Keith,
I think you are confusing what I said. I perfectly agreed with you that the
U.S. is not a charitable organization, and does take much more than it gives
(here and abroad). I can't speak for other developing nations, as I have
only lived in the U.S. (answering Harkan's question in another email). But
I expect you are correct about that too. And the end result is an even
bigger gap between the haves and the have-nots.
The charity I was referring to is when individuals like your or I give
something (money, food, clothing, medicine, etc.) to someone else, without
expecting anything in return. It would be nice to know that if I send a
dollar to help provide clean water to a village in Sudan, that 90 cents
isn't being sucked up by some U.S. corporation before it even gets there.
Thanks,
Earl.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Keith Addison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
No it is not charity, and this is the point you miss, I hope it's through
ignorance rather than convenience, but I think it's already been pointed
out to you. There is LOTS about it in the archives, and the gist of it is
that all the industrialised nations, the so-called "developed" nations,
and especially the US, take VERY much more than they "give" to poor
countries, and even the "giving", in the form of "aid", is often or
usually tied to benefiting commercial interests in the donor countries
rather than benefiting poor people at the receiving end as alleged. All
they get dumped on them is harsh neo-liberalism and yet more imported
poverty.
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