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<blockquote data-quote="Roth Joint" data-source="post: 29286" data-attributes="member: 591"><p><strong>Re: John Titor Debate!</strong></p><p></p><p><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(\"Apogee\")</div><div class='quotemain'><span style="font-size: 10px"><strong>Who cares about Africa?</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px">By <a href=\'mailto:dchapman@ajc.com\'><span style=\'color:#0000ff\'>DAN CHAPMAN</span></a></p><p>Cox News Service</p><p>Wednesday, June 29, 2005</p><p> </p><p>-- "What happened to the more than $450 billion from rich-country donors that went to Africa over the last several decades?" asked Ian Vasquez, an economic-development expert with the Cato Institute in Washington. "Africa is the least economically free region in the world, and that's the main reason why it is also the poorest region in the world."</p><p> </p><p>-- The West, though, wasn't done with Africa. Oil and minerals proved too valuable to be left in the hands of Africans. Cold War exigencies also forced the United States to counter Soviet influence continentwide.</p><p> </p><p>-- "The U.S. has played an unproductive role in Africa, as a matter of policy, since the dawn of independence," said Bill Fletcher Jr., president of TransAfrica Forum, a nonprofit education and advocacy group in Washington. "We need to clean up the mess we've created."</p><p> </p><p>-- "This is not about charity or graciousness," said Stith, who directs the African Presidential Archives and Research Center at Boston University. "This is the world's payback to Africa."</p><p> </p><p>-- Bush prefers trade instead of aid and the power of the marketplace over the heft of the government's pocketbook when helping developing countries. The United States ran a $32.3 billion trade deficit with Africa last year due largely to American consumers' insatiable appetite for oil.</p><p> </p><p>-- Europeans bought nearly $40 billion worth of African oil, diamonds and coffee last year, yet exported almost as much to the continent. In all, Africa accounts for 2 percent of the merchandise imported into the United States and Europe, according to the World Bank.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Roth Joint, post: 29286, member: 591"] [b]Re: John Titor Debate![/b] <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(\"Apogee\")</div><div class='quotemain'>[SIZE=2][b]Who cares about Africa?[/b] </span> By <a href=\'mailto:dchapman@ajc.com\'><span style=\'color:#0000ff\'>DAN CHAPMAN[/SIZE]</a> Cox News Service Wednesday, June 29, 2005 -- "What happened to the more than $450 billion from rich-country donors that went to Africa over the last several decades?" asked Ian Vasquez, an economic-development expert with the Cato Institute in Washington. "Africa is the least economically free region in the world, and that's the main reason why it is also the poorest region in the world." -- The West, though, wasn't done with Africa. Oil and minerals proved too valuable to be left in the hands of Africans. Cold War exigencies also forced the United States to counter Soviet influence continentwide. -- "The U.S. has played an unproductive role in Africa, as a matter of policy, since the dawn of independence," said Bill Fletcher Jr., president of TransAfrica Forum, a nonprofit education and advocacy group in Washington. "We need to clean up the mess we've created." -- "This is not about charity or graciousness," said Stith, who directs the African Presidential Archives and Research Center at Boston University. "This is the world's payback to Africa." -- Bush prefers trade instead of aid and the power of the marketplace over the heft of the government's pocketbook when helping developing countries. The United States ran a $32.3 billion trade deficit with Africa last year due largely to American consumers' insatiable appetite for oil. -- Europeans bought nearly $40 billion worth of African oil, diamonds and coffee last year, yet exported almost as much to the continent. In all, Africa accounts for 2 percent of the merchandise imported into the United States and Europe, according to the World Bank. [/QUOTE]
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