Africa - the 7-year-old's solution

[puddytat]

And like all good banks, if you cant pay them what you owe they can send in the recievers & sieze assets...dont even need to invade.

[mashman]

External debt of different countries of the world, measured in US$ (from CIA World Factbook via Wikipedia). Suddenly Africa is not looking so bad. One day, someone (China) is going to want that money back...
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betcha if they hadn't written off $40 bill 5 years ago that Africa would be Black

[slowpoke]

Jaysus, what an ignorant, short sighted, pack of "Morning Show" experts we are, all cosseted up in our comfy lil' First World lives.

- It's our First World missionaries that fucked with their heads and mutated their culture. Hence the lack of condom use and crippling aids epidemic and unwanted pregnancies
- it's our First World companies and governments that have promoted the instability and exacerbated their crippling debt so we get virtually unfettered access to their mineral/oil and gas wealth
- it's our First World Governments and companies that have masde a fortune sold/traded them the arms to make them capable of genocide
- it's our First World governments that colonised many African countries
- it's our First World countries that manipulate/prop up governments/politicians/war lords to suit their own ends

So no, saying we should just leave them to it, and that they should sort themselves out, or it's their problem is a pretty fucked up attitude. It's our (the First World's) shit as much as anybody's and we should be helping to clean it up.....but instead we actively nurture it, and manipulate it to keep things simmering. We want the cheap oil/minerals and the last thing we need is some dude pulling his country up by the bootlaces and getting his foreign debt down. Next thing you know we'd have to pay substantial royalties on the oil/minerals, or start processing it in their country and giving them employment and a means to actually provide for themselves. Soon the whole damn place would be all happy happy joy joy and our arms sales would drop off and eventually we'd have to actually treat them like human beings instead of the desperate pawns they are now. Fuck that.......pass the cognac would you Smithers, it was a hellish drive to the Club this evening.

[scumdog]

Less food, more condoms.

Seriously.

People who are never born, are not going to complain about being hungry.

Right on.

We give 'em just enough food so they can continue to breed up to an unsustainable population level for the environment they are 'living' in..

[scumdog]

Easiest way would be to remove the 'war lords' that take 95% of the aid that is sent.
Remove the church.
Remove the myth that shagging virgins cures aids.
Remove the 'kill everyone that isn't from our tribe' mentality (good luck with that..)
Remove the locals from any position that could be open to bribery/corruption.

Pfft!

Like THAT is ever going to happen...

[schrodingers cat]

In any triibal culture the leaders exploit their own people.

In a global economy a 3rd world is required to produce cheap goods for the consumption of the 1st world.

Don't ever doubt that war/conflict is VERY good for driving consumption and so long as its only a few niggers and rag heads then no harm is done.

[puddytat]

Yeah its our fault they cut down everything, eat everything & rape every thing....
A big part of the problem & not only in Africa , is that its the men running the show.
Und Lebensraum ist sehr knapp auch.

[mashman]

A 7 year old blames the money, not the kids/people. I agree with her. If the kids are growing up in a service industry, that's most likely the only life they know. Where do you go to from there considering that there's actually nowhere to go. Especially if they've been kept away from education because they need to work. Probably never heard of a mobile phone, or Aids, or that there is such a thing as education, likely don't even know the name of the country they're living in... But you'd expect them to do something about it before helping them? Like what?

[Max Preload]

Jaysus, what an ignorant, short sighted, pack of "Morning Show" experts we are, all cosseted up in our comfy lil' First World lives.

- It's our First World missionaries that fucked with their heads and mutated their culture. Hence the lack of condom use and crippling aids epidemic and unwanted pregnancies
- it's our First World companies and governments that have promoted the instability and exacerbated their crippling debt so we get virtually unfettered access to their mineral/oil and gas wealth
- it's our First World Governments and companies that have masde a fortune sold/traded them the arms to make them capable of genocide
- it's our First World governments that colonised many African countries
- it's our First World countries that manipulate/prop up governments/politicians/war lords to suit their own ends

So no, saying we should just leave them to it, and that they should sort themselves out, or it's their problem is a pretty fucked up attitude. It's our (the First World's) shit as much as anybody's and we should be helping to clean it up.....but instead we actively nurture it, and manipulate it to keep things simmering. We want the cheap oil/minerals and the last thing we need is some dude pulling his country up by the bootlaces and getting his foreign debt down. Next thing you know we'd have to pay substantial royalties on the oil/minerals, or start processing it in their country and giving them employment and a means to actually provide for themselves. Soon the whole damn place would be all happy happy joy joy and our arms sales would drop off and eventually we'd have to actually treat them like human beings instead of the desperate pawns they are now. Fuck that.......pass the cognac would you Smithers, it was a hellish drive to the Club this evening.

Your "white man's guilt" is just a myth laid on you by lefties that you've foolishly believed to be fact.