CD

Read what you have just written and then where you mention the African politicians substitute them for bankers, Russian oligarchs and the mega-rich.  For those in need sustitute the unemployed, the disabled and the sick.  For the modern weapons substitute mobile phones, the wide screen TVs and the local pub demanded as a right by those who are too lazy to "get off their backsides to do some useful work".

Our country is a microcosm of what is happenning in the world at large. 

Of course their is corruption over foreign aid, yes the cost of distributing what aid there is is far too high, yes to every negative you can think of to excuse not helping those in need - BUT what of those exact same arguments being used when it comes to the health, education, housing of the unemployed, the disabled and the sick of this country? - are you still willing to put forward those same arguments.

How many ditches, roads, railway lines, hospitals etc. etc. have the needy in this country provided?  As for those in the poorer countries not being willing to work, words fail me - most work far more hours, in far worse conditions and for far smaller rewards than anyone in this country.

As I suggested in my earlier posts there really are only two viable solutions for reducing the number of people arriving to settle in the West - help to finance the development of the third world so they no longer want to come or make the West a 'fortress' so as they physically can't - the first is incredibly expensive in terms of the living standards of those in the West, the second expensive in financial, moral, and freedom terms.

Immigration will continue whether you or I like it and the resources of the West will be tested in exactly the same way that parts of the UK has become overpopulated in regards to housing, schools and medical care - not due to overseas immigration but immigration from within the UK by those moving to where the jobs are.  England as a whole has an average of 353 people per square kilometer, the area around Gatwick has 2423, eight times the average.  Kensington and Chelsea show an even greater disparity at around 40 times the average density, Tower Hamlets the same.

People living in those areas didn't build most of the infrastructure nor the housing nor provide the jobs - that was largely done by earlier generations over a long period of time during which millions died due to warfare, famine and sickness whilst mostly living in poverty at a standard comparable to many in the third world today.  If these areas are attractive to our own citizens then it is hardly surprising they are even more attractive to citizens of the third world.

I have no doubt that in less than ten generations much of the third world will have caught up or overtaken the West in economic terms, Brazil and China much earlier.  Without our help though the cost in simple terms of humanity will be huge and may well have a catastrophic impact on the West.