When seeking for the truth, one must look at the current world situation and realize that certain things are destined to happen. In the world today, there are rich nations and poor nations. Much of the reasoning why certain nations are blessed economically, is directly related to their educational advances, creation of new technologies, et al. I also believe that the religion one chooses is important, which can be extrapolated by looking at the predominate religions of nations and the prosperity of those whom have chosen Judeo-Christian as their primary path … but that is a story for another thread.

I got on this topic after seeing the CNN coverage of the World Summit, which our president did not attend. The thrust, which has been expounded on again and again, is one of reducing the disparity between rich and poor nations by creating some form of poor nation welfare. It seems history should teach us that this does not work. Here is the general scenario. The U.S. sees a poor country, with large numbers of its population starving. We try to solve the problem, either through government or pop stars, to ease the suffering by sending large amounts of aid. Enter the despot war lord, who steals all of the aid. If it is money, he buys himself some neat stuff; if it is food, he steals it, sells it, and buys himself some neat stuff. Thus, the pockets of the war lords are filled, and the people still starve.

The latest push is form some form of world-wide tax to supplement the poor nations, which means that the rich nations primarily pay. Without some means of distributing the money and aid where it cannot get into the hands of the despot, we will not be successful, no matter how much we take from the wealthy people or nations. You would think that we would learn from our own failed welfare system. To suggest that the rich nations should fork out even larger amounts of money, without a system to guarantee its distribution, we are talking a system much worse than welfare.