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Re: Amazing website
- To: "bill london" <bill_london@hotmail.com>, "Moscow Vision 2020" <vision2020@moscow.com>
- Subject: Re: Amazing website
- From: Ken Medlin <dev-plan@moscow.com>
- Date: Tue, 30 Nov 99 00:06:10 -0800
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>the HUNGER SITE.
Such compassion is a great asset to world stability and I support the
connection. At the same time, my own observations, work experience and
knowledge about what goes on in many countries having severe malnutrition
problems tell me that political and economic reforms are desperately
needed in most nations in Africa, Asia and Latin America (e.g., Rio de
Janeiro's awful slums) in order to redress the balance of income
distribution which is one major cause of hunger. We can provide "food
baskets" forever and never remove the cause of their suffering. The
problem also extends to international trade where: 1) we extract
resources and goods produced by 'slave' labor, resell them in US and
Europe at 5-10 times original cost. 2) corrupt importers "re-export"
goods purchased thru foreign aid at large personal profits (a former
Nigerian Minister of Public Health systematically confiscated medical
equipment and sold them on the world market to line his and his
associates' pockets -- same thing in Kenya, where street people told me
all about Pres. Moi's personal empire of wealth). 3) foreign aid
sometimes forestalls needed agrarian reforms that could solve the food
production and supply problems there. Ho, hum! What else is new?
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William K. Medlin
Dev-plan associates
930 Kenneth Street
Moscow ID 83843
208/892-0148
dev-plan@moscow.com
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