Vegetable Oil For Sale in Rwanda

Fast Eddy said on Sunday May 24th, 2009 05:28:41 PM

You little Smirk did not get by me. Can says NOT TO BE SOLD...yet shelves are stocked with it !

I demand that you go in there Andy and make a USA Citizens Arrest. Get names and numbers and send the OIL BACK !

P.S. not much different than the local bodegas in the USA that let you use your food stamp card to buy phantom food and let you walk out with a car load of booze and smokes...

Same Same but different.

ash said on Sunday May 24th, 2009 07:09:44 PM

except they dont distribute money. The USA agrees to send X million of aid not X million in aid money. They will send US surplus produce to the value they agreed, not money. This is useful for the US economy because it means there is less wastage, and it means aid money gets spent at home and supports american buisness.

Regrettably, its bad for the recipients in many cases. In disasters, sending food is very useful. When a nation can easily produce its own food, sending them yours for free undercuts the farmers or workers in that country and puts them out of buisness this perpetuates the poverty cycle.

Which is not to say that these countries would wisely spend X million dollars - history shows us that they will almost certainly not do so. But its worth remembering theres way more than one problem at play here.

ash said on Monday May 25th, 2009 10:50:06 AM

... more than one problem than an unscrupulous local trader selling things he shouldnt is what i meant. Certainly doesnt excuse it. Maybe you should send pictures to the liberal press, see if they run a feature on NGO failings o)