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TheDA
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posted 23 June 2005 10:19 AM
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"You can't just dump money into countries like that," says Conservative Foreign Affairs Critic Stockwell Day. "It'll all be skimmed off by corrupt leaders and people who really need it will never get it."
CTV News I think you are probably right, Stockwell. What looks good from the outside probably isn't so great when you see from the perspective of those in the "know". Maybe it won't all be skimmed off by corrupt leaders but probably most of it will. 
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TheDA
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posted 23 June 2005 10:40 AM
We are called to play the good Samaritan on life's roadside...True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar...
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Willowdale Wizard
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posted 23 June 2005 11:05 AM
the entire "make poverty history" campaign is about more than aid. it's about more than debt.G8 governments don't want to talk about the other issues: trade (say, cotton subsidies), the arms trade, or african control of mineral rights. never mind only governments, G8 consumers are able to feel good by consuming fair trade chocolate or coffee, but what about chocolate and coffee produced in africa? [ 23 June 2005: Message edited by: Willowdale Wizard ]
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Hephaestion
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posted 23 June 2005 11:10 AM
Rick Mercer's take on it: Would all the people with the title SIR please shut up? quote:
Okay I know I’m a cynical prick about these things but when Bob Geldof tells Canada’s Prime Minister to stay at home and skip the G8 summit are we not supposed to laugh our asses off? Did a memo go out that said aging rock stars are setting the agenda at the G8 now? Would the world be a better place if the Bob Geldofs were running it? I think so. Rock stars know a lot more than just where to score the coke you know.Don’t get me wrong it’s not that I don’t think people like Sir Bob have a place on the world stage. If I was to hold an international symposium on getting off Junk or the perils of autoerotic asphyxiation I would expect a healthy number of rock stars with royal titles to take part in it. Something tells me that Sir Bob is a little bitter about Bono getting too much attention.
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TheDA
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posted 23 June 2005 11:12 AM
Thanks for the perspective. I found the following statement very interesting in that link, too. quote:
Every acre of cotton farmland in the US attracts a subsidy of $230, or around five times the transfer for cereals
Now I know why I am losing money on my cereal grain production. At $46 per acre there is no way that we can compete on the world market. I don't know how much the Cdn. government is subsidizing our production but it pales in comparison, I am sure.
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TheDA
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posted 23 June 2005 11:17 AM
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However with the help of the Almighty I will learn how to post pictures, links, and all those things that make everyone else’s blog so sexy.
-- Rick MercerLooks like Rick Mercer is looking in the right direction for his help. Very interesting article on his site -- thanks.
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