[monday]

"Note: If everybody dies in the first year of starvation, because there are no crops that year, it doesn't ensure self-sufficiency because there are no "selfs" to take care of themselves beginning in year 2."

The UN and the US will make sure that Mugabe and his hench men will not starve. It is our donor food which will keep the bad guys alive untill all opposition has starved to death.

[coloradan]

This lends credence to the phrase coined by the first annual winner of the Milton Friedman award, unfortunately recently deceased. He didn't like the term "aid" and urged that it instead be called by the more accurate term, "government to government transfer," in which the poor of rich countries, subsidize the rich, and especially the governments, in poor countries.