Posted on 04/17/2008 6:47:08 PM PDT by blam
It’s okay, don’t worry, President Obama will send lots of YOUR money to the poor people of Kenya for roads and schools. And the corrupt government will steal 80% of those $, and kissin’ cousin Obama will tax more and send more, all to help those Kenyans whose culture is so far superior to ours.
He's right. Aid to africa is completely wasted. There isn't a non-kleptocracy on the entire continent.
"The Kenyan economics expert James Shikwati, 35, says that aid to Africa does more harm than good. The avid proponent of globalization spoke with SPIEGEL about the disastrous effects of Western development policy in Africa, corrupt rulers, and the tendency to overstate the AIDS problem."
Former Central African Republic leader Jean-Bedel Bokassa: "We ask the French for money. We get it, and then we waste it."
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