Posted on 02/01/2014 4:41:40 PM PST by servo1969
Brutal, honest, and true. If I post this on Facebook for my Liberal friends to see, they’d probably have an aneurysm trying to respond that we haven’t thrown enough money at it yet, or some such nonsense. A few might try to respond intelligently, but all I’d have to do is say that Africa is still a bad place to be right now.
I had read an extraordinary study, conducted at least 10 years ago, on the “sweat shops” in east Asian countries.
Making less than a dollar a day, which was a dollar more than before, these folks learned a skill. They figured out better ways to manufacture their products that led to advancements both individually and for the whole.
Cubans know how to keep their 57’ Chevy’s running out of necessity.
Human ingenuity trumps central planning every time.
Exactly true. Is the NAACP going to disband now that a self proclaimed black man has achieved the highest elected office in the nation? Is Moveon.org ever going to move on? Nope.
And yet, the way things are going, you may see African [Christian] missionaries to the US within twenty years.
How can you beat it? Catholic volunteers donating time, effort, money and goods FOR THE LOVE OF GOD. That kind of love and loyalty CANNOT be bought.
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Here's a news clip with lots of curse words but I think it's worth a look...people are getting sick of things.
Melinda Brown Duncan EXPLODES To News Reporter. "I'll Show You How To Run The City Of Detroit"
When you hand out “free” food in a stricken area, you put the local food producers out of business.
The best solution, of course, is buy the food from the local producers before shipping in more (if necessary). Or to provide the locals with the means of obtaining their own food.
But that doesn’t actually get them the power they’re looking for...
Throwing MONEY into cesspools like Africa does more harm than good, because the corruptocrats simply steal it and buy weapons which they turn around and suppress their citizens further.
Look at the USA for Africa campaigns in the 80s.
Plenty of good intentions, but the reason for the starvation of say the Somalis was because the thug warlords forced them into the desert as a political move.
I bet that most of the $ went to the SOBs who CAUSED the problem in the first place. Making the starving people even worse off, because we were giving the tormenters more assets to hurt more people.
I can get behind doing tangible things like vaccines and digging wells so that villagers can have clean water.
And NGOs like World Vision do great work in that they give "loans" to people in 3rd world nations so that they can set up businesses themselves. But the expectation is that it isn't "free" money. It has to be paid back.
So it encourages entrepreneurism and the notion of self-reliance.
I used to think people needed to fix the problems of their own countries. But now look at us. We have been hobbled by government policies and have not been able to overturn them. We were successful because America rewarded ingenuity, hard work, and everyone working at self-reliance. We will fail and become another third world country because that is now being punished.
Ellen Ripley could fix it.
Recently UNICEF has been running very long commercials asking for donations to help starving children. Quite apart from the arguments made in this article, an agency connected to the UN is about the last one I would trust.
“I say we nuke it from orbit, it’s the only way to be sure”
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yup.. you nailed it.
if you want to provide ‘aid’ in a long term sense, supporting the local ability to provide that aid is key.
of course, this is well known... and avoided as these situations of misery are used to gain money and power by ‘providing the solution’... but *never* solving it
I'm not making a larger point here. I'm just musing on the fact that our little Diocese, one of the smallest in the USA, still has the money to attract clergy from poor countries which probably need them far more.
I agree with the whole premise of this article, and have witnessed it first hand in third world countries, but I think the author needs to get into exact detail regarding the follwoing paragragh:
“Instead they wear suits, coordinate with community organizers and clamor for more money for broken inner city neighborhoods so they can siphon it off”
To be effective, we need to be able to explain “how” they “siphon” it off. This is the biggest problem with hyperbole, such as “those politicians just passed law “x” so they could “line their pockets”.
Specifics count. Otherwise, it’s just another accusation out of 10,000 accustations, some without merit, so no punishment ever evolves.
Bttt.
if you really want to help someone, help someone you already know and have a relationship with, that trusts you, and that you k now has a good head on their shoulders, they just need a break from someone at the right time.
none of us are tasked to save the whole world. but we can make a difference to those who are doing well, and maybe need someone to bet on them.
Save the world? Why would I want to do that? They hate us.
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