So how much of other people's money should Africans use per year to spend their way to prosperity?
Well, in honesty, Africans might very well have been better off WITHOUT interference from the IMF/World Bank (without mention of the other forces that have helped plunder the riches of Africa for centuries.
Do I have a concrete solution that would help out more? No, I don't. But, it IS misleading AT THE LEAST to throw out a 'big number' in the name of helping Africa to be raised up to the level of the rest of the world (so to speak)
Then you could look at what that money IS being spent on : I remember from early on in Obama's presidency, he did send money to fund abortions in africa. So, I'd have to ask, HOW MUCH money would have to be spent in africa before it gets to the point that it's offering some REAL benefits?
What dollar amount per year are we obligated to gift them so that they can spend their way to prosperity?
We are not obligated, the question really is a matter of : DO we want to live in a world with a 'first world' and a 'third world' or would we rather give up a small portion of the over-abundance we have and share it with the rest of the world so that we might all enjoy this planet from a position where noone suffers needlessly.
Is that our 'obligation'... no, but we are in the best position to help. Now, I just wish that this 'help' wasn't the kind that is 'morally good, but politicially useless (or worse)'
For how many years are we obligated to gift them this money? How long until they can spend their way into prosperity?
Again, it would not need to be a dollar amount if done right... Consider : If we gave water purification to each town, farm equipment so that the people can make themselves an abundance of food, and the education to maintain these things.... That might represent perhaps a billion dollars that could essentially END the worst of the problems that we're seeing in africa. But even this isn't a total and proper solution since it doesn't address all of the real issues.
For your second, a better question might be : How much are we willing to spend to end human suffering?? (I mean that in a humanitarian way, since it would probably be alot more cost efficient to merely bomb them into oblivian)
(While you're at it, perhaps you can also explain why we are obligated to make this gift, and to help them spend their way to prosperity.)
It's not so much of an 'obligation' but depending on the intention, in this case, creating a 'new world order' then you need to at least make it seem like you're trying to raise the level of existance of all people equally.... Unfortunately, the architects of the 'new world order' are viruently racist against africa, the take pride in the works of Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Hitler FAR more than they praise the achievements of democracy, and have about as much interest in helping to end the suffering of africans as hitler was interested in protecting Jews by putting them in camps.
