Well last night was the eleventh annual buy a Mercedes for a dictator fest. Yes that time of the year when celebrities, worth around £2,000,000,000 or more between them gain some free advertising and beg ordainary people to part with their money. This year £40,000,000 in all.
They know full well that the vast majority of this money is going to go straight into Swiss bank accounts, Luxury car dealers and buy guns and other weapons so African dictators can keep their main source of income going, poverty. A tiny bit will go to the poor, but not much.
What incentive has any African dictator got to help his people? If they were not poor we would not keep giving him money. So he couldn't fill his bank account and couldn't pay his private army. The only asset that most of these dictators have is poverty. All the time their population is kept below the poverty level idiots in the west throw money at them.
We should try it the other way, cut the money off completely, don't give a penny. That way, when their bullets run out they can't buy anymore. And if there is no money then there is no reason for these dictators to be there. So they will bugger off with the money they have already fleeced from us and somebody who actually wants to make a difference will take over.
But won't people starve to death? Of course they will. But they already do, and die of disease, war and just because the guy in charge says they should. The difference is that if we cut off the aid, don't loan them money etc then things will eventually get better rather than getting worse year after year which is the situation now.
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