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popeye1250 -> RE: Will Republicans block humanitarian aid to Japan like Tom Coburn did for Haiti (3/12/2011 11:42:27 AM)
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ORIGINAL: Termyn8or
And the fucking government will give it away so we can stay 10 trillion in debt. That's what motherfuckers do.
Never attribute to stupidity what can be traced to malice. The only thing I don't get is what the fuck we ever did to them, and what the fuck we are going to do to them eventually when people wake up.
T^T
Well, in a case like earthquakes, tsunamis and other natural disasters I certainly don't mind helping to get a country back on it's feet.
But after six months to a year or so when housing is being built, there's fresh water widely available and everyone's being fed and clothed *our job* is done and it's up to that individual country to handle things. And certainly Japan will!
"Foreign aid", the long term, institutional kind simply doesn't work. All it does is foster dependance and underwrites failure.
When I lived in New Hampshire I met a young woman who's uncle I knew. She was just back from some African country as a teacher with the "U.N."
She told me that she was there to teach *them* how to become teachers in a couple of small villages. She said she couldn't get them to do anything and told them that she wasn't there to teach but to show them how to teach. She said they couldn't "grasp that concept" and simply did nothing. She said she had to "round them up" each day from various neighbors who they were visiting.
She said she was just one in a long succession of teachers there and that there'd be more after her and those people knew that so why should they expend any effort which they didn't.
The third world is the third world and our govt shouldn't be wasting *our Taxdollars* on it.
When you have countries who have been on "foreign aid" for FOURTY YEARS you know it doesn't work.
If we help a country like Japan we *know* they'll be back on their feet again in a year or two.Hard work is ingrained in the Japanese people.
If we give money to a country like Haiti or other fourth world countries it's like giving money to your deadbeat brother-in-law who's down and out and living at your house and getting him off the couch at noon time to go look for a job is a major ordeal. Oh, and you'll never see the money again! It simply "vanishes".
I don't want my govt even involved in this type of thing in the first place!
Add to that "Foreign Aid" is probably the most corrupt govt program going! The stealing starts right away on K Street by the lawyers and lobbyists and ends up with the "Exhaulted Rulers" in those countries hiring private jets for multi-million *dollar* shopping trips to London and Paris!
Imagine if you were a lobbyist and your firm was hired by a third world country to steal the Taxpayer's money and you got $500 m which is nothing? You could get a $100m "commission" for you and your firm just by playing golf with and "schmoozing" with some congressmen!
Nice "work" if you can get it eh?
But of course,....."it's for *the CHILD-ren!!!"
There's simply too much corruption and graft involved in it.
Also, it's simply not the job of U.S. Taxpayers to ensure the survival of foreign countries.
They survived *before* foreign aid didn't they?
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