Before you read this, I want to let it be known that I feel charity begins at home first and foremost; I go out of my way to help people, donate monies along (along with my tax dollars) with goods, to charitable organizations, so I’m not heartless, by any means.

I saw a TV commercial yesterday that got me thinking. You know the ones…feed the children of the world.

Well this was one that was asking for $10.00...See they have this BIG rice donation from some Malaysian country, tons and tons of rice. What they want the $10.00 for is to cover the transportation costs to get this rice to Africa. Of course they flash pictures of these ole shacks, no doors, no windows, corrugated roofs, and these children with grotesque stomachs sticking out (you all have seen them). Naturally trying to play on our sympathy. They claim to be able to feed something like 500 children for a year on this shipment (number is right, not sure exactly how long but you get my point).

OK, here is where my thinking kicks in. First of all, the country they live in can’t grow or buy (import) enough food to sustain the population they have today. Now, you have this poor, uneducated population, no contributing skill of any sort, with no employment opportunities in the foreseeable future dying. So we (as in people in general) get this rice delivered to these children today and they continue to live (as they have been doing, do you expect a change) growing up to child bearing age. Being uneducated, takes no responsibility for raising their children (their parents didn’t) supplying the basics…food, clothing and shelter. Thus multiplying by the hordes. I’m completely with helping those that can and will make a difference in the world but………..what or should we do? Say enough is enough or continue with feeding the breeding population. There will be a time down the road where we can look back and say it was such a small problem. Isn’t that the way it is today….look back a generation or two. What will happen in the next generation or two…three… or four?

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Then again I'm a "Vacuous Asshat"  

Political Correctness:
A doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical liberal minority, and rapidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end. 

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1.) Why doesn't the photographer give the poor hungry kid a sandwich

Or

2.) Why don't we spend the money to move the people where the food is???

Sad, but remember the movie Jurasic Park..."Life will find a way" so if left alone the people will either evolve, move or become extinct.

35For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, 36I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.'

 37"Then the righteous will answer him, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? 38When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? 39When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?'

 40"The King will reply, 'I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me.'

All well and good, but do we keep feeding the millions till we need to feed the billions?

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Then again I'm a "Vacuous Asshat"  

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“Tell me who your friends are and I will tell who you are.”

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Big difference...With one you have something that is progress in the right direction. With our donations to DU and CCA, you see something is being done. Land purchases are growing every year. Wetlands expanding in hopes for bigger and better breeding grounds for a resource, even if it does what you feel "rendered useless" a "100 years from now". On the other side of the coin you see that same expansion, but in the wrong direction. Still expanding a larger breeding base for what, an even larger breeding base? All looking for a handout so they can breed, as all animals do. That is our purpose on Earth. The average birthrate in Niger is 8 children per woman, imagine that in a country like Niger which is one of the poorest countries in the world, constantly plagued by droughts. Add a rapidly expanding population and you have a recipe for long term poverty and conflict over scarce resources. Somalia and Uganda are not far behind the list with birthrates of 7 and 6.9 children per woman. It also doesn't’t help that in many of these high birth rate countries, culture encourages women to have many children as a sign of fertility ignoring the difficulty in providing for all of them. It is only by managing population numbers can issues such as health care, access to clean water, AIDS, economy and other issues can be dealt with in an effective manner before the growing population of many of these countries render their governments efforts null. African countries have enough problems and adding more people to the equation will not improve things at all.

You are so correct....

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Sorry, I beg to differ...That's BULLSHIT...My hard earned money that's taxed is sent there and I have no choice in the matter.

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I'm a Sagittarius...If you don't want to hear the truth then don't ask my opinion!
Then again I'm a "Vacuous Asshat"  

Political Correctness:
A doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical liberal minority, and rapidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end. 

“Tell me who your friends are and I will tell who you are.”

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Oh there is ALWAYS a choice... if there is something so wrong with offering HUMAN BEINGS a basic need of life (food) then you could always move to Canada, or Australia... or better yet... Mexico

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WELL SAID... thank you sir

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This is probably going to get me in trouble with a few of you. It is absurd to give billions in food aid, and BAN federal $$ to be used for birth control education (as has been done)! Ron makes valid points. Have you ever seen a graph charting the growth of the world's population? If not, you should!

If this offends anyone's religious sensibilities, my apologies.

Maybe we should come up with a birth control pill that is nourishing and full of daily nutritional requirements. REMEMBER, you heard it here. Wow, another million dollar idea. What's the old saying about killing two birds with one stone?????????????  Not trying to derail this post, but hoping somebody could form an opinion that would let me see things in a light other than what I've seen on the tube and in magazines...............

GUN CONTROL;

USING BOTH HANDS

Robins 60th birthday celebration (2005), the guy's still got it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0d1HilfLxA

Calling an illegal alien an 'undocumented immigrant' 
is like calling a drug dealer an 'unlicensed pharmacist '.

In my opinion you cannot ignore the fact that human beings are in dire need and we cannot stand by and watch them starve to death on our high definition plasma TVs.

BUT...we also need to focus on the root of the problem and attack it from there. I see Tunaman's point, he is not saying F'em let em starve. He is saying JUST giving them food is not solving the problem but is actually contributing to it. The whole give a man a fish, teach a man to fish analogy.

I don't know everything on the subject but I think we can help the hungry people in the short term by sending them food and in the long term by fixing the reason they are not self sufficient, i.e. move out of the desert, overthrow the warlords.

Teach them to fish not just give them fish.

Just my $.02

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At one time Ethiopia was the hunger hotspot on the planet, and we (America) was doing all we could to "help" the Ethiopians.  We were providing food, living supplies and medical services that the country had never seen.  In my paper I debated that we only made the problem in Ethiopia worse, and built an argument with the fact that practically doubled the population for the future and in doing so doubled the size of the problem. 

The life expectancy in Ethiopia at one time was less than 30 years before we (America) decided we would "help" them.  After we (America) got involved the people there began living longer and in doing so raised the population level.  To make matters worse in many third world countries prosperity is gauged on the size of the family and the larger the family the more prosperous.  So as the people began to live longer and the families became larger the problem increased 2 fold, and actually the people in that country faced worse living conditions after we (America) "helped" them than before, not to mention we taught them to be dependant on America.

It is a very sad thing to think about, but it is very real.  I have a friend that is a Doctor in Dothan Alabama.  He makes a 3 month mission trip to a small country in Africa every year.  When he first started this annual trip his goal was to provide for the people there in an effort to help them, and after several years of providing he realized that he could not have a great impact due to the more he provided the more they would except.  He then began to provide education instead of life supporting goods and services.  His trips are the same length of time except he plans them based on what he can teach them about caring for themselves and provideding for themselves, and he feels that his future impact is making a greater difference now than before. 

I am a firm beleiver in helping others, but I also beleive if you give a drug addict money without a source of education, you are hurting them, with good intent of course. 

 

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OK, so now I'm a Vacuous Fascist Asshat.

Did you pull that term "Fascist" out of your ass or do you really know what it means. Why do you have to resort to putting a label on me for my thoughts, and not my actions. Dude...label me all you want, but do your homework first to back it up.

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I'm a Sagittarius...If you don't want to hear the truth then don't ask my opinion!
Then again I'm a "Vacuous Asshat"  

Political Correctness:
A doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical liberal minority, and rapidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end. 

“Tell me who your friends are and I will tell who you are.”

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Craig Wyse

The artist formerly known as "wysecw"

"Yesterday is a canceled check, tomorrow is a promissary note, but today is cash in hand."

 Mark

 Pensacola,FL

Actually, one could easily make a strong case for overpopulation having great relevance to fishing and hunting. For some facts (?) try

www.populationinstitute.org

this is not to say that charity is not incumbent on a christian. it most definitely is. Acts 20:35 comes to mind. the famous quote attributed to Jesus saying there is more happiness in giving than receiving. this could be spiritual or physical giving. at least one thing  ron is correct in saying charity begins at home. in the book of 1 or 2nd Timothy chap 2 i think it  says christian man is worse than one w/o faith if he does not provide first for his own family.

the only hope for mankind is the kingdom of heaven that Jesus taught us to pray for. it is commonly known as the "our father" prayer. his will is being done in heaven, just not completely on earth yet. though this is not a popular idea, the bible teaches that God will restore the earth to a paradise as he originally intended. this means no one going hungry anymore. and by extension it means a whole lot more. just pm me if you really want to know more about the paradise earth statement.

i dont mind anyone quoting scripture, i do it all the time. just please use it in the proper context. so just because Jesus says something, doesnt mean we need to apply it for every occasion.

flame on

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