Giving Away Foreign Aid to Africa is a Good Idea

mm-hmm "However, the government should not have such a fund in its budget, because as I said earlier, a proper government governs its own people, and does not support an entirely separate people" Theres no reason why aid to Africa throws off U.S. isolationism. This was out the window as of World War 1, the US gets involved in other places. It is what it is. Whether we let the people of Africa die or not, the US will have influence around the entire world. However, aid to Africa actually benefits everyday citizens. The US is the world hegemon and tells the world what to do. When the US gets involved in humanitarian efforts, our image is made better. The terrorist problems going on in the middle east is because of hate of Americans due to our hegemony. When we increase our soft power with these humanitarian efforts we halt the chance of another terrorist attack on American soil because of the newly converted African terrorists. This is a definite issue, terrorist organizations are already recruiting in Africa. Not only this, but we have to have influence in the region being that China could easily control most of Africa in the not too far off future. Aid to Africa needs to be done and a foreign policy budget is inevitable. "However, nobody will buy his crop, because of food being sent to Africa, and the farmed crop becomes useless" Even if you believe you won the argument saying food becomes useless, at least there is the crop for the farmer and his family to eat. The bottom line is that without taking away disease they will never be able to farm for themselves. In the world that we give no aid at all they will still die of disease and starve to death because theres no food on the market. At least with this directed aid we are able to allow them to survive on their own. "What I'm saying is that the UN is known to mess up, and sooner or later, this will become one of those messed-up projects. And an entire continent will be shattered by it." You have no warrant to make this claim. I also showed how US action has been successful, the UN, WHO, and other countries have all done things successfully in Africa meaning that aid can work. Warrant this argument and don't make empty claims. "In that case, we aren't really giving away aid. We are buying rights to their oil with money. As this is no longer aid being "given away", it becomes irrelevant to this debate" You miss the point. The point is that the use of aid is the only way to win the hearts of the African people, thus win rights to their oil. Meaning aid is a good idea because it leads to oil in the future. "Exactly. This quote wins me the debate." haha no. i've proven countless methods of aid to be effective. the round shouldnt be evaluated based on monetary aid and only monetary aid. "If only the money actually got to where it was intended to go..." Building a house with your own two hands isnt monetary aid that the government can horde. Neither is paying an individual teacher to teach children in Africa. The government isnt going to horde a bunch of condoms and even if they do, the high government officials are bound to use them. At least AIDs wont spread in the government. haha. Building a family planning center with American workers cant be taken by the government. When we pass out ITNS (insecticide treated nets) to African people, it gets to them and this is empirically proven. By providing the individuals in Africa we get away from their dependence for water on the government. The government cant seize a well that Americans built. This well is forever there and a source of water for a long time. All of these methods can work. Even if 1 can work i have proven that sometimes aid can be good, this is all that matters. "The fact is, the aid just put an entrepreneur out of business, and plunged 150 people into unemployment and poverty. When the UN is the only supplier of nets to Africa, Africa no longer knows how to make nets; thus, they just forgot one of the most important aspects of their survival, and now rely on the UN. Africa's foreign dependence is dangerous. Now, I'd be able to refute your argument about ITN dealers, but I don't have a clue what ITN is supposed to stand for. And what exactly is this "voucher" system that you speak of?" Not if we used the voucher system. An ITN would be an insecticide treated net that they put over their beds at night so mosquitos cant get to them. The voucher system would ensure the bednets are still made in africa and there is no dependence at all. "Aid can be good, but the majority of it, or the majority of what can actually be said to be free foreign aid, is bad. Thus, giving away foreign aid to Africa is a bad idea." Being that I, a 16 year old kid from Fresno California, can point out multiple ways that would work and help the african people immensely means that it doesnt take too much intelligence to know that we can find ways to actually benefit africa. Of course there are things that we can do that will backfire, but that is true everywhere. Congress will pick the ways that are sure to work, or close to it. That would be like the resolution says "helping children is a good thing" and you arguing "giving kids weed to smoke isnt good, therefore i have proven 1 way that helping children is not good so i win".