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May 04, 2005
Bono the Benevolent
Gosh, I can't wait 'till I'm a rock star, so I can scold world leaders for not flushing enough of their citizens' wealth down the toilet. Apparently Bono dissed his former homie, Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin, going so far as to admonish thousands of concert-goers...
..to call his penny-pinching ass on a private number (not so private anymore since Bono had them project the number on a huge screen) and harangue him for not giving enough of their confiscated cash to the Third World. It seems the pompous popstar is not satisfied with Paul Martin's commitment to destroying untold billions of dollars of private wealth in the name of the public good on the domestic tip. If he were really committed to equality, he would take more of that shakedown money and funnel it into economies even more backward and socialist than Canada's. I mean, what's the wait time for an MRI in Canada, three months?. These people are living high on the hog, I say a little more privation would build their character. Not that Canadians are lacking any character, no sir.
Now don't get me wrong, I don't mean to make light of the suffering of people in the third world, or suggest I'm indifferent. But when you look at the facts, ie, that wealthy countries have been sending billions of dollars their way for decades, with no demonstrable effect, save to augment the otherwise precarious power of dictators and bloodthirsty warlords, you start to think maybe it's time to rethink this whole aid thing. There's nothing moral about taking billions of dollars of confiscatory wealth from free citizens by force and bestowing it upon those who are poor because they are living under a backwards system of government. The most moral thing for our leaders to do would be to denounce socialism and statism in all its forms and point out that Americans and other citizens of freer countries have wealth because they are free, not because they are lucky or more "imperialistic".
Private charity has its place, like when you donate a goat to a poor family on behalf of your Mom for Mother's day, because hey, it's easy, and she likes that kind of stuff, and my friend's friend works there, so I know we'll get a really awesome goat. But the point is charity should be voluntary, it should be about people who earn money giving it to people who are temporarily unable to do so, and it should be recognized as such. Pretending otherwise is not helping anyone but a blowhard like Bono.
Posted by exaltron at May 4, 2005 11:24 PM
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