The US Government should substantially increase investment within the African Continent.

Investment 1: Further investment of Humanitarian AidContention 1: Sub Saharan Africa has one of the largest statistics of extreme poverty in the world.[1]Contention 2: European countries like Britain, France, and the Netherlands have a huge amount of financial investments in Africa.[2] [3] [4]Contention 3: Unrest disrupts trades, and the flow of raw materials from Europe to the US is hindered by it. Contention 4: People who are happy and fed are less likely to cause unrest.Resolution 1The US should invest more time and effort into humanitarian aid, to secure the flow of globalization, and protect the African nations from hindering capitalism. This can be achieved by refocusing current US agencies like the Peace Corps and Africom to help troubled nations, in order to secure economic security and African development.Investment 2: Further Investment of Military PresenseContention 1: The US has one base in all of sub-saharan Africa. [5]Contention 2: US essential shipping regions in the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Aden are attacked by Somali Pirates.Contention 3: Africom has no place to set up shop in Africa.Contention 4: US, British, and Arab ships are often attacked by terrorists or pirates passing through these African regions and charged ransom. [6]Contention 5: The US has no naval docks able to quickly deploy to situations in Africa.Resolution 2The US should invest more into securing bases and ending piracy within Africa. Costly mobilizations and a lack of naval presense leaves us vunerable to two of the largest continental coastlines. The USFG should focus on raising money for Africom and bases by selling off posts in Europe and Thailand, reduce funding for less essential military programs like the NSA, and improving relations with local leaders.Investment 3: Further Investment in Africa's Growing Markets. Contention 1: African countries have the fastest growing GDP's in the world after China. [7]Contention 2: Several countries such as France, China, Arabia, Britain, and Holland have made large investments within Africa's markets. Contention 3: Most of America's investments are in South America, even though certain African markets have far outgrown many industries. [8]Contention 4: America only has corporate influence in Liberia, and a few small land sectors within other countries. [9]Contention 5: America is the most behind among the GP's in the scramble for African market investment.Resolution 3 Investing more into trade, markets, and encouraging corporate interaction among African business men. Increasing the budget of the SEC and ITA, and then filing the increased budget money into African trade and development, will surely produce extreme amounts of revenues. Corporations like Firestone have already been immensely successful in making use of Africa's cheap labor and natural resources.[1] http://s.wsj.net...[2] http://www.britishafrican.org...[3] http://www.spiegel.de...[4] http://www.irinnews.org...[5] http://www.bbc.com...[6] http://www.ibtimes.com...[7] http://www.economist.com...[8] http://www.latia.org...[9] http://www.firestonenaturalrubber.com...