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Future historians will also note what today's pundits ignore: total US government development aid to Africa quadrupled from $1.3 billion in 2001 to more than $5 billion in 2008. What's more, the Bush administration doubled foreign aid worldwide over the past eight years. You have to go back to the Truman years to match that.
All of which was borrowed money. All of which will have to be paid back or inflated away. All of which adds to the total debt load of the country.
Sounds like a certain nation is desperately addicted to spending.