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Clever Monkey · February 13th 08, 03:59 PM posted to rec.radio.shortwave

wrote:
Whilst I cannot share your overt hatred of Canadians, I must rush to
applaud the mighty United States of America for the fabulous and huge
amount of aid they pour into an often ungrateful Africa.

U.S. government aid alone is immense, plus huge contributions from
people like Bill Gates, Oprah Winfrey and many American family trusts
like the Mellon foundation etc.

For every dollar in aid that the developed world provides to the
developing world, they easily get $10 back in trade and preferential
markets back from those same nations.

Some kind of help is the kind of help that helping is all about. Other
kinds of help is the kind of help we can all do without.

Except, of course, people who want cheap throw-away crap and don't want
to pay a skilled Canadian or an American to make it.