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Directly to helping small farmers grow more of their own food and you want to see more aid used to support the anti-corruption efforts. john: but what are the odds that that will happen? that the aids support the corrupt dictators as much as half the food aid center at the molly is diverted to corrupt ccntractors, is like militants, local un staff. >> somalia is a difficult environment. john: i will go on. zimbabwean authorities confiscated truck filled with american food aid for school kids and...

It is the reality that we need government in there, too. >> food starches a couple billionaires could fund the whole food stamp program by itself. a private charity would be better at saying who needs the food health and who is scamming the system. >> if you know a billionaire who would want to pay the entire system we would welcome about a. that. >> they dont step in because the government is there. they say government does that. >> i think the reality is in real life all of these private effor...

The world is warren buffet. is he cheap? hes one of many billionaires who until recently, gave very little to charity. he used his money to try to make more money. he said hed give it away when he died. his fellow billionaire, ted turner, told me, buffet was being cheap! >> he should give some away now. >> turner had just made a big splash by giving a billion dollars to the u.n. and now he said he wanted to shame other rich people into giving more. >> what he said is patently stupid. >> that was...

Farmers grow more of their own food. and we want to see more aid used to support anticorruption efforts and good governance efforts in a lot of these countries. >> what are the odds that that will happen, that the aid supports the corrupt dictators? the "new york times" says as much as half the food aid sent to somalia is diverted to corrupt contractors, islamic militants and local u.n. staff. >> well, somalia is a really difficult environment. >> zimbabwe, handed out food aid to supporters of t...

>> i understand that. you do some great work. but why do you call for it at all? >> there is a lot of misconceptions about u.s. aid. one of the biggest misconceptions is that most u.s. assistance actually goes to government. in fact, thats not true. most u.s. assistance goes to u.s.-based charities, ngos and contractors. >> and the u.n., which sometimes -- >> there is a portion that goes to the u.n. were very clear that the u.n. is not the solution to poverty. just as aid is not the solution to ...

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Addressed by government giving out foreign aid or maybe the u.n., and the u.n. crickets the title of my book by saying yes, we government, working together can end poverty in just two years. two years! of course, 50 years ago, lyndon johnson claimed his war on poverty would end poverty in america. the u.n. will do better? ted turner gave them a billion dollars for this. individual governments have squandored nearly a trillion dollars in foreign aid trying to lift people out of poverty in africa....