Posted on 05/01/2012 7:32:34 AM PDT by wheresmyusa
Edited on 05/01/2012 7:36:17 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
ROME - Governments are failing to fund projects to improve access to toilets and other sanitation services in poor countries because the subject remains "taboo", a director at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation said on Monday.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsday.co.zw ...
What strikes me about the Gates Foundation is that for a guy who made his fortune selling software into the free market, all the programs I hear about are hardware related (toilets, polio shots, birth control devices) rather than software related (free capital markets, private property ownership, clear title registration and enforcement, adjudication systems , non-corrupt political systems, good government programs, western based religious institutions, etc). Eradication of poverty is built on social software, not hardware.
Wow, a brick sh!thouse. I have seen one of those since I was a kid in rural Virginia.
The reason most municipalities are uninterested in creating public toilets is that they generally become havens for the homeless, homosexuality, prostitution and intravenous drug use.
It used to be “shoot, shovel, and shut up.”
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