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From: Bernie Kunkel [berniek@bavarianwaste.com]
Sent: Saturday, June 11, 2005 10:15 AM
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Subject: FW: Not Enough
Dear Friends,
I hope you will study the below and then contact Geoff Davis on this matter. As
well, you should contact Senators Jim Bunning and Mitch McConnell. The money you
can save is your own. Many thanks,
Bernie
P.S. Just this week President Bush announced an additional estimated $674.4
million in supplemental and other immediate emergency funding for Africa during
2005. During a meeting with British Prime Minister Tony Blair at the White House
June 7, Bush challenged international donors to provide greater assistance to
Africa to address critical and unmet needs identified by the United Nations.
-----Original Message-----
From: Bernie Kunkel
Sent: Saturday, June 11, 2005 10:51 AM
To: Congressman Geoff Davis (E-mail)
Subject: FW: Not Enough
Dear Geoff,
This Mr. Cross lives in Africa and his words are sobering. I hope you will never
vote for any more foreign aid to these countries. First of all, it is NOT your
money to give and, secondly, the informative letter below demonstrates that it
is a colossal waste of our hard earned tax dollars. What say you on this matter?
Bernie
----- Original Message -----
From: "egcross" <egcross@africaonline.co.zw>
To: <Undisclosed-Recipient:;>
Sent: Saturday, June 11, 2005 5:45 AM
Subject: Not Enough
> Aid and Trade are Not Enough.
>
>
>
> This past week and the weeks ahead are likely to be dominated by
discussion
> on the future of Africa and the role that aid, debt relief and trade
reform
> can play in alleviating the devastating poverty in much of Africa. But I
am
> afraid that this debate will miss the main obstacle to growth and
> development in Africa, which is weak and corrupt leadership.
>
>
>
> In 1983 I traveled to Ghana to collect a debt. That alone caused much
> amusement in Ghana itself - they thought it was a joke that I would travel
> up over half the continent to try and collect a debt that could never be
> paid. The reason - Ghana had imploded, the International Airport had small
> trees growing in the runway and the hotel I stayed in had no water or
> electricity. Passengers getting off the aircraft with me looked like
> refugees carrying water and other "essentials". The famous local
university
> looked as if it had been bombed, buildings vandalized and roofs stolen.
>
>
>
> What had happened - nothing much. Aid had poured in; they had a wonderful
> start at independence with good foreign exchange reserves, a well-educated
> administration and rich resources. They had not fought a war for
liberation;
> there were no internal conflicts, only rotten, corrupt, self-serving
> leadership. Ghana was a failed State - it scared me and I wondered, could
> this happen at home in Zimbabwe?
>
>
>
> It could and it has. Zimbabwe was given every chance to succeed - open
> access to global markets on a preferential basis, massive foreign aid from
> all quarters, technical assistance in whatever field was requested. We
> started out with an educated elite - many of whom had lived abroad for a
> number of years. We had a diverse economy based on mining, agriculture,
> industry and commerce. We were virtually debt free. The world was at our
> feet but we blew it.
>
>
>
> Today Zimbabwe is a basket case - we cannot feed our people, we have
> destroyed over half the formal sector jobs in the economy, our industry is
> in tatters, all other sectors of the economy either shrinking or stagnant.
> Our social services are a mess and life expectancy has halved. We are
poorer
> than we were 30 years ago and there is no sign of an end to the decline
and
> all pervading despair.
>
>
>
> No amount of aid or debt relief or trade concessions are going to help
this
> country get out of the hole it is in - only a radical change of direction
> and leadership will do that and I am afraid that this same analysis
applies
> to many countries on the continent.
>
>
>
> People talk of a "Marshal Plan" for Africa, failing to recognize that
> countries like Zimbabwe have been the recipients of more aid per capita
than
> was applied to Europe in 1945. People talk about debt relief - we are not
> servicing our debt at all at present, the US$7 billion in debt that we owe
> is virtually free money anyway. Its not even trade - African countries
have
> had access to European markets on an extremely preferential basis for 25
> years and yet only a tiny minority have taken up the opportunities
> available.
>
>
>
> Our collapse is self inflicted, its home grown, and until this sort of
> nonsense is addressed by the global and the African community, there is no
> hope for countries like Zimbabwe, the Congo, Sudan, Somalia and so on. We
> are our own worst enemies and we must fix what is wrong here at home in
> Africa, before we can make effective use of the generosity of the
developed
> world and the new global village that offers such marvelous opportunities
> and freedom.
>
>
>
> The question is how to effect such changes without running the risk of
being
> accused of neo-colonialism? How to ensure that when leadership fails a
> country, the people can change them without violence and mayhem? We have
> tried here in Zimbabwe for the past 5 years - we have insisted on no
> violence, no guns, we have worked to secure a democratic, legal transfer
of
> power to new, popular leadership and we have not succeeded - why? It has
> been simply because African leaders pay lip service to the fundamentals of
> the rule of law and democracy.
>
>
>
> When it comes to the wholesale theft of national resources and the
> subversion of the rule of law and democracy, our leaders are in a league
all
> by themselves. We have become adept at manipulating the media and foreign
> governments and the multinational agencies such as the World Bank and the
> UN. To this long list we perhaps should now add the G8 leadership and Bob
> Geldof. We allow African leaders to strut across the platforms of the
world
> stage as if they were acting in the real interests of their people and not
> acting simply as self-serving tyrants.
>
>
>
> Quite frankly until African leaders themselves put their own houses in
order
> there should be no talk of assistance of any kind. It is ridiculous that
> Ethiopia with its rich agricultural resources has been supported by
massive
> food aid for over 20 years. Just take a look at Nigeria - one of the oil
> giants of the world yet threatened with instability and rising poverty
that
> belies its wealth and status.
>
>
>
> Development and poverty alleviation take discipline, honesty, openness and
> democracy in national political life. It takes hard work and commitment
and
> the strict observance of the rule of law and the guarantee of investor
> rights and business contracts. If African leaders applied these principles
> to their own and their public lives they would bring prosperity and
freedom
> to their countries.
>
>
>
> It's got nothing to do with race, or discrimination, or unfair trading
> practices or a shortage of resources - human and financial. Ours is a
> homegrown crisis and it can only be resolved by home grown solutions. And
do
> not think that economic collapse and human suffering will by themselves
> bring change - just look at North Korea and Myanmar for example.
>
>
>
> The global community needs to completely isolate tyrannical regimes like
the
> above and the Mugabe regime in Zimbabwe and then demand that they affect
> real reforms before they are allowed back into the world community. If we
> fail to address the issue of leadership in these countries then we condemn
> both those countries and their millions of people to hardship and poverty
> and human deprivation that can only be overcome by flight to another
country
> which will offer a better life. Human migration on this basis simply makes
> things worse in both the affected States.
>
>
>
> Aid and trade are not enough.
>
>
>
> Eddie Cross
>
> Bulawayo 11 June 2005
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U.S. Developmental and Humanitarian Aid for Africa Grows
President Bush calls on other international donors to increase assistance
President Bush announced an additional estimated $674.4 million in supplemental
and other immediate emergency funding for Africa during 2005. During a meeting
with British Prime Minister Tony Blair at the White House June 7, Bush
challenged international donors to provide greater assistance to Africa to
address critical and unmet needs identified by the United Nations.
A fact sheet issued by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)
lists totals for developmental and humanitarian assistance the United States
provided during 2004 and thus far in 2005.
While responding to current urgent needs, the United States continues to support
African-led initiatives such as the Comprehensive African Agricultural
Development Program that can bring about policy changes, market improvements,
and increased productivity to break the cycle of famine in Africa.
Following is text of the fact sheet:
USAID PRESS RELEASE
June 7, 2005
Humanitarian Need and Funding for Africa
-- The U.S. provides humanitarian assistance to protect vulnerable populations
and sustain development progress.
-- The U.S. provided over $3.2 billion in Official Development Assistance (ODA)
to sub-Saharan Africa in 2004, more than triple the amount provided in 2000.
-- The U.S. has also provided almost $1.4 billion (Footnote 1) in humanitarian
assistance to 32 African emergencies during fiscal year 2005. This includes
assistance provided through the United Nations and non-governmental
organizations (Footnote 2). In 2003 the U.S. provided over $1.6 billion in
humanitarian assistance to Africa, in 2002, over $725 million.
-- President Bush announced today an additional estimated $674.4 million
(Footnote 3) in supplemental and other immediate emergency funding for Africa
this year.
-- The U.S. provides humanitarian assistance based on three criteria;
humanitarian need, needs elsewhere in the world, and the U.S.'s ability to
ensure that its assistance reaches the intended beneficiaries.
-- United Nations' appeals for humanitarian assistance to sub-Saharan Africa
show approximately 44 million people throughout Africa require humanitarian
assistance (food, shelter, water, sanitation, health care and/or protection).
-- The United Nations indicates that only $937 million of these needs have been
received to date, leaving $3.54 billion in needs still unmet.
-- Today, President Bush and Prime Minister Blair challenged our international
partners in the donor community to provide greater assistance to Africa and
address the critical needs that are represented by the unmet needs identified by
the United Nations.
-- The U.S. also calls upon the governments of Ethiopia and Eritrea to take
additional reforms to mitigate the current food emergencies in their countries
and to prevent future crises.
-- While recognizing current urgent needs, the U.S. continues to support African
led initiatives such as the Comprehensive African Agricultural Development
Program (CAADP) that can bring about policy changes, market improvements, and
increased productivity to break the cycle of famine in Africa.
------------
Footnotes
1. State Dept. Bureau of Population Refugees and Migration- $221 mil plus USAID
Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance - $172.8 mil plus PL 480 Title II $801.9
mil plus first Bill Emerson Humanitarian Trust release - $162 mil equals
$1,367.7 mil
2. A large percentage of U.S. Government assistance is channeled through
non-governmental organizations and not reflected in the U.N. Appeals financial
tracking tables; therefore, the amount of funding provided by the U.S. is not
expressed as a percentage of the requirements reflected in the appeals as some
NGOs do not list their requirements therein.
3. $90mil IDFA plus $94.4mil MRA plus $240mil PL480 Title II plus $250mil
Emerson Trust, 2nd release equals $674.4mil.
Created: 08 Jun 2005 Updated: 08 Jun 2005
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