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Burundi
Toby's voice cracks the air with Burundi's $90 price tag—a ravaged market where AIDS devours lives on subsistence wages, clinics rationing miracles amid dust and despair. Hallway fury ignites as this distant sovereign state becomes moral munitions: families' hollow pleas compressed into a statistic that shatters C.J.'s defenses, forcing the West Wing to confront global inequity's bleeding edge.
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S4E12
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Guns Not Butter
Cloakroom Count: One Vote Short
Burundi is invoked by Jane as the public-facing example fueling negative polling—used to make abstract foreign aid consequences concrete to voters and to explain why constituencies resent distant spending.
Atmosphere
Mentioned as the distant, morally charged recipient of aid that voters perceive as remote and politically exploitable.
Functional Role
Rhetorical example that frames why the poll numbers move public opinion against foreign aid.
Symbolic Significance
Symbolizes the human object of policy debate whose distance from voters enables political scapegoating.
Referenced as a distant foreign beneficiary to contrast with domestic schools
Used to highlight taxation vs. spending debates in everyday voter terms
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