“Did those funds have any lasting good effect for the people there?”
Have the trillions in foreign aid to Africa done any good? All it’s done is double the population of poor, uneducated, malnourished people.
Have the trillions we spent in the USA to eradicate poverty done any good? All it’s done is build a huge, permanent, aggrieved victim underclass out to destroy us.
Thank you. The old adage seems to remain true; when you subsidize something, you tend to get more, not less of it.