> Restricted grants are when you give money to a nonprofit to do what you want, rather than what they want. Spot on. The picture is often worse than the one y

> Restricted grants are when you give money to a nonprofit to do what you want, rather than what they want. Spot on. The picture is often worse than the one you have painted -- Hey there, here's a few million dollars to help your country tackle AIDS. BTW, you can only spend it on drugs manufactured by US pharma. At that stage its creative accounting to route tax money to your base of choice, with PR for free. Works the same for defense related grants.