Yeah, or we could have spent on Africa... so it could get mismanaged, embezzled, and the results withheld from disadvantaged people by warlords, dictators and corrupt politicians...
The addage that one must
always remember when dealing with mass-scale charity, is: If you give a man a fish, he will eat for a day, but if you teach a man to fish, he will eat for a lifetime.
Pouring money into poverty is not going to fix it, the money is going to run out and disappear, and you'll be back at square one.
Only Africans can fix African problems. The people need to learn how to manage their nations properly, and there need to be proper, just leaders installed into power rather than ineffective fatcats and dictators. It will happen. If it does not happen in the next 10 years, it will happen in the next 25... if it does not happen in the next 25, it will happen in the next 50. And if it somehow does not happen by then, it will surely happen within 100 years time.
Do people need to pour money and food aid into Africa? No, that is a waste of time- you need to teach disadvantaged people to take charge of their own prosperity, you can't give them temporary prosperity in a paper bag.
And we don't want your socialist healthcare plan.
All this talk about healthcare plans confuses me... can someone please explain,
without sparking a political debate why there is so much opposition to government-funded healthcare in the US?