Interesting...

G Fresh · Post by **G Fresh** » Fri Aug 17, 2007 2:54 pm

...the second half of the article anyway.

sevesd93 · Post by **sevesd93** » Fri Aug 17, 2007 3:53 pm

The part about Bono being short?

bassjones · Post by **bassjones** » Fri Aug 17, 2007 4:00 pm

perhaps Africa needs a Margaret Thatcher (or Ronald Reagan)...

=^-..-^= · Post by **=^-..-^=** » Fri Aug 17, 2007 4:41 pm

No room for dissent from your point of view, there, huh, Bono? Way to respond intelligently, by the way.

Until African governments learn to respect and enforce private property rights, investment there will be just as much a destructive factor as aid is. You can't be an entrepreneur very well if the government is going to tax you 80-90% on your innovation, or sieze your factory outright.

Sankofa · Post by **Sankofa** » Sat Aug 18, 2007 7:55 am

bassjones wrote:perhaps Africa needs a Margaret Thatcher (or Ronald Reagan)...

Considering Thatcher was Ronald Reagan's brain for international policy, your parenthetical aside proves redundant.

bassjones · Post by **bassjones** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 1:04 pm

Sankofa wrote:
bassjones wrote:perhaps Africa needs a Margaret Thatcher (or Ronald Reagan)...
Considering Thatcher was Ronald Reagan's brain for international policy, your parenthetical aside proves redundant.

I was referring more to the domestic economic policies of the two leaders...

I'm torn on the issue to be honest. I can understand where the guy is coming from, but the Colonization of Africa by France, Belgium and England, and the manner in which they turned their Colonies back over is largely responsible for this current mess (a wildly understated term for the situation in many African nations) and I feel there is a responsibility to help fix it. That said, propping up dictators and thugs by providing charitable support is of no use either, and it's no secret that most of the aid intended for the people ends up in the hands of the thugs causing most of the trouble.