I’ve been to Africa briefly. I understand the situation to at least a limited extent. I stand with many, including Africans, who believe that the right thing to do in Africa’s case, is to stop subsidizing behaviors that are dysfunctional. I wonder if you understand the situation here at home to the same level? Owing the Chinese money is not a good thing. Importing goods that we should be able to make at home at a competitive price is not a good thing. Zero is out to do some real damage to America, and we need to focus here. Rolling back job killing regulations and defeating cap and trade is a start, along with closing our borders and preventing the passage of socialized medicine. We’ve got our hands full. The rest of the world is going to have to help themselves for a while.
Which, if you would bother to find out what the Bush policy was, and the controls on the aid were, you would understand was exactly what was happening.
We were most certainly NOT "subsudizing behaviors that are dysfunctional." We were, under the Bush policy, requiring moral behavior to get the aid.
The State Department leftists went crazy when Condi Rice introduced the ABC pattern of behavior as a requirement for help because it was so MORAL. But then it started to work, and some of them came around.
As for your comments about Obama - they are irrelevant to the discussion, and I understand full well what is going on. It has nothing to do with stopping the mass death in Africa.
Ditto. Totally agree on all points listed.