I think we owe it to them to give them the resources that they need so that we don't ask, for example, 1,000 AID Foreign Service officers to cover the whole world at a time when some regions, like Iraq and Afghanistan, have enormous demands.
Lew advocates for better resources for Foreign Service officers to meet global demands.
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So the only pathway to a stable future for Puerto Rico has to involve them restructuring their debt.
We can't just cut the things that we need to grow in order to reduce the deficit more in the short run.
I totally agree with you, we should be able to put more resources into working on identifying the sources of the tax gap.
I think right now, when you look at what our debt is, our deficit, annual deficit, is essentially interest on the debt.