On Sun, 24 Jul 2005 19:42:21 -0500, wrote:

Throwing money and food to other countries,some countries,results in the
rulers of those countries siphoning off the food and money for things
that does not help those countries.
cuhulin

Mr. Bono circumvents the corrupt state authorities by using NGOs to
administer the help.

On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 13:34:57 GMT, David wrote:

On Sun, 24 Jul 2005 19:42:21 -0500, wrote:

Throwing money and food to other countries,some countries,results in the
rulers of those countries siphoning off the food and money for things
that does not help those countries.
cuhulin

Mr. Bono circumvents the corrupt state authorities by using NGOs to
administer the help.

Firstly, in a thoroughly corrupt country (like most countries in
Africa are), corruption is a way of life, hence even NGOs will be, and
indeed are, corrupt and inefficient - they are not staffed with
angels, but with real, local people.

But this is not the most important point. The main point is that
throwing money to the poor has never made them rich in the long term.
It just makes the situation worse by making them dependent on
handouts. To make them truly independent and thus conquer poverty, you
need to get the economy going and teach the people how to fend for
themselves. But in order to get economy going, you need to have a
legal system and a law obiding society.

In most African countries where you have violent thugs running
berserk, corrupt governments, inefficient legal system and law
enforcement, you can't start a business and no sensible foreign
company will invest there either. And that's precisely why there is
poverty in Africa.

Peter Newman

On Wed, 27 Jul 2005 15:54:41 GMT, (Peter Newman)
wrote:


In most African countries where you have violent thugs running
berserk, corrupt governments, inefficient legal system and law
enforcement, you can't start a business and no sensible foreign
company will invest there either. And that's precisely why there is
poverty in Africa.

Peter Newman
So why'd we invade Iraq?

Jon Rappaport's article,What They Are Messing With,at
www.nomorefakenews.com A lot of folks nowdays don't know what FREEDOM
is and why FREEDOM is so important and why some folks fight and die for
FREEDOM.FREEDOM has become an ugly word in govts all over the
World,including U.S.fed govt.
cuhulin