abaddon
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Chinaski said,
"NGO involvement in humanitarian infrastrature development programs destroy all local markets for the same things they provide. These include food markets (local farmers can't compete with the foreign food, so the farmers end up joining the ranks of the refugees"
I'm sorry, but this just doesn't bide with common sense. Assuming that the majority of the money actually goes to providing stuff for the kid, they would not be able to do anything with $28 a day if they didn't buy local stuff. Importing goods from the US costs much more than buying it local (in Haiti for instance). As stated earlier I actually met the kid my youth group sponsored, we went swimming together. It was the same kid on the photo, so what you're saying doesn't make sense.
Anyway, this debate is changing the focus of the thread. The same argument could be made for me using the $360 to buy wool blankets for homeless guys or giving to the 3rd world debt relief stuff like you said. Bottom line: it seems more likely that such charitable acts would save a life than my having a gun would. Or is it? That is what the question was.
Jeff
"NGO involvement in humanitarian infrastrature development programs destroy all local markets for the same things they provide. These include food markets (local farmers can't compete with the foreign food, so the farmers end up joining the ranks of the refugees"
I'm sorry, but this just doesn't bide with common sense. Assuming that the majority of the money actually goes to providing stuff for the kid, they would not be able to do anything with $28 a day if they didn't buy local stuff. Importing goods from the US costs much more than buying it local (in Haiti for instance). As stated earlier I actually met the kid my youth group sponsored, we went swimming together. It was the same kid on the photo, so what you're saying doesn't make sense.
Anyway, this debate is changing the focus of the thread. The same argument could be made for me using the $360 to buy wool blankets for homeless guys or giving to the 3rd world debt relief stuff like you said. Bottom line: it seems more likely that such charitable acts would save a life than my having a gun would. Or is it? That is what the question was.
Jeff