Tuesday, January 04, 2005

World Aid Unintentionally Feeds India's Poor

They have quite a bit of aid flowing into India and surrounding areas due to, of course, the much maligned tsunami. The aid workers are having a hard time directing aid to the victims of the tsunami, because they can't differentiate between the recently poor and the vestigally poor. So, as a direct effect, they're handing out aid to everyone, not just "those who need it". Call me crazy, but if I live in a hut selling 3 fish a day and you live on the side of the road begging three fish a day.. Does that much really seperate us from needing some shitty biscuits and bottled water? God damn. We're accidentally feeding a larger majority of the poor people than we intended. Only feed the ones that are tired, poor and wet. Forget the ones that are dry.

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