Remember a while back when everyone here was interacting with the secularists from DC, and some leftist said that Africans wag their head at we conservative Christians for not wanting to raise our own taxes to pay for aid to Africa?
Well, we have proof...yet again...of leftist policies backfiring and doing the opposite of their stated intention (i.e. hurting the poor rather than helping them):
On a somewhat related topic...
ReplyDeleteRemember a while back when everyone here was interacting with the secularists from DC, and some leftist said that Africans wag their head at we conservative Christians for not wanting to raise our own taxes to pay for aid to Africa?
Well, we have proof...yet again...of leftist policies backfiring and doing the opposite of their stated intention (i.e. hurting the poor rather than helping them):
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/daniel_hannan/blog/2009/05/19/stop_giving_us_aid_say_africans
Another African economist who says the same was interviewed in Der Spiegel
ReplyDeletehttp://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518,363663,00.html