It is sometimes hard to tell whether people are telling the truth, but
it's usually nigh impossible to work out whether people think they are
telling the truth. For instance, it's hard to tell whether a bunch of
economically illiterate aging rock stars really believe they can drag
people out of poverty by propping up their thieving and oppressive
governments.

They certainly sounded sincere enough as they cranked out memorable, if
rather tired, classic after classic in what has been hailed as the world's
largest rock-n-roll event - Live-8 - but rock-star are notoriously fickle,
and maybe they just started believing their own publicity material.

When there was trouble in the colonies, Queen Victoria would command 'send
a gun boat!' We don't do that any more, but the lefties seem to believe
that sending money off to darkest Africa will solve the problem. The
possibility that maybe the African nations are not capable of working out
the best thing to do with the money never occurs. The fact that the
problems of the Africans are primarily caused by the oppression by their
fellow Africans is unthinkable.

Any suggestion that guilt money given by bleeding heart collectivists in
hard-working first-world countries could possibly be used for anything
other than promoting the common good when it made the taxing trip to
darkest Africa is ignored. Just like the left refuse to accept that the
many of the black slaves sent to the USA were herded up and sold by black
slave traders. [Yes, gentle reader, 'black slave trader' refers to the
color of the trader here, not just to the color of the slave.] Oppression
seems to be a proud tradition which continues to this day in the world's
poorest continent.

So 20 years after the fabled and failed Live Aid concert (African poverty
is said to have increased since then), the rock stars are at it again. A
poverty-stricken continent has been transformed into a poverty stricken
continent of beggars (now with rich politicians), but this time Bob Geldof
says 'We don't want charity, we want justice!' Sir Bob didn't actually say
what justice was, but speaker Nelson Mandela gave a clue: 'Where there is
poverty there is no justice'. Ah - so justice is the new word for welfare?

The wrinkly rockers were a pretty sad bunch, but maybe, to their credit,
they are actually total cynical about the exercise, and merely see it as a
chance to relive the glory days, get their sagging mugs on international
TV, and get a new generation of fans to go out and buy their forgotten
records. There's one born every minute (and in Africa one dies every three
seconds). Capitalism comes in many forms - sometimes it's just disguised
as
collectivism.

When there was trouble in the colonies, Queen Victoria would command 'send
a gun boat!' We don't do that any more, but the lefties seem to believe
that sending money off to darkest Africa will solve the problem.

It is sometimes hard to tell whether people are telling the truth, but
it's usually nigh impossible to work out whether people think they are
telling the truth. For instance, it's hard to tell whether a bunch of
economically illiterate aging rock stars really believe they can drag
people out of poverty by propping up their thieving and oppressive
governments.

It is sometimes hard to tell whether people are telling the truth,

It is sometimes hard to tell whether people are telling the truth, but
it's usually nigh impossible to work out whether people think they are
telling the truth. For instance, it's hard to tell whether a bunch of
economically illiterate aging rock stars really believe they can drag
people out of poverty by propping up their thieving and oppressive
governments.

It is sometimes hard to tell whether people are telling the truth, but
it's usually nigh impossible to work out whether people think they are
telling the truth. For instance, it's hard to tell whether a bunch of
economically illiterate aging rock stars really believe they can drag
people out of poverty by propping up their thieving and oppressive
governments.