[Nathan Zachary]

"Are they sitting outside their mudhut, face covered with flies, no power, no running water, no food, waiting for a truck to come by to throw them a bag of corn?"

And you know, they'll sit and eat that bag of corn, and wait for the next truck, because they know it's going to come.

I watch some of this stuff, write my checks once in a while for a freakin' water well, etc. but have to wonder, why don't they get off their duffs and dig a well?

Or gather wood and boil their water at least? How about distilling it? Lord knows they have plenty of sunshine to do the job, and time.

[GeronL]

They ate the seed corn. They ate the breeding pairs of cattle, pigs and chickens, they stripped the bark from their fruit trees.

Then they are unable to feed themselves.

Its all the fault of colonialism. I mean, really, what else is there to blame? me?

[Balding_Eagle]

Lord knows they have plenty of sunshine to do the job, and time.

WHAT! You want them to sit in the sun instead of the shade as they wait for the corn truck?

PLUS they do not 'have pleanty of time', they're busy waiting for the truck.

My wife and I went to Ecuador some years ago to visit some missionaries we had supported for many years. The trip was an eye opener. To make a long story short, our financial support ended soon thereafter.