Fishing

"Give a man a fish and he eats for a day, teach him to fish and he eats forever."

Fucking bullshit!

This is that simple minded World Vision, bleeding heart, fucking stupidity that brings out my goddamn apoplexy . Go into a poor country and teach some guy to fish. Whoopy! He can go on a nice fishing holiday to the fucking Bahamas when he becomes a fucking millionaire in the Democratic Republic of the Genocidal Maniacs National Lottery.
It doesn't fucking matter that this guy's family is only going to eat until some hungry son of a bitch who doesn't know how to fish kills him for his rod. No one thinks about the fact that this man used to be the only basket maker in his village, and he never got round to teaching his son how to weave because he discovered fishing, which bought him more HIV positive whores. Now he's ruined most of the baskets with rotting fish, and the village can't store grain for their cows during the winter, so they can't trade with the other villages who need meat in the summer because their cows got hit by foot and mouth. Which means they don't get any extremely high quality tobacco to trade with the Westerner, so they don't get any money to improve the village's infrastructure and improve their quality of life.
They can't store the grain any more so they have to expand the pasture for the cows, felling trees and destroying the grass land. The soil can't hold all the water anymore, creating puddles and swamps for mosquitoes and malaria, which kills the young and the elderly. The dead elderly can't teach the dying young how to grow maze any longer so they all begin to starve.
The starving people become violent, blaming other villages for their problems. Feuds turn into wars, and the Western media takes notice. Bleeding hearts rush to bring food and medicine which keeps those of fighting age alive, feeding the ever more brutal armies that are funded by the only thing left to them. Diamonds.
Not even the greatest bleeding heart in London or Sydney can say no to shiny carbon, twinkling on her finger.

So fuck you Tim Costello and every bleeding heart motherfucker like you. You fund and fuel the engine of destruction to further your own egos. Fuck all of you Mother-Fucking-Teresa, psychopathic, image driven Branjelina "do-gooders." If you want to be a real fucking hero and help poor people, stop voting for inverventionist leaders and allowing your parliments to pass those paradoxial "Free Trade Agreements" which forcebly divert the productive capacity of poor people away from living, to feeding our Western greed.

We aren't responsible for the lives of people far away, or even next door. We're responsible for the consequences of our actions. You really should think those through the next time you send off that tax deductable donation.