Feature this: Our Fisheries given up. Oil given up, oil revenue given up to the muslim driven UN, to fund our own destruction.
Instead, why don’t they make turd world places like Africa self sufficient through their own means instead of making them village idiots funded by western civilization?
Part of the answer is that they devolve back to primitive tribal behavior when they lose intelligent leadership. Rhodesia was prosperous. The same land under the control of the native population is known as Zimbabwe. See the difference? It's not the land or resources. It's the competence of the parties in control.
For a closer to home example, did you like the economy from 2002 to 2006 under predominantly conservative control or 2007 to the present under socialists? The House/Senate control went to the Dems in the Nov 2006 elections. The added the White House in 2008.