Says the one-trick pony who never earned an honest dollar in his entire life.
Well Africa’s problems come from people like Obama who are Idiots.
It’s “dependence,” he said, adding that America’s new approach will be to empower communities to meet their own food needs, rather than receiving handouts for their lunch and dinner.
My thought: how do you empower communities to meet their own food needs if they are not doing so already? Mandate roof top gardens and require all school children to work in them for school lunches? Clear out empty buildings, build hydroponics, and require all people on food stamps to work a few hours each day or week for their rations?
Actually Obama is right but he phrased it differently. GWB was trying to tackle this problem also. US food aid is actually a gov bill to buy US farm products and shipping it to Africa. GWB pointed out that it was cheaper to buy food from an neighboring African country not starving and shipping it overland to the one that is starving. Agribusiness activated their aid for Africa leftist and pounced on the idea. In the end the common sense more cost effective GWB reforms were squashed. This episode illustrates that the biggest enemy to the people of the US and conservatives is corporate America who have indirectly sponsor all types of groups and use it accordingly if their financial interests are threatened. The Tea Party movement will be an interesting wrinkle in corporate plans because they do not control them and find their small gov ideas a threat to the corporate welfare CEO’s enjoy. Study the environmental wackos and see how much indirect money they get from the Middle East and even oil companies. Oil shortage means higher prices.