Semi-Daily Journal Archive

The Blogspot archive of the weblog of J. Bradford DeLong, Professor of Economics and Chair of the PEIS major at U.C. Berkeley, a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and former Deputy Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treasury.

Saturday, May 13, 2006

Aid to Afghanistan

I think I have this story right. At a middle school fundraiser for Afghanistan:

"The first thing we're raising money for is for the pump to bring water to the school. And the next thing is more money for the teachers--the teachers have to buy the gasoline to keep the pump running. And after that, we'll need to buy more machine guns for the security guards--because girls go to the school, it's a target..."

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