I'm reminded of an old Sam Kinison quote ...
I have always said we should never send wheat, rice or what ever for aid. It should always be food that has been processed in the USA.
Instead of wheat, we send loaves of Wonder Bread. Rice, we send Rice Chex and rice cakes.
We send Twinkees and cup cakes.
I guess what "Care" wants is a direct government dollar grant that THEY will decide how to spend.
Well, it’s not a complete fix to the squandering of our wealth around the planet, but it’s a start. LOL
They may have a point here.
Perhaps they would rather accept food from China?
You can’t use wheat to buy Mercedes Benz limos for the New York office, so CARE would prefer the donations in cash...
I say we send them Bono instead, provided that no returns are allowed.
CARE wants $$$$ not donations in kind.
They can't "spend" or support the corrupt political system with sacks of grain.
Shouldn't be long before the Wheat Cartel has CARE declare child-labor culturally acceptable.
Meanwhile, The African Wheat Cartel is now considering partnering with AlGore to use it's crops for ethanol export to Hollywood & Washington Liberals.
Following WWII CARE achieved a fabulous reputation as food aid was sent to a Europe on the verge of famine. Over the last two decades it has globalized and CARE chapters have opened in Britain, Australia, etc. All of the CARE operations generally use food supplied by the United States to fund their operations with foreign governments. And they have not been too choosey about the governments, the most egregious recently being the government of the Sudan which has practiced its own form of genocide in Southern Sudan and Darfur. CARE is an organizaation that long ago outlived its usefulness. Time to shut it down.
Time to stop all foreign aid to countries that are “perpetually in need”, except perhaps in times of natural disaster. I see this as no different than welfare, where people come to view their gov’t checks as a living, rather than a way to hold them over ‘til they’re able to fend for themselves. Doesn’t work for individuals, and it ain’t gonna work for entire nations.
Guess they’d rather see communities in need starve to death.
Charity protecting capitalism?
or
is it a charity protecting a despot using food as a weapon.
Some huckster on TV is soliciting $10 gifts to ship rice to Africa too. Giant Scam?????