The poor don't need your damn help.I read this article recently about the UN's latest ideas on how to help the poor. I find it incredible and filled with the hubris of western nations. On the other hand it seems like a reactionary measure to the fact that the UN is actually powerless without the approval of the US government, and since some of their more humanitarian efforts are consistently blocked, this is the only other way left to them to provide some relief.
An example of what I am talking about. In Haiti, the US government Corps of engieneers built a damn across a major river to provide elctricity and irrigation for the weathly in Port au Prince and for the forigen owned agri-business and assembly plants located near by. Never mind the fact that it flooded good farmland that the poorest of that country relied on for daily living.
That's the kind of thing the UN will never be able to stop, but the only kinds of things that would bring any real relief to the worlds poor. the fact is that the worlds poor really dont need our help, they need the world to cease taking advantage of them in terms of resources, both human and ecological, and respect them and their way of life. But since that is never going to happen for the US, the UN is trying something new, something that the US might approve because it will make them look good and not really cost them anything.
I look forward to the day of reckoning. Cause it is coming, and the US is going to be begging at the door of the people it once persecuted without care.
