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From: franka@hercules.UUCP (Frank Adrien)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: poor starving people
Message-ID: <317@hercules.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 27-Nov-84 11:28:58 EST
Article-I.D.: hercules.317
Posted: Tue Nov 27 11:28:58 1984
Date-Received: Thu, 29-Nov-84 03:35:02 EST
References: <642@amd.UUCP>
Reply-To: franka@hercules.UUCP (Frank Adrien)
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In article <642@amd.UUCP> phil@amd.UUCP (Phil Ngai) writes:
>I feel like starting a flame here.
>
>BACKGROUND
>Many people are starving in Ethiopia. Many countries are giving food aid
>and this cause has made even the USA and the USSR temporarily forget their
>differences and work together to help get food to the needy. It still isn't
>enough, Ethiopia says it has only half of what it needs to prevent a
>famine. Meanwhile the US government pays farmers not to produce to keep
>prices up.
>
>But that's not what I want to flame about. Are the United States and other
>countries expected to continually bail out countries which can't feed
>themselves? I think there must be too many people living in Ethiopia.
>I think there probably isn't any birth control there.
>
>PROPOSAL
>The United States should send more food to Ethiopia, but all recipients
>must consent to sterilization.
>
>(go on, flame me, that's what I want!)
>-- 
> This may not even represent my opinion, much less AMD's.
>
> Phil Ngai (408) 749-5720
> UUCP: {decwrl,ihnp4,allegra}!amdcad!phil
> ARPA: amdcad!phil@decwrl.ARPA

	Right on, Phil!!! I know a doctor who refuses to contribute to these
organizations because he says that all they do is prolong suffering, rather
than solve the problem.

				From the maniacal mind of
					Frank Adrian
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