Why won't the libs help 3rd world country's modernize instead of just watching and complaining about it

Answer 1

The best way to fight the war on terror, is to feed and help modernize other countries....But not try and use that to manipulate them into little client states for big business to exploit...as we have done so unwisely in the past, at least 1/2 of the hate in the world towards US is due to our Corrupt foreign policy and the dictators and tyrant that we have supported due to their big business connections. look at Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, 80% of South/ Central America and South East Asia the examples are far too numerious to name.
But here's a start: from the past...Hitler was man of the year in 1936 I think it was....
Friendly dictators

Abacha, General Sani ------------------------Nigeria
Amin, Idi ---------------------------------------Uganda
Banzer, Colonel Hugo ---------------------------Bolivia
Batista, Fulgencio --------------------------------Cuba
Bolkiah, Sir Hassanal ----------------------------Brunei
Botha, P.W. ---------------------------------------South Africa
Branco, General Humberto ---------------------Brazil
Cedras, Raoul -------------------------------------Haiti
Cerezo, Vinicio -----------------------------------Guatemala
Chiang Kai-Shek ---------------------------------Taiwan
Cordova, Roberto Suazo ------------------------Honduras
Christiani, Alfredo -------------------------------El Salvador
Diem, Ngo Dihn ---------------------------------Vietnam
Doe, General Samuel ----------------------------Liberia
Duvalier, Francois --------------------------------Haiti
Duvalier, Jean Claude-----------------------------Haiti
Fahd bin'Abdul-'Aziz, King ---------------------Saudi Arabia
Franco, General Francisco -----------------------Spain
Hitler, Adolf ------------------------------Germany
Hassan II------------------------------------Morocco
Marcos, Ferdinand -------------------------------Philippines
Martinez, General Maximiliano Hernandez ---El Salvador
Mobutu Sese Seko -------------------------------Zaire
Noriega, General Manuel ------------------------Panama
Ozal, Turgut --------------------------------------Turkey
Pahlevi, Shah Mohammed Reza ---------------Iran
Papadopoulos, George --------------------------Greece
Park Chung Hee ---------------------------------South Korea
Pinochet, General Augusto ---------------------Chile
Pol Pot---------------------------------------------Cambodia
Rabuka, General Sitiveni ------------------------Fiji
Montt, General Efrain Rios ---------------------Guatemala
Salassie, Halie ------------------------------------Ethiopia
Salazar, Antonio de Oliveira --------------------Portugal
Somoza, Anastasio Jr. --------------------------Nicaragua
Somoza, Anastasio, Sr. -------------------------Nicaragua
Smith, Ian --------------------------------------Rhodesia
Stroessner, Alfredo -----------------------------Paraguay
Suharto, General ---------------------------------Indonesia
Trujillo, Rafael Leonidas -----------------------Dominican Republic
Videla, General Jorge Rafael ------------------Argentina
Zia Ul-Haq, Mohammed ----------------------Pakistan

Answer 2

Where is this wealth? A country with as much debt as ours and a citizenry of dead beats is hardly wealthy. Where's the development? Crumbling roads? Falling bridges? Unfunded public libraries? An infrastructure shot to pieces? High infant mortality? Even basic research seems to be falling by the wayside. Our military jets and space vehicles are using technology from over 60 years ago. No wonder the space shuttle looks like a brick with 2 firecrackers strapped on it. And as I have said repeatedly the United States has never been "rich". Unless credit rich and cash poor is your version of wealthy. The current state of our economy and it's slow recovery are proof of that. Unemployment is also high for the very same reason. Credit is dead, it's cash and carry now. Americans never had the cash, always relying on easy payments and rebates. The result is slow sales. The Republicans can carry on about taxes all they want but companies aren't hiring people they don't need to support sales and business they don't have. Credit is not cash and has to be paid back. I guess the "Tea Party" didn't get that message or missed basic economics class. But they did keep their kids home when the President gave his speech on the importance of education. Edit: We ARE a third world country. It just hasn't dawned on the Republicans and Conservatives yet.

Answer 3

Because this lib is busy volunteering at his local soup kitchen every Sat morning and donating to help take care of our own homeless and hungry. It is sad that there are starving and homeless in 3rd world country's also but if we didn't spend billions on Iraq and give out billions in subsidies to big oil and corporate America then we could do more for those in 3rd world country's.

Answer 4

Ummmmmm, How is this a lib problem? We try to help our own people in America and you complain about that. Now you want us to modernize 3rd world countries? Does this really make sense to you, as you review your own question? Why is it up to libs to reform 3rd world countries when their own governments who are at the mercy of the American corporations and right wing government won't take the responsibility to do it themselves? I think gaining a greater understanding of world economics and how they really work and how they are manipulated would help you understand why your question doesn't make much sense as it stands. May I recommend a book? It's called "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man" by John Perkins, a former respected member of the international banking community. I think you would find your answers there.
Perkins writes, "The book was to be dedicated to the presidents of two countries, men who had been his clients whom I respected and thought of as kindred spirits–Jaime Roldós, president of Ecuador, and Omar Torrijos, president of Panama. Both had just died in fiery crashes. Their deaths were not accidental. They were assassinated because they opposed that fraternity of corporate, government, and banking heads whose goal is global empire. We Economic Hit Men failed to bring Roldós and Torrijos around, and the other type of hit men, the CIA-sanctioned jackals who were always right behind us, stepped in.

Answer 5

Another baseless implication. Try checking out who helps who more. Seriously is this about the time that GOP plants clock in and start just throwing out unfounded questions to get a paycheck. I am having a hard time believing some of these questions are for real. By the way Rep dont call em "bleeding heart liberals" for nothin'.

Answer 6

What I see responsible people of BOTH political parties saying is, Why is US TAXPAYER MONEY NOT GOING TO AMERICANS WHO NEED THE HELP?

Why is $50 million to keep homeless shelters open "a handout", but $500 Billion to Iraqis ISN'T?

Why is $60 Billion to help AMERICAN kids with no health insurance "welfare", but hundreds of billions to Big Oil in the form of subsidies ISNT?

Why don't we help our OWN citizens instead of these 3rd World Countries?

Answer 7

Since when the US is a 3rd world country ?

Answer 8

Because modernization leads to technology. Technology leads to "global warming." So instead of bring the 3rd world countries up to our level, they'd rather we went back to our primitive origins.

Answer 9

What you are saying is the conserv line used to invade and take over a country. And "modernizing" another country, even if they want it, doesn't necessarily make it better anyway.

Answer 10

This is a global problem. Laughable that you are trying to make it a lib thing. I would rather help our own.