ArrantPariah wrote:
Most of the foreign aid ends up in the hands of corrupt politicians. People like Hosni Mubarack (who became a multi-billionaire) and Mobutu Sese Seko (who was one of the world's richest men). You're basically robbing poor people in your own country to give the money to a handful of extremely rich dictators. You really shouldn't bother.
If the people are starving now, they aren't going to starve any more by giving less money to their dictators.
The type of aid I meant was mainly the 'help African children now' aid, which is subsidised by governments here and accounts for a sizeable percentage of foreign aid. We're providing people who wouldn't have been born in the first place if they had to grow their own food with nutrition and health care, allowing for them to have more children and grow to a point where the entire system of aid will collapse due to its size and we'll be left with a continent just south of us where only a quarter of the population will have sufficient food, with millions starving or dying of disease annually.
I'll specify the main point of this thread a bit better. By helping those starving or otherwise dying in regions with regular famines by providing food, water and health care, we are allowing or even encouraging them to grow their population, meaning the aid system will be pressured even more to an inevitable point where it'll collapse and a lot more people will die than would have died if no aid had been provided in the first place.
16 May 2012, 7:31 pm
