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Re: Theories of underdevelopment

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From: DTaylor
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 21:19
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Tim May <timcmay@removethis.got.net> wrote in message news:<201020041103547714%timcmay@removethis.got.net>...
> In article <2tmk9fF21mh1pU1@uni-berlin.de>, robert j. kolker
> <nowhere@nowhere.net> wrote:
> 
> > Tim May wrote:
> > 
> > > The negro problem in America would be solved within a generation.
> > > 
> > > By the way, Haiti is successfully solving _its_ negro problem. Voodoo,
> > > cannibalism, plague, and negroes killing negroes works well to solve
> > > this kind of negro problem. In 20 years the part of the island that is
> > > negroid will be devoid of most of the negroes, and then Haiti can be
> > > redeveloped by others.
> > 
> > I admire your lack of sentimentality (unless you are puting me on). What 
> > you have written does not sound as though it were written by a ghurlie man.
> > 
> 
> I'm not putting you or anyone else on. 
> 
> In more ways than one, many cultures and economies are racing toward
> the edges of a cliff--a $70 trillion overall debt, a black culture that
> despises learning, extremely high birth rates in Arab and negro
> cultures, a transition in our economy from high tech jobs to
> Starbucks-type jobs, and a political system that teaches people to seek
> handouts from pandering politicians.
> 
> Haiti is just a nation made up purely of these kind of child-like
> slackers and their pandering politicians. There is no hope for Haiti.
> None. It cannot ever pull itself out of the muck....it's too hot and
> muggy and polluted for tourism, its people are not equipped to work in
> high tech factories (which failed even on well-developed islands, such
> as Barbados and Puerto Rico), and it basically has nothing to offer
> those in other countries.
> 
> And the more "aid" that is sent, the worse things will get. 
> 
> (This is what helped to destroy Somalia: what  happens to local farmers
> when Uncle Sam ships in cargo ships filled with free grain? They go
> bankrupt. Such is it always. Handouts make people dependent and destroy
> what little chance there is of a local economic recovery.)
> 
> Haiti must simply be allowed to burn itself out.
> 
> The small fraction that survives may then be able to gradually build a
> real economy. (Though I am doubtful of this, given the terrain and the
> lack of any reason for people to visit Haiti or buy things from them.)
> 
> --Tim May

There was an article (front page) in the Salt Lake Tribune on August 8
that highlighted the very point Tim is making.  Due to the high volume
of clothing donated to African countries, the clothing industry in
most of Africa has been virtually wiped out, destroyed, bankrupt.  The
people that were to be helped by the aid now have fewer jobs and a
reduced chance for any economic recovery.

By the way, the clothing donated by people is auctioned off to various
levels of distribution for sale to the end user.  So much for charity.
 Somehow, these starving people manage to find the money to buy
designer cast-offs.

40 years of hand-outs to third world countries has produced starvation
and poverty on a scale unheard of prior to the beginning of the
hand-outs.  Way to go.

DTaylor
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Subject: Re: Theories of underdevelopment
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