Reply #8: Very importnat points

[Cal Carpenter]

After my quick post above I realized I should have mentioned the way the IMF/World Bank debts continue to haunt a country and add all sorts of 'requirements' about how their economy works. Thanks for bringing this aspect to the thread.

It seems a lot of people are of the mind that certain countries need 'us' to help 'them' out of terrible poverty, but the reality is that after this sort of development, the poor tend to keep getting poorer, and lose their ability to fend for themselves by major (pro-corporate) restructuring of their economies.