Promises of aid to Africa must be kept in 2006 or millions of people will die needlessly
How about promises to pressure for regime changes, or promises to stop raping little African girls being kept? Did we forget to mention those???
To: libertarianPA
Critics have said that aid to Africa has been largely wasted through widespread corruption and thatthere is no reason to believe new aid would not also be misused
I think this originally appeared in the pages of DUH! Magazine.
To: libertarianPA
3 posted on
01/09/2006 12:33:01 PM PST by
Doogle
(USAF...8thAF...4077th TFW...408th MMS...Ubon Thailand..."69"..Night Line Delivery,AMMO)
To: libertarianPA
The best thing we can do for Africa is introduce democracy and capitalism.
4 posted on
01/09/2006 12:33:23 PM PST by
Brilliant
To: libertarianPA
It seems like the only thing that can save Africa is a form of Neo-colonialism whereby western powers take over and create new coutries and gov't from scratch.
I don't know. But whatever they're doing is not working at all.
5 posted on
01/09/2006 12:34:17 PM PST by
Bogey78O
(<thinking of new tagline>)
To: libertarianPA
Life can be a bitch....when one allows themselves to be ruled by racist thugs.
If it were up to me ----- a LOT of Africans will die.
One of the surest signs of insanity -- is to repeat an action and expect a different result....
Semper Fi
6 posted on
01/09/2006 12:34:33 PM PST by
river rat
(You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
To: libertarianPA
"Significant, targeted investments (aimed) at raising food production in Africa, at addressing urgent health needs, at making investments in water management would allow an escape from what is now a seemingly endless cycle of disaster."
I notice there's no mention of the fact that Mugabe has destroyed one of the breadbaskets of Africa. Why would the UN believe the rest of the world should come to Africa's aid without demanding accountability from it's own governments?
7 posted on
01/09/2006 12:34:47 PM PST by
saganite
(The poster formerly known as Arkie 2)
To: libertarianPA
Promises of aid to Africa must be kept in 2006 or millions of people will die needlessly Five or six two-bit thugs need to be shot in the head in 2006, or millions of people will die needlessly.
8 posted on
01/09/2006 12:35:41 PM PST by
Mr. Jeeves
("When the government is invasive, the people are wanting." -- Tao Te Ching)
To: libertarianPA
"Significant, targeted investments (aimed) at raising food production in Africa, at addressing urgent health needs, at making investments in water management would allow an escape from what is now a seemingly endless cycle of disaster."
Correction: Would allow a different set of ruthless dictators to come to power. They would then have the clout to starve and persecute a different people group.
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.
9 posted on
01/09/2006 12:35:46 PM PST by
kublia khan
(Absolute war brings total victory)
To: libertarianPA
Jeffrey Sachs, who is director of the U.N. Millennium Project and special adviser to Secretary-General Kofi Annan, called 2005 the year of promises,
***PROMISES!?!? Years of corruption!
after the leaders of the world's wealthiest countries promised to double aid to Africa. "2006 has to be the year of real action on the ground," Sachs, an economist who teaches at Harvard University,...
***REAL ACTION?!?!? Surreal crap! A pox on Annan and his U N house.
10 posted on
01/09/2006 12:39:12 PM PST by
purpleland
(Elegy 9/11/01 Vigilance and Valor! Socialism is the Opiate of Academia)
To: libertarianPA
The best thing we can do for Africa is to quit giving them aid. There's enough natural resources in Africa that *we* should all be dependent on *them*, not the other way around.
11 posted on
01/09/2006 12:39:37 PM PST by
Terabitten
(If you've abused the public trust, the public should never trust you again. Throw the bums out!)
To: libertarianPA
"......"The United States, for all of Africa, is spending something like $4 billion this year" This year! and last year, and the years before - we've been pouring money into the black hole of Africa.
Far too much.......in today's reality....
Feeding corruption and folks that want us dead.
Let the oil rich Muslims support their brothers....neighbors and former slave dealing partners.
Semper Fi
12 posted on
01/09/2006 12:39:54 PM PST by
river rat
(You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
To: libertarianPA
Having one of the major continents on the face of the earth and all its natural resources: vast mineral deposits, seacoasts, petroleum and agricultural lands at the disposal of the populations without colonial interference whatsoever, one wonders why this continent needs any aid at all from other continents, having far less natural wealth and sustinence at the disposal of their populations?
To: libertarianPA
I'd love someone to point out just one Black-American Businessperson or Black-American Athlete that has invested anything but lip-service in Africa!
To: libertarianPA
Again ? This is the 60th year in a row of this U.N. "dire" warnings on Africa.
16 posted on
01/09/2006 12:49:00 PM PST by
stylin19a
(you can leed Freepers to spelchek, but you can't make 'em use it.)
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!)
To: libertarianPA
They're gonna miss all the white farmers they massacred soon.
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.
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)
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!
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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