effrey Sachs, a prominent US economist and a special adviser to the UN secretary general, argues in a new book that extreme poverty could be eradicated by 2025.It is not America's responisibity to do this. The American taxpayer has had enough of this kind of nonsense. We get nothing but grief from the so-called world community and we send out BILLIONS in aid EVERY YEAR. We get NOTHING in return. We can't even get support for democracy in the Middle East from most of Europe...
In The End of Poverty, he says much will depend on the choices made by Americans, who are paying a far smaller share of their income in foreign aid than they promised three years ago, and only a 30th of the "nearly $500bn [£260bn] the US will spend this year on the military".
"Currently, more than eight million people around the world die each year because they are too poor to stay alive. Yet our generation, in the US and abroad, can choose to end extreme poverty by the year 2025," he writes.
You want to end poverty, do something about corruption. Want to do something about ending world hunger? Promote capitalism and freedom.
Sticking your hand out to Uncle Sam isn't the answer. Oh, yes, I've heard it all...America is "stingy" and we haven't lived up to our commitments...neither has the rest of the world, so kindly come up with a different argument. Real leadership on this issue would require a strategy that makes sense...world welfare ain't it.
