Africa and Aid money
Dean
I mentioned this article in the below article on HIV and Africa, but I wanted to link it again because it's truly must-reading: Kenyan economist says, "For God's Sake, Please Stop the Aid!
Read the whole thing.
(Via Andrea.)
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Teaching a man to fish is all well and good, but when there are thugs with big clubs standing behind the man, ready to take his catch and crack his skull, you're just encouraging the thugs.
Disband the UN. Create the United Democracies. Make its primary purpose spreading and safekeeping democracy (by force of arms, not baby-blue helmets). Kill all dictators, theocrats, and warlords. Feed those left starving, build houses for those left homeless, institue representative governments and get out once they're self-sufficient and peaceful. A Marshall plan for the world.
It's not going to happen, though. The elitist circle jerk led by the Bob Geldofs and Bonos will continue unabated, and with luck, in a century or so, a small number of African countries might manage to get on their feet in spite of this. Yet again, where would aging rock stars get free promotion if not for the starving masses of Africa?
We've got an agreement. Let's do it.
It's not that I'm against trying, but I believe we would find that relatively few politicians would risk their necks on this. Either in the US or in Canada or most of Europe.
These countries have growing populations of people who have no health services, no skills with which they can get jobs in order to support themselves and their families, no jobs even for those who have the skills, and, essentially, no future at all.
If left to themselves, the African societies will be decimated by starvation, mass death from AIDS and other epicemics, continual inter-tribal wars, and no future in the world except as locations from which the advanced societies will exploit their resources like so many cash crops. All to the accompaniment of energetic dancers jumping up and down in the dust in colorful costumes keeping time to chanted music.
But the fact is, nobody is going to do anything for any of them. And all the talk in all the international conferences will constitute just more of the same bull-shit we and the Africans hear each year whenever the international news media lashes the liberals into their annual frenzy over Africa and its endless problems.
Arnold Harris
Mount Horeb WI
"Teaching a man to fish is all well and good, but when there are thugs with big clubs standing behind the man, ready to take his catch and crack his skull, you're just encouraging the thugs."
Then we, America, must smash the thug's skull with our bigger club.