I Told You So

What a hopeful piece of economic news coming out of Africa. Read here how some Sudanese locals have engineered their own survival. Even the UN seems to be playing a positive role for once. This is the kind of lifting-oneself-up-by-the-bootstraps of which I think Africa is capable if we will only let them.



Photo by the article's author AP journalist Mohamed Osman.

This contrasts to the politically correct wisdom being thrown out by pop singer cum politicians with the aid of the Time Magazine et al. megaphone machine, claiming that if we only threw more money at poverty the problems would disappear. See my sarcasm here and here.