Bush birth control policies helped fuel Africa's baby boom (Big Government™ give-away alert)

McClatchy ^ | December 13, 2009 | Shashank Bengali

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“Saving millions of human lives in Africa from horrendous deaths may be the best investment the U.S. government has ever made. Thank you President Bush.”

Burdening future American generations with more debt for his pet charity is a despicable crime. That is THEFT! What’s more, it’s THEFT and welfare for people who don’t even live here.

“We have the right as individuals to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of the public money. “ - David Crockett

The “do-gooders” Reagan referred to disgust me. Give of your own money to charity. That’s laudable. Stealing from others to do it - using the power of the State and the inherent threat of violence - is just despicable.

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I’m sick of it too. I pay into this system, what about MY future. I am sick of hearing about AFRICA and it’s endless problems. When are we going to start treating these countries like we treat addicts or drunks, tough love? What about the future of my kids? In order to escape this, I might actually have to make a new life in a new country. I work hard, I stay out of trouble. With all the billions we have given, we could have paid our national debt and maybe even avoided it.

Billions that belong in the banks of Americans, not Africans. They (African dictators) spend freely and without accountability that would otherwise not happen to any other person when they get a loan bank. Don’t they have to account for the pennies spent? Don’t people seeking loans have to have some collateral? Africa offers no land, minerals, oil rights to us in exchange.

And then African dictators demand more and more and more in the form of slavery reparations. How much more do we have to freely give? With this recession and it’s getting worse, we have nothing left to give. When the economy was at a high point, we should have been saving like mad, stuffing it in a national piggy bank. But we threw it away and now we have nothing to draw on.