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   From: gregcarrsober@gmail.com   
      
   On 01/06/2014 6:23 PM, {~_~}Раиса wrote:   
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   > On 6/1/2014 11:06 AM, Roy wrote:   
   >> Why are WE spending money in developing countries for THEIR people?   
   >> Don't they have governments? Why are we interfering in their AFFAIRS?   
   >> I thought we elected Harper et al to govern OUR nation...well when is   
   >> he going to fix our problems? So far he's done little but travel   
   >> over-seas and spend tax-payers dollars else-where.   
   >   
   >   
   > I wondered that many, many times over the years, but saw it explained   
   > well in an article I read a few years back. The reasons why 'wealthier   
   > countries' do it goes like this:   
   >   
   > - When countries with huge populations are so impoverished that they are   
   > NOT consumers for products through trade or imports, wealthier   
   > governments 'give them a hand up'.   
   >   
   > - The theory from those governments is this: If the people of those   
   > countries (eg India, China, Bangladesh, Mexico) are able to earn enough   
   > money to start becoming buyers/consumers, the wealthier countries have   
   > found huge populations to which they can sell products.   
   >   
   > - This is the kicker: the money which is used to 'develop' those   
   > impoverished countries comes from the TAXPAYERS of developed countries,   
   > via their governments' foreign aid programs.   
   > Not from the corporations that will ultimately be making more and more   
   > money as these huge populations become consumers of their goods.   
   >   
   > In practice, developed countries use the monies they've taken from   
   > taxpayers of their countries to open doors for their corporations to do   
   > business in previously barren populations.   
   >   
   > Now, in theory, this should work for the benefit of the country that is   
   > sending foreign aid to countries that are potential buyers of goods and   
   > services.   
   > But in practice what has happened is that the corporations which now   
   > have new customers for their goods, are not producing those goods in the   
   > countries from which the money flowed.   
   >   
   > They took their production plants and put them into the impoverished   
   > countries - to save mega dollars on labour. And the huge savings they   
   > achieved went into their own pockets - and those of shareholders, who   
   > most often were not even citizens or residents of the country which sent   
   > the foreign aid in the first place.   
   >   
   > So, in summary, what has occurred is this: our governments have used us   
   > taxpayers to open doors for corporations that in turn took their huge   
   > profits and had very good lives for ever after.   
   >   
   > And it could all have been so different if our governments were not just   
   > corporate pawns and rightwing zealots. . . but governments which truly   
   > cared about making lives better in other countries, but made sure the   
   > corporations of our own countries employed our people - or paid a very   
   > dear import fee for goods that were produced elsewhere.   
   >   
   > That how I see it.   
   Then there is the NDP pro-foreign aid idea of foreign aid to help the   
   workers of Socialist International.   
      
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