Earlier today I published Sec of State Clinton's blog in which she's giving a speech today on:
“The Global Health Initiative: The Next Phase of American Leadership in Health Around The World”
And I find this worrisome. The US has abrogated its position as economic leader of the world - we've given that to China.
What is our "leadership" in Global Health going to be?
Sending yet more of the public's tax money to people around the world who live in grinding poverty, to provide them with free health care on the backs of our people?
Yes, the plight of the poverty-stricken around the world is terrible, but will it help them in the long run if we bankrupt ourselves in the near run trying to feed people for a day or a month... only to see them starve to death a year later once our money runs out?
I'm all for bringing civilization - Western civilization, heck even Christianity - to the rest of the world, but not at the cost of driving the US into third-world country status.
We're already there in some cities. Just think of Detroit. Of that debacle in Atlanta where 10,000 people were waiting for applications for low-rent housing. Of the slums of any large city.
We've tossed money at those places, to no avail. What is the solution? Sending yet more money into the bottomless hole that is the rest of the world doesn't seem to be the answer, not unless we spend it a lot more intelligently than we've done up to now.
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