John Lennon Quotes
Where do people get off saying the Beatles should give $200,000,000 to South America? You know, America has poured billions into places like that. It doesn't mean a damn thing. After they've eaten that meal, then what? It lasts for only a day. After the $200,000,000 is gone, then what? It goes round and round in circles. You can pour money in forever. After Peru, then Harlem, then Britain. There is no one concert. We would have to dedicate the rest of our lives to one world concert tour, and I'm not ready for it. Not in this lifetime, anyway.
Sheff, David. All We Are Saying: The Last Major Interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono. St. Martin's Griffin, 2000.
The action referred to the President’s Executive Order Banning U. S. funds going to any organization which distributes information about abortion even if they pay for it with their own funds. Such an action in the United States would have been unconstitutional but foreigners are not entitled to Constitutional protection unless they are in the United States.
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) had proposed International Development Goal Benchmarks for donor organizations which was then officially endorsed by the World Bank, the IMF and the UN. But many people thought that many of these “benchmarks” were not only invalid but exacerbated some of the problems that they were trying to fix—especially in a developing country where structural factors inhibited class mobility and the focus was on large businesses and not small and “mom & pop” enterprises that poor could aspire to and benefit from.
In many cases the American contractors hire locals in the recipient country and so a large part of the contractor’s funds actually go to the country. One virtue of this is that in many countries where the money is given to government or a local organization, there is a great deal of corruption and favoritism. Clinton is right that there is an additional cost where the American contractor takes a profit and an overhead, but very often this “waste” is far less than the waste produced by the recipient government itself or a local organization. The worst of both worlds exists when the American contractor succumbs to local pressures and government “suggestions” and does not buy from the low bidder or gives jobs to people who are not as competent as others or often not competent at all.
John Winston Ono Lennon was an English singer, songwriter, musician and peace activist who achieved worldwide fame as the founder, co-lead vocalist, and rhythm guitarist of the Beatles. His songwriting partnership with Paul McCartney remains the most successful in history. In 1969, he started the Plastic Ono Band with his second wife, Yoko Ono. After the Beatles disbanded in 1970, Lennon continued his career as a solo artist and as Ono's collaborator.
