On Sat, 24 Nov 2007 17:03:16 -0500, Warp wrote:

> Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
>> The fact that it is more than just throwing money at the problem of
>> world hunger doesn't mean we shouldn't try.  I don't believe that's
>> what you're trying to say, though.
> 
>   The current aid model just doesn't work, that's what I'm saying. It's
> only alleviating the symptoms slightly and temporarily, while making the
> underlying problem worse, increasing dependency of the poor nations on
> this aid and killing local entrepreneurship. Thinking that "50 billion
> dollars a year will solve world hunger in 20 years" is naive and just
> doesn't work.

Agreed, but in the proposal listed, there wasn't a lot of detail - it 
could well have been suggesting not just charity (ie, "give them some 
food", but actually try to affect some change.)  There just wasn't enough 
detail in the proposed solution about how the money was intended to do 
that.

>   And with this I'm not saying that poor nations should not be helped
> at all.

Honestly, I would've been surprised if that *had* been what you were 
saying.   :-)

Jim

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