Posted on 03/11/2017 10:05:12 AM PST by CharlesOConnell
You’re right. It isn’t our problem.
Teach a man to fish. How many decades have we showed them how to dig water wells and outhouses and they still haven’t learned. They simply do not want to dig their own latrines. Let someone else do it for them. Same with our EBT crowd and someone else’s money. We need to stop all aid. Period. It’s done no good. Why throw good money after bad. If they want to improve their lot, then only they can do it.
Africa has periodic droughts which devastate harvests.
However, the causes of Famine always include local sin - either central government corruption, tribalism, local animosities, the desire to “make surplus grain into beer”, etc.
Without these additional factors, crop losses due to drought would seldom lead to severe famine.
If we ship food to Africa, in addition to being very inefficient, it will create numerous opportunities for graft.
Please no.
The President, the Federal government are NOT instruments of Christian charity.
If anyone wants to put their own resources at work, then that’s different. But this is a call for Government action.
And frankly, if anyone seriously wanted to end hunger in such regions they would have to lace the food with birth control pills. Otherwise for every starving person you have there now, there will be four more starving people 20 years from now.
U.N. GUNS for FOOD Program.
Africa is poor because they reject God, they reject capitalism, they reject the rule of law, and they embrace Islam, military dictators and corruption.
If I was President of Liberia, I would have that country a free-market, vacation paradise within 5 years.
They make the decisions who will eat it. And if we send more food to Africa, they'll choose who eats that as well.
But, as always, the men with rifles will eat first.
“It’s not our problem.”
Agreed.
Very logical.
And a long term solution is to “fix” the governments. Otherwise, it will continue forever.
Kind of obvious — I wonder why people (especially the Left) miss the connection?
The concept of Christian charity (yes,I understand that you may not be Christian) suggests otherwise.
Christian charity is YOU digging in your pockets and sending money, not the government digging in my pockets to send money.
Just saying..
Go ask Bill and Melinda, Grandpa Warren, Mark Zuckerberg, Leonardo DeCaprio, Meryl Streep, and all their buddies for the cash and the means to get this done.
It’s high time they start giving until it hurts.
+1000
US government should NOT use my money to do good around the world.
That’s my responsibility as a Christian. Not theirs.
Why don’t they stop Waring so people can grow Food
Difficult to store grain when you are fight a civil war.
Why don't Christians help people in this country first? Go to Chicago and help bring down the murder rate instead of worrying about helping Africans who are going to behead you anyway.
Sub-Saharan Africa probably has more natural resources than the rest of the world combined. Starvation there is purely the result of bad African governments - nature has not stinted that part of the world in any way. Until corrupt strongmen and socialist dupes in the African nations are replaced by good leaders committed to free markets and accountable to their people, we’re just throwing money at the problem instead of fixing it.
My read is that Jesus was calling for individual behavior. I don't believe He was calling for civil/government action.
To wipe out starvation you’ll have to feed them forever and even that probably won’t work.
When people have less food to eat, they breed less. Women develop amenorrhoea, a temporary pause in menstruation. It is nature's way of limiting population during times of scant resources.
It is predicted that Africa's unchecked population will be over 3 billon by the end of the century. Not good. 3 billion people lacking every skill needed for survival.
If this is allowed to happen, Europe is dead for sure. It will be devoid of Europeans, and for all all practical purposes, it will have beome part of Africa, with an African standard of technology and living. And still unable to feed themselves.
They are going to head for Europe.
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