Hi All, In many of the comments that I've read about debt cancellation on DDN, I've seen alot of grand comments based on preconceived and erroneous concepts about poor countries and what the debt cancellation is about. Of the 70 to 80 poorest nations in the world, with large segments of their population living with less than $2.00 a day (try living 1 day with less than 2 dollars to get the general idea), only the debt of 14 nations was cancelled. Before asking questions about tyrants and discrimination, find out which 14 nations' debts were cancelled. Do they have discriminatory laws? Are they ruled by tyrants? Then we can say, why was that nation's debt cancelled? or, Why wasn't that other nation's debt cancelled? Conditions in the 70-80 poor nations are each different and poverty has different causes. Why were those 14 cancelled and not the others? Inform yourselves about what's happening before blasting forth with grand statments. You guys watch too many Rambo movies. No offense meant to Stallone. I enjoy his movies, but they're entertainment, not social science. Jorge Gallardo
--- Jim Vines <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If I were a decision-maker anywhere in the Third > World, I would ask "What's the catch?" Because there > has to be a catch to forgiving all those debts - no > matter that they were run up by a select few > tyrants. > > "Who put those tyrants in office?" is another proper > question to ask. Answer" the same folks that are now > talking about forgiveness. > > > > Rich Vazquez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 7/3/05, Cindy Lemcke-Hoong wrote: > > > > In fact I was just thinking about S. Africa, or > Rhodesia. One point in > > time they were not really that poor. They might > have racial problems, but > > compared with what we see these days, were their > lives better then or now? > > Is the size of their poor reduced? Have their > social services improved? Have > > their discriminations under control OR perhaps now > they find a different > > breed of people to discrimate of? > > > Cindy, > What are the numbers for poverty reduction for South > Africa and Rhodesia - > or is it assumed that they have none? > > - > Rich > _______________________________________________ > DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide > To unsubscribe, send a message to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word > UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message. > _______________________________________________ > DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide > To unsubscribe, send a message to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word > UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message. > ____________________________________________________ Yahoo! Sports Rekindle the Rivalries. Sign up for Fantasy Football http://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
