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From: renner@uiucdcs.UUCP (renner )
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: RE: Anti-American Fulminations - (nf)
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Date: Fri, 20-Jan-84 22:29:53 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 20 22:29:53 1984
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uiucdcs!renner    Jan 20 21:06:00 1984

>  /***** uiucdcs:net.politics / pucc-h!aeq /  3:34 am  Jan 19, 1984 */
>  
>         The amount of financial aid and other assistance given to
>         foreign governments and plighted peoples everywhere is evidence of
>         the American generosity and concern.
>
>  Oh?  If America were truly generous to plighted peoples, there would
>  have been no Payment-In-Kind program; instead the government would have
>  bought the surplus grain and sent it abroad to feed hungry people.
>  That way the American farmers would still have gotten their money, and
>  millions of other people would also have benefited.  If the government
>  is going to spend tax dollars anyway, they might at least do some
>  actual good with the money.

It is not possible to end starvation by sending food to the hungry -- one
simply ends up with many more hungry people.  This is no kindness.  The
solution lies in helping the hungry people to self-sufficiency, by teaching
methods of birth control and improved agriculture.  This the United States
does, and should do more of.

Scott Renner
{ihnp4,pur-ee}!uiucdcs!renner