DarthPika
New Member
There are soooo many things wrong with that statement.
First off, you have to have capital to help yourself out of a pit. You can't just say "Let's go buy supplies to make ourselves a better country!" That's not how it works. When you're dealing with some of the poorest nations (yet most densely populated) out there, you aren't just going to be able to do that, it isn't free.
Secondly, if we stop and help people just a little, we wont be suffering NEARLY as much as they will.
You just don't get it do you. We as a country (and most of the civilized world for that matter) actually WORKED together in some way to make our countries what they are today. Thousands of people fought and died to give us our country, so its not like it was just given to us. Africa on the other hand has done.. well.... pretty much nothing. I'm not going to judge them for it, but if they arn't willing to actually try and do something about it then we can't help them. If you think Iraq and the rest of the middle east is a mess, then how the heck are we supposed to do anything about Africa? Heck, WE ARE IN DEBT! Do you go around giving money away when you don't actually have any?
Its POINTLESS to keep dumping money into something where we have NO idea if its going to do anything to help.
For example, you have a plant in your basement. You spend lots of money on plant food, bottled water, and special lighting for it so it will live. Now this is fine as long as you keep pumping cash into the supplies. As long as you keep the cash flowing, the plant lives. Now, lets say you suddenly don't have any more money. The plant will be fine for a little while, but it will soon die. All this time you were thinking about short term, when had you been thinking about the long term, you would have planted it outside so it could grow on its own.
Its the same with Africa. We can keep dumping money into supplies and other short term items. Its great while we can keep it up, but it really isn't truly helping them. With out the money flow, they go right back to where they started. They need far more help then we can give them right now. I right now don't see anyway ANYONE can help Africa until the people there are willing to do something.