Voice from the Commonwealth Commentary, World Views and Occasional Rants from a small 'l' libertarian in Massachussetts
"If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest for freedom, go home and leave us in peace. We seek not your council nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen." - Samuel Adams
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"Your blog is bullshit"- anonymous angry French reader.
It's about time that American representatives at the International Bash-America Conferences stopped taking the constant berating. All they do is sit around commiserating and bitching about how it is all America's fault and therefore America must give everyone more free money while trying to avoid comng up with any real solutions or looking at the real reasons so many countires are screwed up.
Andrew Natsios, director of the U.S. Agency for International Development, is quoted in the Washington Times as expressing outrage about environmental groups working to have African governments turn their backs on U.S.-proffered, genetically modified food that could feed millions of starving people.
"They can play these games with Europeans, who have full stomachs, but it is revolting and despicable to see them do so when the lives of Africans are at stake," he told reporters for the newspaper.
"The Bush administration is not going to sit there and let these groups kill millions of poor people through their ideological campaigns," he said.
I wonder. If colonialism was so horrible and is solely responsible for the disaster area that is Africa today, why is it that the former colonies of India, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, South Korea, Malaysia and Macau are not basket-cases? Sure not all of these places are perfect but, representational government exists to some degree in all of them, free markets reign, poverty and sickness are in decline in most of these places, education is on the rise and none are clamoring for handouts while refusing to accept the consequenses of bad government.
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