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Originally Posted by alphamale
Sickening, really sickening. Bono, and Bill and Melinda Gates.
Gates funded the Millennium Scholars Program, a billion dollar scholarship fund. What's the problem with that? White people need not apply. If you're a bright but impoverished white student - tough shit. That the courts allow state supported universities to have anything to do with such scholarships, or that such a foundation is tax privileged, is outrageous.
Bono is a person who goes around and gets western governments to screw their taxpayers by dumping billions of dollars into the disaster continent, africa, including AIDS projects that condemn millions of africans to death because of their PC methodology.
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You may not agree with the choices, but sickening? Please.
As far as Bono, IMHO the guy does publicity work for an important cause. Leaving aside the fact that you'd be surprised how little taxpayer money actually goes to Africa, the issue is largely one of scale and coordination. Western governments generally provide economic aid to the developing world in small, politically palatable, chunks. These small portions of aid are not enough to bootstrap the developing nations out of crushing poverty to the point where they can begin to grow their economies on their own, so of course that money just vanishes down a sinkhole. Bono's goal, essentially, is to popularize the cause of the developing countries to the point where aid packages large enough to get the job done (one estimate I've read is 134 billion dolars from the developed world to the developing world over the period from 2005-2016) are politically palatable in the West. You can question his effectiveness, and I personally don't think he's had a large enough impact to be person of the year, but his goal is both necessary and noble.