Whose Children Should Take Priority?
Monday, March 3rd, 2008The UN Children’s Fund and UNICEF got good press about 9.7 million children who will die before their 5th birthday. The US spends billions addressing the cause where corruption prevents an effective outcome. The US for a while in the 80’s and 90’s demanded accountability. Now, because of the need to have other governments’ political capital for support, US overseas initiatives accountability is silent as pay back. Prioritizing of money to be used for political capital or preventing the deaths of Americans requires government to set for the US a per capita spending for its health care goals and saving children in the US. What type of death is more worthy to require funding?
