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**Zebrabitch** · 03-08-2010, 10:06 PM

Foreign investment is not the same thing as handouts.

Take those green houses in the OP. The government got money for the lease, I bet you most of the constuction is being done via local labor (even if the technical stuff isn't) and they added 1,000 steady jobs to the local economy not to mention any taxes on the buisness. That is investment.

Dropping off bags or rice so that the poor can cling on to life for another year with nothing to show for it is entirely different.

03-08-2010, 10:06 PM	#14
Zebrabitch Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 634 Senior Member	Foreign investment is not the same thing as handouts. Take those green houses in the OP. The government got money for the lease, I bet you most of the constuction is being done via local labor (even if the technical stuff isn't) and they added 1,000 steady jobs to the local economy not to mention any taxes on the buisness. That is investment. Dropping off bags or rice so that the poor can cling on to life for another year with nothing to show for it is entirely different.
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