Posted by Bernie Woodham on 01/16/07 11:46

"Brenden D. Chase" <brenden.chase@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>
> Android wrote:
>> "Smoke" <smokethaspliff@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:e2vc88$54a$1@news4.zwoll1.ov.home.nl...
>> > redskull schreef:
>> >
>> > > we don't need millions of extra idiots in the usa. we already have
>> enough.
>> >
>> > You're completely right. A least, thats how we Europeans see it: USA
>> > ppl
>> > are morons.
>> >
>> > Just take a look at your WARLORD president and his bunch of followers.
>> > THATS whats sickening here, not some song translated by some spanish /
>> > mexican dude.
>> >
>> > Smoke
>>
>> I love it when Europeans complain about our "Warlord"
>> president...considering that the most destructive wars in human history
>> originated in Europe. If you are so "peaceful and enlightened" compared
>> to
>> the barbaric Americans, how do you explain that? And why do you
>> criticize
>> us while accepting our financial aid and asking for our military and
>> technological assistance?
>
> Because he didnt know about that. What i want to know, is why 'our'
> government feels the need to 'help' everyone. Why cant we just take
> care of ourselves, feed the hungry over here, end poverty, clean up the
> streets, educate the kids... etc.??
>
> Lets cut the funding to schools, so we can increase spending on the
> awareness of AIDS in africa, WHY, you would think that Africans would
> know BY NOW that sex without a condom is bad. How about instead of
> constantly 'telling' them we just build a huge condom factory and teach
> them how to run it.
>
We don't tell them about condoms. The Bush administration has exported an
"abstinence" message as part of it's deal with the religious right.
Africans hear that and laugh. They are not taught about condoms.

If the Bush Administration would get it's stick out of it's butt and teach
Africans about condoms, they might listen.

As to the costs of world poverty on this board, just look at the estimated
cost for wiping out poverty world wide:

http://www.borgenproject.org/index.html

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