[OldSmaj]

But former South African president Nelson Mandela said he would accept no half measures.

Have I missed something here?

Nelson "Necklace" Mandela (whose past atrocities have been conveniently forgotten) acts as though we owe something to them.

The US has sunk mucho dollars into the African aid programs, not only from our tax coffers, but from the hearts and pocket books of Americans.

I kinda resent this demanding attitude.

There is so much wrong in Africa that a 50 billion dollar a year extortion isn't going to change one bit of it.

It seems like every damn time that the checkbook is opened by all these other countries, the only persons that are capable of signing it are the Americans. Like someone else on this forum once said, when these folks dial 911, the damn phone rings in the USA.

When are some of these other countries gonna get an extension?

[Pete98]

The parasites demand our money because they know our "leaders" are too spineless and brainwashed to refuse them. If they don't cough up the dough, the New York Times might write a scathing editorial about them, and they just couldn't BEAR that.