tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post411432421111005628..comments2024-03-18T19:14:18.804-04:00Comments on Daniel Greenfield / Sultan Knish Articles at DanielGreenfield.org : You Can't Save the WorldDaniel Greenfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13575285186581875356noreply@blogger.comBlogger25125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-22779092195346385102014-02-07T14:05:11.692-05:002014-02-07T14:05:11.692-05:00It goes even worse. The left leaning NGOs that are...It goes even worse. The left leaning NGOs that are channeling the aid, are at the same time teaching poor Africans not to be thankful for the charity done onto them. Instead they tell them to demand and take whatever they fancy by whatever means. Not surprisingly their caravans are being looted and the NGO activists themselves are been kidnapped for the ransom. Typical leftist wisdom at work I assume.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-22589954062879741032014-02-06T03:57:41.886-05:002014-02-06T03:57:41.886-05:00Once a pastor at our church used the bully pulpit ...Once a pastor at our church used the bully pulpit to rail on about forgiving the loans the west had made to the third world. "We need to share our wealth with the poorer nations of the world" conflating wealth creation with wealth.<br /><br />I argued that we do indeed need to share our wealth with the poor of the world but our wealth is not money nor tangible items. Our wealth are the concepts that made us wealthy. We need to export the preamble of the Declaration of Independence. Instead, we can't wad up that old rag fast enough, testing that old Lincoln saw about cutting the legs off of the tall to help the short. Who's going to send aid to the poorer nations when we are no longer rich? Who's going to send us aid when we can no longer feed ourselves?Bradhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17599365858111759481noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-85695078755373083372014-02-05T05:24:42.403-05:002014-02-05T05:24:42.403-05:00Great great great post that sums up my own separat...Great great great post that sums up my own separation from both liberalism and the NGO/non-profit/save-the-world sector.<br /><br />Just a quick comment on the person who said they "understand the fallacies of global warming." Sorry, honey, but if you don't accompany that statement with math, you're hootin out your downspout. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-80355601425481847432014-02-05T00:29:07.072-05:002014-02-05T00:29:07.072-05:00By Mark Steyn
Posted on June 03, 2007 6:34 PM
Mich...By Mark Steyn<br />Posted on June 03, 2007 6:34 PM<br />Michael Ledeen’s Darfur post from yesterday has stuck in my mind all<br />day. It’s one of the saddest things I’ve read on this site, and it’s<br />entirely correct:<br /><br />The killers largely operate from helicopters and small fixed wing<br />aircraft. We could destroy them all in an hour or so. But that would<br />be “wrong,” because it would violate the current hymnal.<br /><br />Go tell the victims. Explain why sanctions are better, because it<br />makes the Western politicians feel pious.<br /><br />Recently I interviewed Don Cheadle, who starred in that marvelous film<br />Hotel Rwanda a year or two back. He’s now written a book about Darfur.<br />Very nice fellow. But he doesn’t seem to appreciate that the big<br />lesson of Rwanda is that the thugs understand very clearly that<br />whenever the west starts working through the UN it sends the message:<br />We’re not serious. Indeed, we’re so unserious we’re going to “solve”<br />this problem through a process which gives mass murderers the one<br />thing you need if you want to kill hundreds of thousands of people –<br />time.<br /><br />So Cheadle’s book proposes all kinds of things you the citizen can do<br />for Darfur – write your Congressman, send a letter to the local paper,<br />etc. There’s a lot of it about. A week or two back, the following<br />caught my eye:<br /><br />On Sunday, April 29, Salt Lake Saves Darfur invites the greater Salt<br />Lake community of compassion to join with us as we honor the fallen<br />and suffering Darfuris in a day of films, discussion and dance with a<br />Sudanese dance troupe.<br />Very nice. But wouldn’t it make more sense to try the Ledeen solution<br />and save the Sudanese dance troupe for the post-victory party? “Salt<br />Lake Saves Darfur” looks like doing wonders for “the greater Salt Lake<br />community of compassion” but rather less for the people of Darfur.<br />There is a grotesque narcissism in the determination of the Save<br />Darfur campaign to embrace every strategy except the one that would<br />actually save Darfur while there’s anyone still left to save. The<br />reality seems to be that these groups prefer to go the ineffectual<br />dance-troupe route because it makes them – the “community of<br />compassion” – the focus of things.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-63931591529373546922014-02-04T19:56:12.911-05:002014-02-04T19:56:12.911-05:00Now replace "Africa" with "black&qu...Now replace "Africa" with "black" and you have put your finger on it. Which you almost do!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-70117200426458340332014-02-04T15:27:23.287-05:002014-02-04T15:27:23.287-05:00"It's the old Soviet problem. The produce..."It's the old Soviet problem. The producers have no interest in producing anything."<br /><br />They have no interest in producing because they know that the moment they create, make, produce anything, it will be grabbed at gunpoint by the government.<br /><br />Barrycuda - Americans have prospered, thrived, because until recently, ours was the most free nation on earth. It doesn't matter how many natural resources a country has (and there are other countries/areas with equal or greater natural resources than ours, check the Soviet Union and Africa) if no one wants to develop them because they know that it will simply be taken away from them.<br /><br />The cure for hunger, poverty, and all the other ills of the world is freedom and individual rights with their corollary, limited government. The United States was such a place. We are no longer. but we have a chance to turn the trend of sacrificing the individual to the state around. We'll see if we do.<br />Doug Mayfieldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14620167852028046807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-82918562288110421232014-02-04T09:29:44.557-05:002014-02-04T09:29:44.557-05:00Anonymous:
I guess we need to raise awareness. Wha...Anonymous:<br /><i>I guess we need to raise awareness. What the hell does that mean, anyway</i><br /><br />Mark Steyn summed up awareness campaigns thus:<br /><i>Ah, yes, "awareness." The age-old, unshakable belief that "everyone would agree with me if they only knew."</i><br /><br />I have yet to read a more concise, accurate meaning of "raising awareness"<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-16599523184478256122014-02-04T04:09:14.058-05:002014-02-04T04:09:14.058-05:00As one who has witnessed U.S.A.FOOD AID being re-l...As one who has witnessed U.S.A.FOOD AID being re-labled from the warehouse to the distribution point, I applaud a real-world politic view of the matter.<br />However, as long as the same siren song is sang by State Depart. clones this will not change.<br />This useless distribution of largess will continue and the recipients will continue to depend upon it rather than learn how to feed themselves.<br /><br />SDDS.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-70428542302396135432014-02-03T20:50:11.205-05:002014-02-03T20:50:11.205-05:00Very insightful!
Unless the causes of failure a...Very insightful! <br /><br />Unless the causes of failure are addressed, treating the symptoms won't solve the problem. Solutions require the creation of a culture of work, respect for others and a legal system which protects the fruits of labor for any society to succeed. It also requires tolerance of an inequity in results. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-76460953487068693342014-02-03T20:32:11.692-05:002014-02-03T20:32:11.692-05:00I guess we need to raise awareness. What the hell...I guess we need to raise awareness. What the hell does that mean, anyway. Let's raise awareness for breast cancer, let's raise awareness about global warming, etc. It is all just a marketing ploy. I am quite aware of breast cancer and the fallacies of global warming, thank you very much. How about raising awareness about how much government controls every facet of our everyday lives. Government study anyone? Didn't think so.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-23222715857563418322014-02-03T20:22:05.211-05:002014-02-03T20:22:05.211-05:00There's another problem as well.
I used to w...There's another problem as well. <br /><br />I used to work for the United Nations. One day, of the top PR men asked me this: "Guess what the through-put is for food aid in sub-Saharan [black] Africa?" <br /><br />[Through-put is the amount that gets into the mouths of the starving.] Mindful of the corruption of the African "kleptocrats," I guessed: "75%?"<br /><br />The Stalinist snickered: "FIVE percent," he giggled. <br /><br />I was stunned. This UN guy was saying that only five percent of the food aid ever gets through to the starving -- shock one; he thought it was funny -- shock two.<br /><br />Why funny? Well, because the international Left, or as Whittaker Chambers straightforwardly called them, the communists, have one guiding passion in life, and it's not "caring for the poor."<br /><br />It's all about destroying the West. So draining wealth from the Western donor nations to support dictators is a splendid joke to them: the ultimate punk.<br /><br />Remember this when you hear them bang on about "helping people," as they do their utmost to destroy the system that has brought more REAL freedom, dignity, and prosperity to the common man than anything in the history of the human race. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-29338612760112858452014-02-03T18:41:39.936-05:002014-02-03T18:41:39.936-05:00In America you can save puppies and African kids f...In America you can save puppies and African kids for more or less the same $19/month. At least in the puppy's case part of that money goes to spaying and neutering. Empress Trudynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-72232294790156676752014-02-03T16:04:32.828-05:002014-02-03T16:04:32.828-05:00The "good intentions" of Liberals are th...The "good intentions" of Liberals are the end of their thinking. Results are never as intended, but that doesn't matter. One must keep on trying the same things that never work, because "feeling good" about fruitless attempts is enough.<br />Obamacare has wrecked a good medical care system, but there are no regrets because the intention was noble and the Demorats are able to claim it is not their fault that it turned out the way it has. They know it was someone else's fault, those in Congress that hate the"poor" without medical insurance. Even if it's true that giving each of them $1 Million would have been 3 or 4 times cheaper, and would not have harmed those who had insurance, it's not their fault.<br />In the meantime, that $ Trillion gets spent and some of it comes back to every member of Congress in one way or another. A reason they don't fight it very hard.<br />Regards,DenisOnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-42366924484212523232014-02-03T15:35:27.746-05:002014-02-03T15:35:27.746-05:00BarryCuda Americans are exceptional, thank God and...BarryCuda Americans are exceptional, thank God and exceptional in compassion to others is praiseworthy.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-73658197598029360772014-02-03T14:53:49.632-05:002014-02-03T14:53:49.632-05:00Here in Michigan our potholes are blooming, along ...Here in Michigan our potholes are blooming, along with the calls for higher budgets/taxes to fix them. I wonder why they have not hired a person that can take care of the problem with the current budget unless they have realized that the problem is what makes them money/larger budgets. Our state is anti business in the sense that performing badly at a job can increase revenue..Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-84095350343038188732014-02-03T14:11:58.276-05:002014-02-03T14:11:58.276-05:00Economist PT Bauer did a terrific job of explainin...Economist PT Bauer did a terrific job of explaining this very reality.<br /><br />Unfortunately this Administration's Promise Neighborhood initiatives, with 11 federal agencies coordinating to ensure womb to tomb oversight is likely to continue to make the inner cities highly dysfunctional. The problem with the Great Society of LBJ was NOT insufficient coordination among agencies. Add in the requirement of equity and the suburbs are being pushed into becoming dysfunctional as well. Robinhttp://www.invisibleserfscollar.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-68131197331586126442014-02-03T13:57:06.285-05:002014-02-03T13:57:06.285-05:00As Frederic Brooks observes in "The Mythical ...As Frederic Brooks observes in "The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering", it takes nine months to make a baby, no matter how many women are assigned to the task. He is commenting on the reality of large software projects, but his logic can easily be applied elsewhere.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-22655416973393795002014-02-03T13:44:48.116-05:002014-02-03T13:44:48.116-05:00Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teac...Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime....<br />(or simply Let the man learn to fish)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-78187701826354765992014-02-03T12:54:02.571-05:002014-02-03T12:54:02.571-05:00As an outsider who has been trying to understand t...As an outsider who has been trying to understand the American character for well-nigh a decade, I have concluded that this "save the world" attitude is the flip side of the "can-do" attitude that distinguishes the Historic American Nation among even its fraternal nations.<br /><br />The white man looks at a gulf and sees a bridge. He looks at a swamp and sees a golf course. He looks at the heavens and sees himself in chariot galloping to the moon.<br /><br />His nation is so vast that is like the world. It is the world. What is true for his nation and his people must be true for others. After all, it would be uncharitable to conclude that different races have different abilities. Isn't that a sin? Oh, dear, I sometimes wish we had a Priest who could make sense of the contradictions in the Bible. Too bad we decided to become our own Priests. The Blind leading the Blind.<br /><br />His arrogant provincialism doesn't account for Evolution and its consequences. He cannot leave well alone. It is impossible to accept that the Iron Law of Nature doesn't exempt his "exceptional" nation. Forgetting that his nation is only "exceptional" because it is a vast, resource-rich born in relatively Civilized times, and out of a relatively Civilized quarrel with a very Civilized Power and, for most of its history, comprised of ethnically and religiously homogeneous Tribes which enabled exploitation of, virtually, limitless natural wealth with minimal friction and under the protection of two vast oceans.<br /><br />A cocky confidence has devolved into outright life and reality denying arrogance. Hubris. We all know what comes next, BarryCudahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00072506650765020069noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-56295500835453974562014-02-03T11:46:59.539-05:002014-02-03T11:46:59.539-05:00Daniel have you read these articles regarding Afri...Daniel have you read these articles regarding Africa and aid.<br /><br />http://online.barrons.com/article/SB50001424053111903747504579185800700741812.html#articleTabs_article%3D1<br /><br />http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/spiegel-interview-with-african-economics-expert-for-god-s-sake-please-stop-the-aid-a-363663.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-65562092919498579122014-02-03T10:20:41.994-05:002014-02-03T10:20:41.994-05:00Thank you for this excellent article which explain...Thank you for this excellent article which explains the proliferation of so many NGO's today and why they can never be successful because failure is built into them. For the "do gooders" and "poverty pimps" that run them, it is not about the starving but about knowing what a good person you are and the added benefit of those steak dinners that keep coming as long as one child remains with sunken eyes and a big belly.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-91186629397770748232014-02-03T09:55:09.279-05:002014-02-03T09:55:09.279-05:00Once you create an agency to solve a problem, you ...Once you create an agency to solve a problem, you have guaranteed that the problem will never be solved. Look at the mistake the March of Dimes made. They cured polio, and nearly put themselves out of business. In response they turned to "doing something" about birth defects. They won't repeat their mistake about polio. Birth defects are forever. Joseph P. Martinohttp://www.book-resistancetotyranny.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-2592801926239466522014-02-03T07:02:38.994-05:002014-02-03T07:02:38.994-05:00DP111 writes ..
Sultan
What do you think of Fair...DP111 writes ..<br /><br />Sultan<br /><br />What do you think of Fair Trade? Is this yet another form of aid? <br /> Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-74850170550301058062014-02-03T06:24:34.606-05:002014-02-03T06:24:34.606-05:00Wait a minute...
Are you saying Bill Gates’ recen...Wait a minute...<br /><br />Are you saying Bill Gates’ recent prediction that world poverty will be eradicated by 2035 is hot air? But he is one of the 85 elite who own the world, so he should know. Poverty and hunger are on the way out. Definitely. That way, after all humans have been situated with plenty, Gates can repurpose his charity for other noble causes. <br /><br />Wait a minute...meemahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09104303592278897991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-47152074686076749242014-02-03T04:40:56.669-05:002014-02-03T04:40:56.669-05:00Technically you are right about the financial syst...Technically you are right about the financial system disrupting aspect of foreign aid in whatever manner such is given, except by sending experts to teach the locals how to do or produce but you forget the enormous psychological feel good compensational aspect value to the individual giver of sharing some money out of one's western affluence to people who's miserable poverty one feels guilty about.mindRiderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12160934421830568737noreply@blogger.com