According to liberals, the world’s poor are poor because of white oppression/discrimination/racism/sexism/imperialism/colonialism. I’d rather agree with the cool economist, Walter Williams:
Rank countries along a continuum according to whether they are closer to being free-market economies or whether they’re closer to socialist or planned economies. Then, rank countries by per-capita income. We will find a general, not perfect, pattern whereby those countries having a larger free-market sector produce a higher standard of living for their citizens than those at the socialist end of the continuum….
[C]itizens of countries with market economies are not only richer, but they tend to enjoy a greater measure of human-rights protections.
Have you ever had the displeasure of seeing radical leftists protesting against alleged “human rights violations” committed by the United States as if this were Iraq or Zimbabwe? Speaking of Zimbabwe:
Once a food-exporting country, Zimbabwe stands on the brink of starvation. Just recently, President Robert Mugabe declared that he’s going to nationalize all the farmland. You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to figure out that the consequence will be to exacerbate Zimbabwe’s food problems. Sierra Leone, rich in minerals, especially diamonds, with highly fertile land and home to the best port site in West Africa, has declined into a condition of utter despair. It’s a similar story in nearly all of south-of-Sahara Africa. Its people are generally worse off now than they were during colonialism both in terms of standard of living and human-rights protections.
My advice to Americans: stay in America.
