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A cynic had defined aid as simply the system by which poor white people in rich countries gave money to rich black people in poor countries to put into swiss bank accounts.

-Wilbur Smith

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A Cynic Had Defined Aid As Simply

Wilbur Smith

A cynic had defined aid as simply the system by which poor white people in rich countries gave money to rich black people in poor countries to put into swiss bank accounts.

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To walk in money through the night crowd, protected by money, lulled by money, dulled by money, the crowd itself a money, the breath money, no least single object anywhere that is not money. money, money everywhere and still not enough! and then no money, or a little money, or less money, or more money but money always money. and if you have money, or you don't have money, it is the money that counts, and money makes money, but what makes money make money?

White people scare the crap out of me. i have never been attacked by a black person, never been evicted by a black person, never had my security deposit ripped off by a black landlord, never had a black landlord, never been pulled over by a black cop, never been sold a lemon by a black car salesman, never seen a black car salesman, never had a black person deny me a bank loan, never had a black person bury my movie, and i've never heard a black person say, 'we're going to eliminate ten thousand jobs here - have a nice day!'

I've never seen a sincere white man, not when it comes to helping black people. usually things like this are done by white people to benefit themselves. the white man's primary interest is not to elevate the thinking of black people, or to waken black people, or white people either. the white man is interested in the black man only to the extent that the black man is of use to him. the white man's interest is to make money, to exploit.

Almsgiving tends to perpetuate poverty; aid does away with it once and for all. almsgiving leaves a man just where he was before. aid restores him to society as an individual worthy of all respect and not as a man with a grievance. almsgiving is the generosity of the rich; social aid levels up social inequalities. charity separates the rich from the poor; aid raises the needy and sets him on the same level with the rich.

We're not going to beat barack obama with some guy who has swiss bank accounts, cayman island accounts, owns shares of goldman sachs while it forecloses on florida and is himself a stockholder in fannie mae and freddie mac while he tries to think the rest of us are too stupid to put the dots together to understand what this is all about.... people matter more than wall street.

Now, for romney to believe that somebody's grandmother is going to be so cut off she is going to self deport... he certainly shows no concern for the humanity of people who are already here... i think you have to live in worlds of swiss bank accounts and cayman island accounts and automatic $20 million a year income with no work to have some fantasy this far from reality.

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