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Old 08-17-2011, 09:44 PM
 
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I think we need to divert all funding from congressional special interest projects and lend a hand to Somalia. No more pork. If we get rid of the pork we can take care of Americans and lend a hand to Somalia.
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Old 08-17-2011, 09:47 PM
 
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We've been pouring money into starving Africans for decades.
They are still starving.

They have corrupt leaders who wish to keep them poor.
There's nothing we can do.

...unless anyone thinks we should enter into our 4th current war and go after the corrupt African leaders, that is.
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Old 08-17-2011, 09:56 PM
 
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Ok, get out of Iraq and Afghanistan and send troops in to save the Somalians. We actually have a chance in Somalia.
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Old 08-17-2011, 09:58 PM
 
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Sorry the only foreign country which matters is Israel. There's a reason we give them billions a year, to feed their starving population and build settlements in the illegally occupied territories.

That is in American interests.... right? That's what our media tells us.... so that is right.. correct...? Or is our media controlled by special interests....?
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Old 08-17-2011, 09:58 PM
 
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Ok, get out of Iraq and Afghanistan and send troops in to save the Somalians. We actually have a chance in Somalia.
Or...

Get out of Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya
and
handle our own damn problems here.
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Old 08-17-2011, 10:00 PM
 
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I don't think we should help either, unless it's with teaching them how to get clean drinking water and grow food for themselves. We've been giving them food for decades and they are still starving. Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and feed him for a lifetime.
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Old 08-17-2011, 10:02 PM
 
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I don't think we should help either, unless it's with teaching them how to get clean drinking water and grow food for themselves. We've been giving them food for decades and they are still starving. Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and feed him for a lifetime.
Do you know what is happening is Somalia? It is far more than starvation.
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Old 08-17-2011, 10:05 PM
 
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I think we need to divert all funding from congressional special interest projects and lend a hand to Somalia. No more pork. If we get rid of the pork we can take care of Americans and lend a hand to Somalia.
And wind up the same way we are with Afghanistan and Iraq?

No thanks....

If the rest of the world doesn't give a sh*t about what happening in Somalia why should the United States?

It's about time Americans stop feeling guilty about all the poor and downtrodden in the world, America didn't put them in the situation they are in, greedy dictators did.....

As it stands now Americans give more aid to the rest of the world than ANY other three first world countries and where does it get us?

Screw the rest of the world..... It's about time Americans think about themselves first and if the rest of the world wants to treat their citizens worse than dirt so be it........
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Old 08-17-2011, 10:06 PM
 
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Do you know what is happening is Somalia? It is far more than starvation.
Right. It's drought and famine that have been going on for decades, compounded by a corrupt government and years and years of war. Yet we keep just dropping off government rice like we're actually helping. Either give it up, or actually TEACH them how to take care of themselves.
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Old 08-17-2011, 10:08 PM
 
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Ok, get out of Iraq and Afghanistan and send troops in to save the Somalians. We actually have a chance in Somalia.
I see you have forgotten the U.S. Army in Somalia in 1992-94.

The United States Army in Somalia, 1992-1994

The dead naked American soldiers bodies being dragged through the streets....

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