Giving Away Foreign Aid to Africa is a Good Idea

"We assume were talking about US aid. The aid can come from the hearts of the citizens, therefore government involvement becomes irrelevant. The government has been able to help out in the past and can help out in the future. That is a fact here today. These theoretical arguments he brings up and proven false empirically." Well, the U.S. is the only country we've talked about so far. And by "citizens", if you aren't talking about the U.S., the only other place we've mentioned is Africa, and that would be domestic aid, not foreign aid. And I don't even understand your sentence fragment at the end. "Subsistence farming- No. I'm saying we can keep them alive, away from disease, therefore they can farm. If we dont, they will get sick and are not be able to farm. This has been proven to be true. This argument goes completely conceded and I win because of it. I have proven that helping fight disease in the country is good." It has not gone completely conceded; we were just arguing it last round. Additionally, Africa is overpopulated right now, and maybe a huge bunch of their population should die off, just to prevent too much overpopulation. "UN fails- This doesnt mean that aid in theory is bad. Not only that, they may have failed on other instances but i have shown that they have done good things for africa in the past. This went unanswered." It didn't go unanswered. You asked for a reason why I can say that the UN will fail, and in addition to the polio vaccine failure, I cited three other failures. It's a bad idea to do something if the failures outweigh the success. "Bidding war- It is aid, even if it is just for selfish reasons. This is a good thing that comes because of the aid we give. On top of the increase in soft power around the world that went unanswered. The soft power we gain is also a positive to giving aid and proves giving aid is a good idea, if even for no other reason. I win on this dropped argument alone." I didn't drop this argument, either. I accused it of not being given away; we are trying to get their government to give us oil in exchange for aid. This is like India "'their gov gets more incompetent'- haha thats a big assumption.. Perhaps we keep alive the citizens who then have the power to overthrow their suppressive governments. It's not that the African governments are stupid as you seem to think.. But the governments are these suppressive machines that dont care about their citizens and hold them down so that they remain in power. Giving power back to the people is the only way to overthrow these governments." It is not just a large assumption. I proved that their government becomes lazy and corrupt because of aid, and you didn't complain, so we agreed. And pushing more aid isn't helping the people gain power, because the government gets a large chunk of the aid, and they're still making laws, whether they're incompetent or not. Any government gets overthrown eventually, but not if they're continuously supplied with money by foreign nations that aren't even aware of what they're doing. "Voucher system- Is exactly what it sounds like. We give out vouchers to a bunch of people in Africa which allows them to redeem an ITN with only the voucher in return. The ITN company then gives the vouchers to the US representative that is in the area who pays the African company the money that each voucher is worth. This way the African company still makes the nets and money so that they keep all the benefits and we dont just flood the country with nets. The reason ITNs arent in africa without them being sent is because the citizens cant afford them. Giving them the vouchers allows them to get the nets that are proven to save their lives." Okay. Now, I don't see that system actually being used at all, and googling (voucher Africa) (not in quotes or parentheses) only shows me some phone call vouchers and airplane vouchers. Even if this were in effect, they'd still be relying on us for their safety, and foreign reliance is something that everybody wants to avoid. In conclusion, every form of aid to Africa has a huge downfall that only harms the African economy or American economy, and it is NOT a good idea to send foreign aid to Africa. "Sure, monetary aid can be bad." Vote CON. Thank you for your time.