Quote of the Day

Mary Anastasia O'Grady, writing for The Wall Street Journal, concerning aid to Latin America:

This is a good time to repeat what is already manifest: Latin America remains poor and backward not despite multilateral "assistance" but, in a large part, because of it.

The DrsC saw this on Guam, where a century of hand-outs from the U.S. Navy took a fine, self-sufficient group of people, the Chamorros, and made welfare drones of most of them.