On 10/21/2009 03:13 PM, Lie Ryan wrote: > > ru...@yahoo.com wrote: >> >> On 10/21/2009 01:40 AM, Lie Ryan wrote: [...] >>> >>> As a metaphor, which one do you think is better in the long term: >>> >>> charities or microcredits? >> >> >> >> Both of course. Why on earth would anyone think there >> >> is a simple, single, best answer for complex problems? > > > > Nope, read again. On the *long term* (as I have stated in the question), > > microcredits is proven to be much more effective to solving poverty. In > > the short term, charities will have much quicker effect but not one that > > is lasting and in fact too much charities makes a lot more problems.
Uh, let's see, charity is no longer needed since micro- credits have been *proven* to eliminate their need. OK. Since we have now entered la-la land, I think I'll let myself out quietly by the back door... :-) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
