We stopped the Nazis.Iniliara wrote:In fairness, current circumstances leave the $17-18 billion of US government foreign aid looking like chicken feed compared to the multiple trillions that your government's currently forking out to any corporation that's willing to put its hand out for a few billion. It's a sad state of affairs when the US government's given two dead-weight car companies more aid in the last six months than it has the entire rest of the world.Fabalous wrote:IMO fuck Africa, we have our own shitbag full of problems on American soil that need to be addressed. I wouldn't mind it if we took all the resources we dump into that place and put them to use back here.
Of course, that's not to say that the aid to Africa's been achieving damned much. Helping keep kids alive today to fight in the next round of civil wars or die in a decade's time to AIDS doesn't sound like a particularly good investment to me.
Pope, in Africa, Says Condoms Aren't the Way to Fight H.I.V.
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Jew power!Rensy wrote:We stopped the Nazis.
Short summary of every Jewish holiday: they tried to kill us, we survived, let's eat!
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