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U.N. Adviser Issues Dire Warning on Africa
Yahoo! News ^ | 1/9/06 | CHRIS TOMLINSON

Posted on 01/09/2006 12:29:21 PM PST by libertarianPA

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To: purpleland

Jeffery Sachs is a POS and a commie liar!. This Scumbag needs to be sent to Africa and away from the US.


21 posted on 01/09/2006 1:01:08 PM PST by iopscusa (El Vaquero. (SC Lowcountry Cowboy))
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To: libertarianPA
It's dire in Africa, and today must be Monday...

Tomorrow it will be: It's dire in Africa, and today must be Tuesday.

22 posted on 01/09/2006 1:02:42 PM PST by Night Hides Not (Closing in on 3000 posts, of which maybe 50 were worthwhile!)
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To: Froufrou
Because if we stop helping Africa we have to stop helping everyone else.

Why?

When you refuse entry to your home to strangers --- do you also lock out your children?
When you decide to stop feeding the bums on your doorstep - do you stop feeding your children?

Your position makes no sense at all....
Neither does sending more money to the corrupt bastards in Africa - through the corrupt hands of the U.N., or through the corrupt hands of all the NGA that are between the Africans and our money....

Resources are not limitless -- and charity begins at home - with friends, neighbors and allies....

Most of Africa fails that test, and they have failed to meet even the most minimal standards of decency and self control toward their benefactors over GENERATIONS.....

Semper Fi

23 posted on 01/09/2006 1:07:45 PM PST by river rat (You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
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To: libertarianPA



They're gonna miss all the white farmers they massacred soon.


24 posted on 01/09/2006 1:08:57 PM PST by SouthernFreebird
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To: river rat

"Most of Africa fails that test, and they have failed to meet even the most minimal standards of decency and self control toward their benefactors over GENERATIONS....."

That's because we 'gave them a fish' instead of 'teaching them how to fish.'

They fail because of ignorance. And arrogance. The UN is just the icing on the cake. They'd fail even without the UN. Because the charity isn't charitable.

Thank about that.


25 posted on 01/09/2006 1:12:11 PM PST by Froufrou
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To: libertarianPA
The UN is paying attention? Oh, they are just saying that their is a problem that can be eradicated by increasing US contributions.

Eff the UN.
26 posted on 01/09/2006 1:14:56 PM PST by gathersnomoss
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To: Froufrou

I have to disagree - we 'taught the how to fish' they just never listened.

How many times do we need to teach them?
(and why do Americans have to be the teachers?)

Think about that...


27 posted on 01/09/2006 1:24:01 PM PST by PissAndVinegar
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To: kublia khan
Most of Africa was better off under colonial rule, until your brave enough to admit it don't come around here with your hand out.

Agreed. But see, the current crop of psychpopaths and murderers get a free pass, as they are the vestiges of colonialism, don't you see? I figure that Africa may make some progress in, say, two hundred years!

28 posted on 01/09/2006 1:28:02 PM PST by Rummyfan
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To: libertarianPA

Good money after bad. The real problem is lack of recorded private property, not lack of public works projects.


29 posted on 01/09/2006 1:31:32 PM PST by RightWhale (pas de lieu, Rhone que nous)
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To: libertarianPA

Does anyone have a figure on the gazillions of dollars and aid that's been sent to Africa over the years, and has it done any good? No more for Africa!


30 posted on 01/09/2006 1:32:06 PM PST by AmericanChef
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To: brainstem223

It's because they have been brutally exploited by us greedy capitalist first-worlders for centuries! /sarc


31 posted on 01/09/2006 1:35:14 PM PST by Rummyfan
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To: kublia khan
Most of Africa was better off under colonial rule, until your brave enough to admit it don't come around here with your hand out.

I'm sure the Congolese who had their hands cut off by Belgian colonialists would appreciate the irony.

32 posted on 01/09/2006 2:32:58 PM PST by zimdog
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To: iopscusa

"Jeffery Sachs is a POS and a commie liar!. This Scumbag needs to be sent to Africa and away from the US."

All of that, and as well, Sachs is a phony humanitarian - he's an elite parasite. All the funds for so many years and no perceivable process except in corruption of the UN.


33 posted on 01/09/2006 9:40:57 PM PST by purpleland (Elegy 9/11/01 Vigilance and Valor! Socialism is the Opiate of Academia)
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To: Bogey78O

Oh boy now you've done it..... ;-)


34 posted on 01/09/2006 9:57:59 PM PST by festus (The constitution may be flawed but its a whole lot better than what we have now.)
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To: PissAndVinegar

"How many times do we need to teach them?
(and why do Americans have to be the teachers?)"

You just proved my point: "the charity isn't charitable."

Last time I looked, this was pretty much a Christian nation. Of course, if the Liberals have anything to say about it, that won't be the case in the forseeable future.

BTW, spiffy tagline. Whose side are YOU on?


35 posted on 01/10/2006 2:58:21 AM PST by Froufrou
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To: libertarianPA
Sachs argued that rich countries have themselves misspent aid money and have never lived up to their promise, made in 1970, to spend 0.7 percent of their gross national products to help poor countries.

Rot. India, China and South East Asia were dirt poor in the 60s, but they worked hard along with US help to improve themselves. Africa isn't even helping out.
36 posted on 01/10/2006 3:03:13 AM PST by Cronos (Never forget 9/11. Restore Hagia Sophia!)
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