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| Do starving Africans a favour. DonÂ’t feed them |
| 2009-10-25 |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #7 The IRC is saying, really, that the Congolese are dying because they are poor. As obvious as it sounds, the solution to famine in Africa and it's other numerous problems is to give money to poor people. The rest they can figure out for themselves. But then most NGOs would be out of business. And the kleptocrats not getting regular payments into their Swiss bank accounts. It's worse than African agricultural products being shut out of Western markets. Food aid shuts African food products out of African markets. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2009-10-25 20:45 |
| #6 Article is right. I read in interview once with some agricultural minister in Kenya. She said that the West should stop all aid and instead ensure that its markets would be open to African agricultural products. If the West did that Africa would take care of the rest. Won't happen, of course. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2009-10-25 17:49 |
| #5 Karl or Groucho, it makes no difference. Just another cover for the corrupt kleptocrats who skin and loot their own people. We got a good triple AAA farm team working on that here now. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2009-10-25 09:34 |
| #4 #3 African leaders pour from a fifth of Old Karl Marx. ...and a full 4 fingers at that! |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2009-10-25 09:02 |
| #3 African leaders pour from a fifth of Old Karl Marx. And the US provides the ice and the tonic water. |
| Posted by: badanov 2009-10-25 08:57 |
| #2 The remove Amazonian Tsohon-djapa people have what we might refer to as 'problems' as well. The consensus however, is to leave them to their own business and primitive culture and not introduce them to western "civilization." |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2009-10-25 08:55 |
| #1 Kiley's correct, but will be portrayed as heartless b*stard (which is also true.) It's 'Tough Love', but with fatal implications for many. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2009-10-25 08:04 |