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To: antonia
Annual Cost of Improving the World
• $19 billion: Eliminates starvation and ...

So if we just pour some money into Zimbabwe with thugs like that running around, everything will be sweetness and light, or do the thugs just collect?

• $484 billion: Cost of Iraq War thus far.

cost of thug removal

14 posted on 06/15/2008 11:09:35 AM PDT by SiGeek
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To: SiGeek
Annual Cost of Improving the World
• $19 billion: Eliminates starvation and ...

So if we just pour some money into Zimbabwe with thugs like that running around, everything will be sweetness and light, or do the thugs just collect?

• $484 billion: Cost of Iraq War thus far.
cost of thug removal

 

With the present and past (UN) system, just the thugs have been collecting. Iraq, because it has not been part of the UN system, has been successful so far.

 

15 posted on 06/15/2008 4:06:38 PM PDT by antonia ("Be the person your dog thinks you are....")
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To: SiGeek

>>So if we just pour some money into Zimbabwe with thugs like that running around, everything will be sweetness and light, or do the thugs just collect?

I know it’s a rhetorical question, but I have to answer.

Most of the history of Western aid to post-colonial Africa is that the thugs just collect.


17 posted on 06/16/2008 1:40:43 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (<===Non-bitter, Gun-totin', Typical White American)
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