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I duplicated your comment, making an opposite point. There's also http://www.pepfar.gov, one of Bush's (43) positive legacies. Unfortunately, I'm fairly certain that the average American does not think or care much about USAID or PEPFAR.

You could say though that USAID is not Americans, per se, but the American government caring about African people, and anyway it could also be raised that in relative terms not that much goes to foreign aid, and also that not all of it is employed solely for humanitarian reasons.

Btw, I appreciated your Wiki link above.

> You could say though that USAID is not Americans, per se, but the American government caring about African people,

I agree, and I thought of that before posting it, but the reality is, I assume I'm sending aid to Africa already. I imagine most American's assume that is the case as well. We may not know about USAID specifically, but we assume we are sending it. So, it's not something we need to get worked up over.

Effectively, it's taken care of.

Yes, but it's about sentiment in journalism and "facebook masses", and not only in America...