aff Download 3.16 Mb. Share with your friends:
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