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Originally Posted by RockAustin
It's just another way America use their extreme capitalism to control the world. Suppress developing countries, extort those with no money, all the while building up power and claiming divine right to kill anything that doesn't conform or appears to be a threat.
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Don't confuse private individuals and companies with "America". There are plenty of people using "extreme capitalism" in a philanthropic and generous manner to the people of Africa (Bill Gates, anyone?). Anyway, the people who loaned the money and provided the services didn't do so to be good democrats, they did it to earn a living.
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Originally Posted by RockAustin
Why let people grow rich from the misfortune of others? Not just one or two people either, whole countries.
That is not democracy. Democracy has an equal degree of compassion associated with it.
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Look at the countries that racked up these debts-Peru, Zambia, Argentina, Democratic Republic of Congo/Zaire...hardly bastions of democracy at the time these debts were created, were they? The government of America does what's right and fair for its own people (or at least it's supposed to). They are not answerable to or beholden to any other nation. Why should they be?