Posted on 06/17/2005 10:33:08 AM PDT by ejdrapes
Couldn't we buy pretty much all of Africa for $16 billion?
Do we want it for $16.00?
Let's ask Oprah
I guess Wolfowitz is trying to get back into the good graces of teh new world order crowd at his new job.
africa is loaded with minerals and natural resources - they need money, we need to strip mine and suck all the oil out of their continent - let's make a deal.
We have paid to much into africa already. Since 190 over 189 BILLION.
What has changed.
Good idea...besides she's a Zulu. Just ask her!
Another idea: If we close Gitmo, let's get the detainees gigs as gofers for Oprah. I reckon THAT would really be torture! "Oh, Ahmed, have you picked up that pantyhose yet? Be a sweetheart and do it right away!"
Yeah, that would hurt.
"Do we want it for $16.00?"
Close jaykay, but a slight error......more like $00.16
I think it's high time someone in the administration wakes up and quits taking advice from Wolfonut. If the Bush administration wants to appear in any way conservative (which would be a very long shot) they should make an announcement that they appreciate what Paulie has to say but no. And then follow through with it.
Enough's enough already.
Just because they "need," and we "have," doesn't mean we "owe." It's their own culture that holds them back.
Africa is blessed with incredible natural resources -- gold, diamonds, oil, etc. Why can't this be redistributed among the African nations before they come to us for more handouts?
No aid without ACCOUNTABILITY.
Too much has been wasted on fraud and corruption.
400 billion in Western aid (most from the USA) since 1970. It's throwing money into a sinkhole - the pockets of the kleptocrats running things. Wolfowitz is simply returning to his leftist roots.
It's remarkable how "compassionate" all of these "conservatives" can be with all of the money grabbed from other folks - taxpayers.
So am I...provided by the European Union and China. ;)
Credit Suisse in Zurich will welcome the additional $24.9 billion in aid for "Africa".
If all western countries withdrew from Africa and waited ten years, there wouldn't be anyone left alive and we could do whatever we wanted with the place.
Giving aid ensures that nothing will ever get better there.
This is the same deal as the American welfare system.
We are harming these people by providing them with free handouts. We are crippling them by keeping them in a constant state of dependence.
Weeeeeeee're RIIIIIIIIICHHHH!!!!!!! Yiiiiiipiiieee!!!!!
Who wants money? Got it rightchere!
Why don't I just go flush my share down the toilet?
If Africans can't solve Africa's problems, how can they keep things going in the long term anyway?
Whatever happened to the Golden Rule? He who has the Gold Rules? Why are we supposed to send all this money with no strings attached? Why do we have to just send Abbas, or Mugabe, or Mandela or whatever thug it happens to be at the moment a check to do with as they will? I am so sick of paying off the world. I want something back.
Wolfowitz of all people must know better.
Poverty is not caused by a lack of money. You eliminate poverty by creating wealth. You set the stage for wealth creation by establishing clear, predictable laws, and by protecting the rights of individuals.
If we want to build a prosperous Africa, we have to first build a just Africa, and that means overthrowing at least a couple of the more egregious examples of brutality presently governing there.
If you're not prepared to do what it takes to save Africa quickly, then the alternative is to build lots of clinics, refugee camps, and orphanages, to patch people up after they've been attacked by one mob or other, to feed them after they've been driven off their land by one mob or other, and to care for their children after the parents have been slaughtered by one mob or other.
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