Posted on 01/26/2005 10:30:20 AM PST by ejdrapes
Gee....if I had no clean water, I might just visit with my neighbors, organize a group of interested citizens and take up a collection to sink a well in a central location. Do you think that might work?
How did Americans do it? Did someone do it for us? The clean water fairy perhaps?
Nonsense.
No, not lazy, but victims of corrupt dictatorships and brutal Islamic fundamental regimes. Many are of course Islamic, you know, the religion of peace, which happens to be the cult these dictators and fundamentalist regimes belong to as well. That's how they take care of their population, it's Allah's way after all. They are supposed to be poor and suffer on earth, while Allah takes the wealth to buy arms to fight the infidel.
It's not tax that is needed to "feed the poor", it's the will to wipe out these regimes and this evil cult that breeds this poverty in the first place.
Tossing money at it, feeding these ignorant people is never going to solve the problem. We've been doing that for 100 years, all it does is make them breed more Jihadists. And lazyness as well does play a part. Whats so hard about boiling water to kill bacteria and parasites?
Ah yes.......the famed "FOR THE CHILDREN" argument. Is that the best you can do when advocating the extortion of more US dollars?
Dirty little secret: most of Africa's problems -- water, AIDS, mass starvation -- can be traced to their corrupt governments.
I blame Africa's problems on British colonialism.
Jacques, garder vos mains de mon portefeuille.
Keep going! You're sooo entertaining!
This is funny considering Chirac has generally stood for lower tax rates
How do we get clean drinking water here in the United States?"
Because you have the resources.
So are these people lazy then?
What resources do they lack?
Clean water and good soil.
You said they didn't have clean water because they lacked resources. Now you say the resource they lack is "clean water". I think we’re getting nowhere, fast.
It always raises my interest when I hear that 300 million people, or a whole continent, can’t do something unless we give it to them.
I guess we had no compassion after the tsunami either, huh?
Precisely
All you water are belong to us.
That's right. We stole it all too. We want to deprive the whole world of clean water. Mean, heartless Americans...
Why don't we just give millions of dollars of aid and volunteer labor to Africa. Oh, wait... we already do.
And if not for the poor then make it a tax for AIDS.. anything, just start a new tax !
http://sg.news.yahoo.com/050126/1/3q44a.html
The rain fell on Zimbabwe when it was Rhodesia and its soil was good. But now...
*sigh* what a humanitarian... < /sarc >
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