I just had a discussion tonight about what would be best for these failing African nations. We agreed, just stop sending them our dollars and let them sink or swim.
Rhodesia/Zimbabwe turned from the breadbasket of Africa into a starving nation; Sudan is a horrific mess; Chad is getting as bad; Nigeria has always been that way; South Africa hasn't been much better after kicking the whites out; Ghana sucks; Somalia is still a cluster-frig. Shall I go on? Who did I miss?
Africa sucks. But yet, you and I continue to send our billions of tax dollars there to support their failings. Screw 'em. Get your shit together and learn to become productive and self-sufficeint or succumb to Darwinism.
Hey Africa, don't take one more dollar from me if you can't figure out how to use it to build.
Too bad it is not that simple. These failing nations do not exist in a vacuum, they have neighbors. For the most part these failing nations boarder nations that are barely making it themselves and these bordering nations do not necessarily have historically friendly relations with each other.
The citizens of the failing nations just don’t sit down and starve. If they can they will leave their hell hole and flee to a neighboring country in the hope of a better life. (Mexicans anybody).
The influx of poor, uneducated and starving people may destabilize those neighboring nations.
The leaders and people of these neighboring nations tend to not want these poor depressed refugees coming to their countries depressing their wages and defecating in their streets. Consequently at best these people are herded in to refugee camps where they are given the minimum staples to keep them healthy. At worst they are slaughtered as they cross the boarder.
Just sending money or food is not the answer but doing nothing is a recipe for creating more Somalia type countries.
But one thing we can not afford to do is let the UN administer a single penny of the money we allocate of this problem. That is a recipe for failure and corruption.