Bill Mitchell: Some will rob you with a six-gun, and some with a fountain pen

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How Haiti supports us:
"In sub-Saharan Africa alone some 15,000 children die every day from poverty-related diseases. Yet the governments are required to pay out some $US30 million a day to the World Bank, IMF, and rich creditor nations. For every $1 that's given to that region in aid, $1.50 goes out to cover debt repayments. (The author has) been thinking thinking about that in light of the current situation in Haiti..."

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Scott Baker is a Managing Editor & The Economics Editor at Opednews, and a former blogger for Huffington Post, Daily Kos, and Global Economic Intersection.

His anthology of updated Opednews articles "America is Not Broke" was published by Tayen Lane Publishing (March, 2015) and may be found here:
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Scott is a former and current President of Common Ground-NY (http://commongroundnyc.org/), a Geoist/Georgist activist group. He has written dozens of (more...)