Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

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On Monday 05 March 2007 02:22, "Roberto C. Sanchez"
<roberto@xxxxxxxxxxxx> was heard to say:
See, and I have been losing respect for the rest of world for
interfering too much in people's daily lives and sitting idly by
(or providing only token participation) while the US protects them
and renders massive aid to the victims of natural disaster.

The US doesn't protect anyone. If the US were actually interested in
defense, rather than empire, the military bases overseas would be
closed, rather than manned in 170 countries, of which, what, 2
are "at war" with the US?

The "rendering massive aid" is also misconstrued. It has nothing to do
with the government of the US, it has to do with the last dregs of
what was a vigorous economy.

While the US government redirects some of its blood-money taxes
to "aid" in quantities of "$millions", the individual citizens of the
US donate "$Billions" to various charitable efforts around the world.

By simple scale, the US government is ineffectual in its
supposedly "positive" efforts. The destruction and death is many,
many times greater by government action than its paltry "aid", and
that "aid" always is paid not to individuals or voluntary
organizations, that "aid" is given to whatever government proports to
be the lawful one in that geographic area. So the "aid" actually
lines the pockets of petty dictators, rather than
feeding/housing/nursing anyone.

If you want to have a positive effect, the first thing to do is get
government out of the way. Might does not make right.

Curt-


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