[kayak]

... but our program actually works.

I guess I'm just awfully ignorant and naive. If our program of food aid is working so well, please explain to me why can you find stories like this on the internet?

June 21, 2002
BEIJING, China (CNN) -- A severe shortage of food aid is forcing hungry North Koreans to scrounge for grass and seaweed, the United Nations says.

Warning of a new threat of famine in the communist country, the U.N.'s World Food Programme says hundreds of thousands of North Koreans are abandoning work and school in a desperate effort to stave off hunger.

"They're going up into the mountains in search of edible grasses. They're on the beaches collecting seaweed," WFP spokesman Gerald Bourke said in Beijing after visiting North Korea.

[Zeroisanumber]

A million bucks buys a lot of food, but not enough to fill the needs of an entire country. This is doubly true when they can't properly distribute it and graft causes at least 20% to disappear before it gets to where it has to go.

But that doesn't change the fact that that million bucks is going to buy food.