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Re: Amazing website



>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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