Jimmy Carter: "in rich countries like ours, we really don't give a damn" about aid to poor nations

Reuters (AlertNet) ^ | 4/15/2005 | Paul Simao

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Yes. And yes.

You have to content yourself with yelling "Shut up you traitorous moron!" like the rest of us.

[Lizavetta]

In a speech to a human rights conference in Atlanta, Carter said increasing financial assistance was critical to battling malaria,

A big honking dose of DDT would take care of the malaria problem in Africa, just as it took care of the malaria problem down in the Louisiana/Mississippi area decades ago. But Carter doesn't want an actual solution.....he just wants more money to those who would steal it, and he also wants a stick to keep beating America with. What a putz.

[Ragnorak]

Typical lib. Only money that the government gives matters. What about the actual per capita giving, Jimbo? That would mean individual Americans choosing to give their own money for causes they personally deem worthy.

[WinOne4TheGipper]

We have not budged so far

Good! Next year there should be a goose egg next to the item listed "foreign aid" in our budget, because it's not the govs. responsibility.

[lepton]

In a speech to a human rights conference in Atlanta, Carter said increasing financial assistance was critical to battling malaria, AIDS and other common diseases that disproportionately affect the poorest parts of the world.

Or for many fewer dollars, we could just relegalize DDT, CFCs, and a few other cause celebre's of Carter's allies. To go further, we could outlaw socialist governments, which ensure poverty among their nation's masses and a tremendous Tragedy of the Commons, resulting in many diseases having a much freer reign.

[Czar]

It's always refreshing to hear from probably the least effective but dumbest president of modern times.

What an effin' loser.

[dfwgator]

No Jimmy, the problem is the leaders of the poor nations don't give a damn about their own people. They take the foreign aid and build huge palaces for themselves.

[backhoe]

I am sorry to say this disgraceful man was once my Governor- mercifully, he only lasted one term. The old joke around here used be, "Wee Jimmy- why, he's like a real Governor, only smaller..."

Unfortunately, his term as President was no laughing matter- 23% interest rates, the Hostage crisis, Cuban proxies all over Africa and Central America, gasahol... and probably a host more of things I have mercifully put out of mind.

[IllumiNaughtyByNature]

Has anybody compared the amount of aid given to the Tsunami victims from the Good Ol' US of A vs. the amount received after the 9-11 attack on the USA? WHAT? No one sent us any financial aid? Hmmph! What a friggin surprise!

/rant

[Billthedrill]

You betcha, Jimmuh. Now ask the Indonesians why the Japanese and the Aussies and the Americans didn't come running to help when the tsunami hit.

Oh, they did? Who'da thunk it?

Back in your box you drooling idiot peanut farmer!

[dfwgator]

Unfortunately, his term as President was no laughing matter- 23% interest rates, the Hostage crisis, Cuban proxies all over Africa and Central America, gasahol... and probably a host more of things I have mercifully put out of mind.

The only good thing about Carter, is that because of him, we got Ronald Reagan.

[Molly Pitcher]

Message to Mr. Carter: Shut up!

[goodnesswins]

Hey, Jimmy.....do you know about FOOD FOR OIL? That's FOREIGN AID.....it goes through some tyrants bank accounts and he steals what he can, starves and murders his people, and calls people like you his "friends." Or, how about Castro, Jimmy.....huummmmmmm.......??????

[dfwgator]

Carter was as much a peanut farmer, as Algore was a tobacco farmer.

[1066AD]

I read his "nuclear education" was courses taken by any naval officer posted to a boomer, in other words the "nuclear physicist" stuff was just pre-election hype for him.

[Euro-American Scum]

Is Carter suffering from terminal Alzheimer's? Seriously, where does he come up with this crap?

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

"in rich countries like ours, we really don't give a damn" about aid to poor nations

Sure thing, freakazoid, that's why America is the country that feeds the world and gives more medical care and supplies than any other.

[aculeus]

"We really don't give a damn."

Shut up, you pompous boring body part.

[SoCalPol]

Ooooh, Jimmah said a bad word