Re: Giving to charity..
Originally Posted by
The Dog Lover
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I am sick and tired of seeing black brats in Africa. Why can't all the charities do something to curb the birth rate. It is the only thing that will make a difference long term. All they do is have more and more kids they can't afford and expect the western world to cough up in aid. Its crap.
Oh dear, you've mentioned the unmentionable elephant in the room - uncontrolled population growth!
Unfortunately it is not down to charities to promote contraception in the Third World, it should be promoted by their own corrupt governments. The problem is that looking at the situation logically and unemotionally, all "humanitarian aid" does is to keep people alive long enough to reproduce and create another unsustainable generation which increases the problem long term.
Again, when you look at it logically, foreign aid is a pretty good bargain for the wealthy western political class. We give them a few million in food aid and allow the trained doctors, nurses, teachers and technicians they so desperately need to migrate to the west, saving us the trouble of educating our own people and enabling the authorities to keep down wages. Also, instead of helping people in third world countries to develop subsistence farming so they can feed themselves, we encourage them to grow crops that we want, so we can buy them cheaply.
Mick