South Africa's President Thabo Mbeki waits to address the 61st General Assembly of the United Nations at U.N. headquarters in New York, September 19, 2006. (Ray Stubblebine/Reuters)
To: NormsRevenge
Mbeki himself has been accused by foreign and domestic critics of embracing market-friendly policies at home which have enabled a few blacks to accumulate vast wealth and some to enter the middle class while millions remain stuck in squalor.
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Africa is a continent rich in resources that has been squandered and the benefits thereof stolen by a few , not all of them white or foreign, coincidentally.
2 posted on
09/19/2006 3:44:17 PM PDT by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi ......Help the "Pendleton 8' and families -- http://www.freerepublic.com/~normsrevenge/)
To: NormsRevenge
You might try inquiring how the rich and powerful got that way, Thabo.
(Hint - not by passing more UN resolutions)
3 posted on
09/19/2006 3:45:18 PM PDT by
Argus
To: NormsRevenge
Just wondering how come every time a prosperous nation is overthrown by so called reformers, within a couple of years the winners come on the world stage pleading for money?
4 posted on
09/19/2006 3:49:02 PM PDT by
rocksblues
(Liberals will stop at nothing.)
To: NormsRevenge
90+ percent of current world poverty can be laid at the feet of corrupt, incompetent governments and communist theory.
Period.
6 posted on
09/19/2006 3:49:29 PM PDT by
Semi Civil Servant
(Colorado: the original Red State.)
To: NormsRevenge
Callous rich to blame for poverty"Oh nonsense."
9 posted on
09/19/2006 3:58:15 PM PDT by
My2Cents
(A pirate's life for me.)
To: NormsRevenge
This is why foreign aid should be abolished.
How much did the U.S. and "the rich" nations contribute to Africa and other 3rd world hell-holes?
Maybe if these nations adopted capitalism, instead of failed socialism, they wouldn't be poor.
To: NormsRevenge
"These billions of poor people are increasingly becoming impatient because every year they hear us adopt declaration after declaration and yet nothing practical is done to assuage the hunger pains that keep them awake at night," he told the United Nations General Assembly.
Billions of Chinese and Indians also became impatient and decided to fix the problem themselves with education and capitalism. It's a proven solution that the nations of Africa would do well to use, instead of hoping for handouts from the West.
To: NormsRevenge
No, corrupt "leaders" like you, and the aversion to productive work is possible for poverty.
14 posted on
09/19/2006 4:08:52 PM PDT by
gafusa
To: NormsRevenge
My family is just about UP TO HERE with being told that we are
responsible for what anybody else lacks. We don't rob, steal, pilfer or pillage. If this country wasn't taking care of so many able-bodied adults that could be earning a living on their own, our taxes could be cut again and government could be a helluva lot smaller.
Now Thabo wants to saddle me with African poverty, even World poverty ... enough already!
To: NormsRevenge
Private
property
Rule
of law
no domestic
taxation
Courts to enforce
obligation of contract
The little things...
17 posted on
09/19/2006 4:26:43 PM PDT by
dasboot
To: NormsRevenge
These billions of poor people are increasingly becoming impatient because every year they hear us adopt declaration after declaration and yet nothing practical is done to assuage the hunger pains that keep them awake at night," he told the United Nations General Assembly. South Africa wanted an end to apartheid and then voted in a Communist government.
Were we better off before of after apartheid. South Africa is another African communist country that wants the world to bail them out.
Welfare is welfare it don't work.
20 posted on
09/19/2006 5:00:18 PM PDT by
BIGZ
To: NormsRevenge
Oh goody, I've been wondering how to do this. Can you direct me to some poor suffering people so that I can become a member of the callous rich? Thank you.
21 posted on
09/19/2006 5:05:49 PM PDT by
hardworking
(Please read "The Clash of Civilizations" by Samuel Huntington - well worth it.)
To: NormsRevenge
listen stooopid... just EAT THE RICH, and you won't have that problem anymore, will you??? chickenhead.
22 posted on
09/19/2006 5:18:42 PM PDT by
Chode
(American Hedonist ©®)
To: NormsRevenge
You mean "Murderous Marxist Moron Mbeki", don't you???
Ole Thabo ought to ask his fellow African "leaders" where all the multibillions in aid that have already been sunk into Africa have gone.
To: NormsRevenge
Callous wealthy nations are indifferent to the plight of the poor as they pursue selfish policies which enrich the few at the expense of the many, South African President Thabo Mbeki said on Tuesday.In other words, "You aren't giving me, er, us enough."
26 posted on
09/19/2006 6:00:46 PM PDT by
MEGoody
(Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.)
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