For the past 60 years, the Third World has received billions in aid money in which to alleviate poverty, hunger and the bad governance of their own governments. For a long time now their leaders have used the stigma of colonialism in which to eek out a few more pennies from the West so as to purchase Huge Black Mercedes cars, Ray Ban sunglasses and very modest mansions.
Problem is, due to the economic climate, people in the West are asking:
“What have you done with all the billions you have received?”In fact, a lot of folks are now promoting the idea that unbridled aid has simply led to dependency led cultures where handouts are preferred to working for a living.
Take for example Ethiopia. In 1991 it had a population of around 53 million, today it has a population of 77 million of whom 77% are living in poverty. I personally don’t have a problem helping my fellow man, but I do when 18 years later he comes back with 8 kids in tow demanding I help him out further.
With the knowledge that Western people are starting to question the aid money they have been handing over, the angle of attack has changed from "we are poor because you used to rule us" to "we are dying because of climate change and you have to pay for it".
Only yesterday the socialist leader of the UK agreed on a plan of action which will see
£10 billion go to fight global warming in the third world countries
(on top of the £15 billion we are handing over to teach African school children, the £1 billion of crop research in the third world countries and the rest).
Clambering onto the bandwagon,
India demanded the other month that the West should pay for green policies within its borders, as did the South Americans the other day demanding that the
West should pay for the upkeep of the Amazon rain forest.
The last really rankles me, as one of those countries,
Venezuela, has pocketed $800 billion in revenue from oil sales. Yet instead of doing something constructive with all that money, under the leadership of Hugo Chavez the country has spent it on a bombastic anti-American policy courting the world's most oppressive regimes, purchasing weapons of war and destabilizing the whole region with words of war. So what has he achieved with all that money? Well, the country has the highest crime rate in South America, it has regular power and water cuts
(2 days in a week) and it has problems feeding its people.
And there lies the problem with the third world and the state of their countries. It has nothing to do with colonialism, global warming or even the threat of invasion by the US. But rather with bad governance,which instead of good practice, runs on backhanders, nepotism and I want what you have but bugger if I am going to pay for it mindset which has ruined every almost every African country to-date.