Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
> alphaQuad <alp### [at] earthlinknet> wrote:
> > According to World Bank estimates, $54 billion a year would eliminate starvation
> > and malnutrition globally by 2015
>
>   That's a completely naive and unrealistic assertion. Charity only makes
> the problems in Africa worse. Not only it increases dependency on foreign
> charity as well as increasing corruption, it also kills local small
> entrepreneurship, worsening the economical problems in the long run.
> It's the proverbial fish-instead-of-fishing-rod problem, at a huge scale.
>
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/news/20071123_bono.shtml
> http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518,363663,00.html
>
> --
>                                                           - Warp

Of course it is unrealistic and repairs nothing to simply give a pile money. The
more you care about others, the more ideas you'll have for helping.

First you feed them then you educate with the goal of independence. I'd much
rather be independent than taking assistance just like most people.


shortcut.

Absolutely, it is an unrealistic goal for any uncaring government assistance
program when there are only careless morons in government, only there by a
personal gain motive.

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