Recommended Reading

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man is a compelling, stunning book that will entirely change the way you look at how our country does business - especially regarding foreign "aid". There is one passage that sums it all up for me (p180):

Today, we still have slave traders. They no longer find it necessary to march into the forests of Africa looking for prime specimens who will bring top dollar on the auction blocks in Charleston, Caragena, and Havana. They simply recruit desperate people and build a fatory to produce the jackets, blue jeans, tennis shoes, automobile parts, computer components, and thousands of other items they can sell in the markets of thier own choosing. Or they may elect not even to own the factory themselves; instead they hire a local businessman to do all thier dirty work for them.