[BenLurkin]

The Third World needs birth control and sterilizations. It’s the only way to defeat the cruel intergenerational cycle of poverty,

[Seruzawa]

I see. It’s ok to kill those babies, then.

[Dr. Sivana]

The Third World needs birth control and sterilizations. It’s the only way to defeat the cruel intergenerational cycle of poverty,

that has never been known to permanently remove poverty. In the case of Haiti, voodoo is a much bigger problem. The is Free Republic. Forced sterilization like they were doing years ago in India is a crime against humanity. Some things are worse than poverty.

[piasa]

Sometimes if not most of the time our “aid” to the 3rd world was done more for our benefit than theirs, and has done more harm than good.

In the case of Haiti, to kiss up to our farmers the politicians in the US bought tons of grain, rice in particular, and then dumped it on Haiti as foreign aid. All that did was cause the price of rice to collapse and that destroyed Haitian farmers, making Haiti more, not less dependent on outside aid.
Worse, we let the thugs hand out the aid, rather than insuring fair distribution. That just empowered the worst elements of their society.

A similar problem occurred in Vietnam, where US aid was a boon for US farmers but did damage to Vietnamese farmers, who couldn’t compete with the huge quantities of free grain.