By DemocracyRules
h/t Hot Air, Iranian.com, FoxNews
Hot Air reports today on the rapid progress in rebuilding that Minnesota bridge that collapsed a while ago. Outsourcing the re-building contract will give Minnesotans a new, better bridge three months before the completion deadline.
Compare this to an article flagged by Gina, where the UN makes yet another mess of things when it comes to helping the poor. (U.N.'s World Food Program Cried Poverty While Sitting on Cash Stockpile of More Than $1.22 Billion).
Given enough time and money to work on world poverty, UN officials would become fabulously rich. For them, the capitalism-driven rapid decline in world poverty must seem like a disaster.
Without the poor, Communists would have no one left to suck on. As Michele Obama explained the other day, the Communist game is simple. There is an economic pie. Take almost all the pie away from the rich. Then give a small slice to the poor. Keep the rest for politicians, hospital public-relations people, rich racist church ministers, ex-terrorist university professors, tax-collectors, social workers, probation officers, global warming researchers, litigation lawyers, and the millions of others who hold middle and upper-middle class jobs "defending the poor".
Of course people with Communist-sponsored jobs will vote for Communists like Hillary and Obama. Canada is rife with this game. Because of the large Communist-funded middle-class voting block in Canada, it's almost impossible to get the Communists out of power. When Communists vote, they fund themselves.
Of course, if you grab the pie away from the rich, they will relocate to a tax-haven country. Then the pie will stop growing in size. Every Communist country has suffered this. Wealthy Swedes put money abroad. Or they move away. Taking all that money away from the rich hasn't fixed the core problems. Sweden has a relatively small population, but it has about 18,000 homeless. The problem isn't going away no matter how much they pay their social workers.
In spite of massive oil wealth and other riches, the average Canadian is worse off than the average American. Our tax rates are huge.
The Private Sector Can Fix It
Aid groups like USAid should request bids from the private sector to resolve poverty in chosen target areas. By now the methods needed to eradicate poverty are well-known by social scientists. The contractor would have milestones and performance criteria to measure effectiveness. If the contractor doesn't meet poverty-reduction targets, cancel the contract. In this way, give private contractors millions of dollars to reduce endemic poverty. Of course they will have to spend most of that on real poverty reduction. They get to keep the profit.
This makes much more sense to me than letting Communist front groups "redistribute wealth" into their own bank accounts.
I tell you if you saw what these charities, non-governmental organizations and the UN spend their money on, you would not believe it. Fancy downtown offices, indoor waterfalls, limos, conferences in exotic destinations, expensive hotels, the whole bit.
Related:
Lies the Leftists Told me – Part 1
Lies the Leftists Told me – Part 2
Endemic Non-poverty Grips West in Dire Political Crisis
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