Then get those damn socialist countries to start cranking out new drugs.
I would very much like to see America do more for third world countries. However it's not like we aren't helping. We ARE. And often we help and other countries spit on us. We give money and aid to nations that go to the UN and say all kinds of horrible things bout us. And we keep giving because we just know those damn good intentions are going to pay off... someday, right? We've had the peace corps and doctors without borders but do those countries give a damn? Do they?
You don't seem to. You just want us to do more. And I'm guessing morre. And I'm guessing that when we send drugs to Africa the drugs will be stolen and sold on the black market AS IT IS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW.
I did not say that the US is doing nothing.
I was just pointing out at something the US is not doing.
I am not 100% sure how you can predict that sending drugs to Africa would immediately creating a black market for them and how this could not be avoided or fought
Evidence?
This is a platitude. I'm sure we can do better. I'd like to do better. I (a) don't think anything is that easy and (b) think anyone will care. Good inentions are often seen as weakness by many nations. The leaders know how to get rich of American good will all the while pumping up the rhetoric about how America is the devil.
How can America be seen in a worse way, if your President comes out and says that he is in favour of getting rid of nukes?
I have a limit for what I want to deal with.
I'm absolutely against farm subsidies. I've sent letters to both my congresman and the newspaper editor.
One problem, many nations do the same.
American companies want a fair deal, hell, ok, they want a better than fair deal often but at least make it fair.
I don't know what the solution is.
OK
That is a good point.
So, you will agree that sometimes, national interests play a role against free market.
I am not talking about you, I am talking about the situation in the US, and in Western power, which is not as clean as many may think:
US blamed as trade talks end in acrimony
The world trade talks that were supposed to relieve poverty and improve economic growth collapsed into indefinite suspension on Monday, after nearly five years of protracted wrangling.
A last-ditch meeting in Geneva of the six core “Doha round” negotiators – India, Brazil, the US, EU, Japan and Australia – broke up amid recriminations over irreconcilable differences about farm liberalisation. The US continued to argue for big cuts in farm import tariffs to open up markets for its farmers, a demand fiercely rejected by the European Union, Japan and India, which said America had first to go further in offering to cut agricultural subsidies.
The Doha round, which began in November 2001, will now enter indefinite suspension unless and until a consensus within the World Trade Organisation’s 149 member countries can be found to revive it.
The White House’s authority from the US Congress to negotiate trade deals expires next year. Most experts and officials think Congress unlikely to renew that authority, rendering any near-term agreement impossible.
The amount of work required to complete an agreement meant that the end of this month was in effect a deadline for a deal.
Four of the six countries present rounded on the US as the culprit for the collapse in the talks, which started on Sunday and ended on Monday.
Peter Mandelson, EU trade commissioner, told the Financial Times: “If the US continues to demand dollar-for-dollar compensation in market access [cutting tariffs] for reducing domestic support, no one in the developing world will ever buy that and the EU will not either.”
Even Brazil, which shares some of the US’s interest in reducing farm tariffs, identified US intransigence on subsidies as the blockage that prevented an agreement.
Kamal Nath, the Indian trade minister, said of the US: “Everybody put something on the table except one country who said ‘we can’t see anything on the table’.”
From the Financial Times:
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/dfa460d0-1afd-11db-b164-0000779e2340.html
Things that make you go hmmmm.....