time for someone other than Amos...


"Congress won't even act on a common-sense proposal from the Bush administration that food aid be reformed. If the United States bought some of the food that it donates from other countries, it could get aid to the needy faster and more cheaply. But that would upset American farmers and shipping interests, as a new Council on Foreign Relations paper emphasizes. The president's proposal has few takers on the Hill. "

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/18/AR2008051801917.html