Misryan Army is terribly equiped and planning, training is getting shoddy. The army needs to be updated, but the Air Force is excelent.

Misryan government is trying to move slowly from a socailist republic to a capitalist democracy with a socalist bend. I don't know if that would work. Socailism might be a better government with so much poverty and population growth in my opinion. Misryan government is trying to modernize infastructure to keep certain government owned industries government owned instead of wholesale selling these monopolies out to the private highest bidder. Tough work ahead of them.

At least Misr doesn't have the problem of moving 45% of their population into retirement with so little of a young workforce to support them in retirement. The opposite affect is in Misr now and that might be the largest bonus. Plus this younger generation is better educated, let alone increasing the graduation grade from 10th to 12th is a huge renovation. Increasing literacy is the main goal right now, 48% isn't enough to attract foriegn investment.

Several of my husband's cousins have gone back to a liberal arts high school instead of a gymnasium trade school and will probably do a university instead because of the shift. In part I think it was a requirement from the IMF for refinancing of their loans.

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Originally posted by Troubles101:
Egypt was much better away of US and its aid. I don't know why the arab countries still like to stick very close to the USA and rely much on it when many countries noe including Israel are preparing for the-after-USA period. we will sink down more when USA sink more

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Actually I agree with you. The aid and investment categorically helps the top 5% more often than the lowest 40% and not just in the Mid-East, the world over.

It irritates me that developing countries signed up for these loans decades ago and because these loans were originally underwritten by private non-NGO agencies these loans are written to keep developing countries in debt and continue economic colonialism.

Just keep your colonial investments intact and you will always have economic and political control over your past slaves. And USA just goes along with it, like a b!tch.

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Originally posted by Horemheb:
ausar...you would have to first ask what the foreign aid is intended for. Most aid is ear marked for a particular purpose. It may well be that much of it is military, if that is the case then it is not intended to go to the people you mentioned.

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Your right it was almost entirely intended for the military, but over time the aid shifted to other parts of the budget.

In another time the military used to grow produce and manage huge agricultural farms to feed its own troops and then with what was left over give to the needy. This defense minister was a victim to musical chairs in the late 1980's (I think) and the agricultural practice was disbanded with the new defense minister. My husband remembers it clearly, he thinks thats how his uncle was promoted to general, from a land owning family and all.

But hell who are we to tell Misryans how to spend the aid money. Misryan government isn't known for waste, just corruption.