The poor in America today find it demeaning to beg and so demand that our government steal it from the rich and hand the money over to them without the effort of going into the street and asking for alms.
My attorney and constant reader Bernard Wishnia sent me the following email. Except for the last paragraph, it is a true copy of a letter to the editor of the Waco Tribune-Herald sent by Alfred W. Evans, of Gatesville, Texas.
... in the field of humanitarian relief, one finds an interesting lack of Muslim donor countries; blogger Joshuapundit notes: "Nothing from the Saudis, nothing from the UAE, nothing from the rest of the Arab world, nothing from Pakistan or the Muslim nations in Central Asia, nothing from Iraq...
One would think that what is true for Africa should be true elsewhere as well and indeed it is: A 2006 paper titled "Foreign Aid, Income Inequality and Poverty," from the research department of the Inter-American Development Bank came to the same conclusion regarding aid to Latin America that empirical research shows that aid is ineffective either in "achieving economic growth or promoting democratic institutions."
I have seen the Big Blue Screen of Death in Las Vegas, in fast food joints, at airports, in banks, on hotel TVs, almost everywhere. The one here is at the Toys'R'Us store at Times Square, New York. If the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's efforts to help Africa is anything like Windows then we can expect the continent one day to go into the Big Blue Screen of Death.
But I suppose Gates has his eye on helping third world peoples, who haven't spent a dime on his software, so he can ignore and have contempt for those of us poor shlubs who actually helped him become a billionaire by buying his products. Now we're left with an inferior piece of crap Blu-ray for a player format. What an ungrateful idiot.
Africa has enough oil and mineral wealth to make every one of its inhabitants a millionaire. Since its "release" from the shackles of colonialism, Africa has steadily become poorer compared to the rest of the world.
Autism Speaks created a music video of the Five for Fighting song, "World", which features images of autistic children and their families. It is a truly moving video and was the work of Bill Shea.
