Wealthy nations pressured to save Africans (Davos - World Economic Forum)

Bakersfield Californian ^ | 1/27/05 | Edith M. Lederer - AP

[Darkwolf377]

Well, the US is supposed to stop sticking our noses in other countries's affairs, so good luck <EU, drop us a postcard!

[NormsRevenge]

"Let's get real," Clinton said. "The president just asked for $80 billion for the Iraq war for a year. For a pittance of that we could double America's international assistance in all these areas. This is cheap."

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2 terms squandered in the White House and NOW he wants to save the world.

[mewzilla]

So not only did Bubba sit there while our nation was reviled, he actually piled on.....

Oh, I'd better not print what I'm thinking...

[Spok]

In the last half of the last century, wars were fought to get the wealthy countries OUT of Africa.

[NoControllingLegalAuthority]

Well, Bubba, you're rich now. Start buying medicine and sending it overseas. You first.

[bikepacker67]

Can someone explain to me why a continent blessed with more natural resources then any other on planet earth, can continue to be such a basket case?

[mewzilla]

Someone should ask Hilliary if she seconds everything Bubba said...

[skip_intro]

Gates pledged $750 million. I must have missed it in the article, so how much are Bono and Bubba coughing up?

[wolfpat]

If you want to help them, build factories. Give them jobs. But if we do that, the lefties will say we're exploiting them. I guess starvation is better than exploitation in their eyes.

[Andyman]

. . . want to go save 4 million lives?" Clinton asked.

I don't know Bill, what did you give to save 800,000 lives in Rwanda? NOTHING!

[gaspar]

If the road to hell is paved by good intentions, with regard to Africa it is papered by US dollars. Tens of billions have been spent on Africa since the vast majority of nations achieved independence in the early 1960s. For the most part it has been money down a rat hole. The US Agency for International Development is hard-pressed to point to a single major success in any African country. Yet despite the massive corruption, the socialist mindset, numbskulls like Clinton, Bono and Bill Gates insist that just a few more billions are needed. Hogwash!

[Sam Cree]

I think money could help, but only briefly, if things don't change, you'd have to keep pouring it in forever. Africa should by be a wealthy continent in its own right, not needing welfare from white countries. Lots of resources of all kinds there. Being squandered by violence, discord and totalitarian governments.

[mewzilla]

Well, what ticks me off MORE is that Bubba sat there while all sorts of factual excrement was being peddled and never corrected the record. And apparently he helped shovel. Oh, am I TICKED.

[Pan_Yans Wife]

"I think we can be the generation that ends extreme poverty, I really do, and I think I will spend the rest of my life pledged to that commitment," Bono said.

Brilliant! Is he going to fund it himself? Does he understand famine and economics? Does he wonder why Zimbabwe is no longer the bread basket of Africa?

[Echo Talon]

"You want to go save 4 million lives?" Clinton asked. "Give them the medicine. It's not rocket science, and it's so cheap compared to everything else all these rich countries do."

Yea, so then they can live longer and kill millions more by infecting the rest of the continent...

[mewzilla]

If it's such a hot idea why didn't Bubba do it? Heck, why didn't he intervene in Rwanda?

[SF Republican]

Can someone explain to me why a continent blessed with more natural resources then any other on planet earth, can continue to be such a basket case? Cecile Rhodes died

[scouse]

the seven wealthiest nations and Russia - the G8 - will take action to end poverty in Africa.

I have a better idea: Britain, France, Spain, Belgium, Italy, Germany, Holland, Portugal and the rest of the European nations who had colonies on that continent should pay reparations. This would soon help to end poverty.

[B.Bumbleberry]

. . . poverty can be cut in half by 2015 and eliminated by 2025 if the world's richest countries, including the United States, Japan and Germany, more than double aid to the poorest countries.

LOL. The richest countries still haven't eliminated their own poverty. And I suppose we use the UN to distribute this aid. LOL again.