Recently, while researching a column that touched on foreign aid, I discovered that Jimmy Carter had once said that Americans “don’t really care about what happens” to the poor of other lands. In fact, when you add private contributions to government assistance, our generosity to them is amazing.
Carter, in short, was being true to his character in the remark — smug, irretrievably condemnatory of the land of his birth, a comfort to those who join in castigating us and fundamentally amiss about a large issue.
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