ffmcobalt: You, sir, are a racist twit whose talking out of his ass. Please don't crap on this thread any further, until you have at least some understanding of the issues.
Unlike Sub-Saharan Africa, the majority of poor people in India do in fact get enough food to eat. So I don't understand where all this misguided "FEED THE PEOPLE, MAN" bullsh|t is coming from.
IIRC, back in the 1960's, there were riots day and night in American cities. Entire portions of Los Angeles and Detroit burned to the ground. 10% of the population couldn't vote because of their skin color. There was a war in Vietnam. There were still poor people in the U.S. back then, as there are now. Not everyone got enough food to eat. Not everyone who wanted to go to school or college was able to.
Yet in spite of all that, the U.S. still spent billions of dollars to send a man to the moon. All that money was spent at the expense of social spending.
And you know what? It was money well spent. There are always going to be social problems, and wealth redistribution has never solved them. The only solution to social problems is to create economic opportunities for the people.
$85million on this program can lead to billions or more in FDI. How is that not money well spent?