Remember that famous quote; "Teach a man to fish, do not give him free fishes every day," or something to that affect, well, we all know the reality there, and so I ask, why do we throw that wisdom away and send in giant shipments of food aid to places where we have to bribe the corrupt leaders merely for permission to do so, allow extortion from terrorists and guerrillas?
Worse, when the guerrillas hijack the shipments or take the food doling it out to themselves first, then those who support them, then selling it to everyone else to use that money to buy guns to kill more people and control more territory, whom have we really helped? Let's talk.
Last year, a left-leaning self-proclaimed know-it-all suggested to me that what we lack in feeding the world is the global political will to just go out and do it, and make it happen. Hmm? Really, I thought, you see we have attempted to do it that way, and look what's happened? The problems are still there, now more mouths to feed. So, shouldn't we be teaching people to farm for themselves? Well, often they either can't keep it going or won't, so then others come in who will.
Unfortunately, once they start living well, and farming in abundance, the restless natives attempt to nationalize it all, and the mass mobs come and take feeling justified and emboldened believing it is theirs for the taking after all, because their leaders said so. No, I wouldn't say we lack will much, I'd say we forgot the wisdom of "rule number one" namely that quote I offered above. Therefore I explained to my acquaintance;
Case in point, well, look what happened when they tried to feed Zimbabweans? What happened, they took over the farms dispelled the white people, killed those who wouldn't leave, then didn't bother to replant the seeds for the next harvest, lot of good that did. The UN feeds Africans, then they breed more, become less self-sufficient, complain, pick up guns and go around shooting each other.
Why not let them deal with their own challenges? Do you believe that it's our responsibility to help folks who refuse to help themselves? Create a "one-world nanny government" - to what end - to keep the natives restless. Domesticating human is not something I'd call keeping within the theory of "human rights" as that would be more akin to slavery, then economic enslavement, then world-wide socialism with 10 billion rug rats. Perhaps, we need to solve the problem, but never forgetting rule number one?
Lance Winslow has launched a new provocative series of eBooks on Future Humanitarian Concepts. Lance Winslow is a retired Founder of a Nationwide Franchise Chain, and now runs the Online Think Tank; http://www.worldthinktank.net/
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