Comments on: G-8 Launches New $20B Africa Aid Pledge
World Leaders Commit to Help Boost Productivity of Small Farmers
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- Mo money Mo money mo money.. When does it stop? Obama is handing out money like throwing candy canes at the Christmas parade...
Buy a man food for a year.. he'll have food for a year.
Teach a man to Farm.... have food for a lifetime..
We need the money here.. Not in Africa - Reply to this comment
- How about they direct the money towards making Africa a civilized continent.....with agriculture, and modernization.....instead of rampant poverty, starvation and tribal warfare.
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- Through the 80's & early 90's a great many African nations were net exporters of agriculture products. From what I have read, after many of the farms were redistributed to the locals, the farms stop producing and the equipment was sold off, much of it to different countries. Many of the farmers were mercy of criminal gangs that took over the area & were forced to give a huge percentage of their capital or product, so most of them saw no future and bailed.
- by Questionews July 10, 2009 7:12 AM PDT
True, and also seizure of farms by radical governments.....that still doesn't excuse the continent's lack of modernization.
It's now the year 2009......tribal warfare with machete and AK-47 is a little primative....it shows that poverty is difficult to overcome.
- Thank you Stuart, maybe you are not as much of an Extremist as I thought.....your fiscal conservatism tells you in your gut, that this spending is not sustainable, or re-payble.
Pledging money to Africa ? Who's money? ours ? I thought our economy was on the verge of catastrophe as Obama stated. - Reply to this comment
- You have to be kidding. My tax money should stay right here and help our own people first. Yes, it would probably go further to that if the "illegals" were treated as such and sent home. Maybe then my money would go farther to fixing our problems so that we could turn around and help others again. I say keep our funds here until we're ok!
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- they cant support the present population base. can breed like rabbits but have little concept what to do after that. simular to many urban areas here.
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- nolalou- hes giving money to africa not to people aspiring to be farmers in the u.s. to purchase land and equipment. its going to africa thus grabandgo is right.
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- nothing like spending good money after bad. for my entire lifetime we have given money, food, farming to africa. again and again and again. i dont know why they cannot do more for them selves. maybe its climate, lack of water, lack of ability, corruption etc.
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- Sorry grabandgo , but that is both a ridiculous and a racist statement!
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- Africa is swimming in overpopulation and drowning in incompetence... being nothing now but a pit into which the western nations have been wrongly shamed into filling with the sweat of their own citizens' brow.
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America has no food reserves and is a debtor nation... how dare our "leaders" dictate to We, the People that we must carry the rest of the world on our backs. - Reply to this comment
- seems like obama is taking care of his own kind before he takes care of his own country.
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