Comment Re:What happens when you don't force accreditation (Score 1) 313
Sorry in advance for feeding the troll
The U.S. spending more money on AIDs research then double the rest of the world
This statistic has nothing to do with global responsibility. With all respect to those people who are dying of AIDS it is not, on a global level, a particularily huge problem. Far more people die of heart disease, cancer, etc.
Besides, most of the research done on AIDS is performed by large corporations who want to sell AIDS drugs to the world. It is not a measure of altruism - it is a measure of economic force.
Same with foreign aid. Why should Canada help out Haiti? Why should the rest of the world? The US doesn't help out everyone in need, only those whose wellbeing will directly affect the US. Who is the largest contributor to Nauru? I'm willing to bet it is not the US.
Haiti needs money to keep it's citizens from fleeing to the US. And, like every other country in the world, the US only spends money on what benefits them The US spends billions on foreign aid to Israel as well. Is this because it's people are starving? Or their education system is lacking? No - it is because it serves the US well to have a Mid-East ally in a position to crush the combined armies of their 2nd and 3rd world neighbours.
Perhaps some of that money spent on some community based universities might do more good to the US maintaining it's knowledge/power base than much of it's foreign "aid".
The U.S. spending more money on AIDs research then double the rest of the world
This statistic has nothing to do with global responsibility. With all respect to those people who are dying of AIDS it is not, on a global level, a particularily huge problem. Far more people die of heart disease, cancer, etc.
Besides, most of the research done on AIDS is performed by large corporations who want to sell AIDS drugs to the world. It is not a measure of altruism - it is a measure of economic force.
Same with foreign aid. Why should Canada help out Haiti? Why should the rest of the world? The US doesn't help out everyone in need, only those whose wellbeing will directly affect the US. Who is the largest contributor to Nauru? I'm willing to bet it is not the US.
Haiti needs money to keep it's citizens from fleeing to the US. And, like every other country in the world, the US only spends money on what benefits them The US spends billions on foreign aid to Israel as well. Is this because it's people are starving? Or their education system is lacking? No - it is because it serves the US well to have a Mid-East ally in a position to crush the combined armies of their 2nd and 3rd world neighbours.
Perhaps some of that money spent on some community based universities might do more good to the US maintaining it's knowledge/power base than much of it's foreign "aid".
