How money is spent interests me a great deal in today's world. That "technical assistants" receive so much of the aid on certain projects does not surprise me, but it still shocks me. Aid and relief should, to my mind, be a way to redistribute wealth, but it seems that if often isn't. Is this all of a piece with the privatization of public projects that have been the hallmark of the Bush regime in the US and are creeping up in other developed countries as well? It is known that US "aid" in recent years has been very self serving, destined to help the US more than the people in countries to which it might be destined. Or, look at the "aid" for victims of Katrina? Fortunes were dispensed, but little of it has gone to restoring New Orleans and helping the people there who were in most need.

As a person of good will, how can I become effective in redistributing wealth effectively?