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Originally posted by Griff
I'd say hunger and terrorism are both symtoms of failed economies. The question is to what extent can the third world develop economies with first world interference?
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Indeed. The simplistic "solution to hunger" is "give away food", which is the superficial pitch of the article under discussion (the actual ajenda being "spend the taxpayers money to buy up our surplus and give it away").
But is there really a reason to expect this to work in the real world? It *sounds* good....just like "people commit crimes with guns so make guns illegal" sounds good at first blush too. But the real world is more complicated than this. The solution to failed economies isn't an international welfare dole. Helping poorer countries to develop a growing, sustainable economy is a hell of a lot more complicated than that.
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