The Hypnotist
Smash Lord
Well, this is my first thread for the debate hall so here goes nothing. I've decided to take a resolution from the National Forensics League's policy debate form seeing that I am an honor's member.
Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially increase its public health assistance to Sub-Saharan Africa.
I will be arguing aganist the resolution for several reasons. First, the United States have too many things on their agenda, and this simply is not a priority. We are in trillions of dollars of debt as it is, we cannot afford to just omit funds without reciving something tangible in return. We already give countries within Sub-Saharan hundreds of millions of dollars, and a lot of that money is illegally moved towards corrupt dictators. Which is another reason we can't afford to substantially increase our assistance, it just doesn't help us at all, all it really does is hinders our economy. We need to invest in our economy. Our problems, our schools, out military, our roads, we come before others because it simply is none of out business. Seriously just to talk about college debt, the average graduate is in 10,000's of dollars of debt, if we wouldn't consider increaseing the assitance (possibly taking some away) we could pay for everyones college. As sad as Africa'a health crisis is, we cannot afford to help any more then we are now, which is very significant. If anything the United States should substantially decrease it's public health assistance to Sub-Saharan Africa. Imagine what we could do if we had hundereds of millions of additional dollars put into out public schools. The more we put into the United States the more we'll get out of it. When we our out of the War, out of debt, and our problems significantly decrease then possibly we can increase out health assistance towards Sub-Saharan but until then it simply is not a priority. In conclusion the United States should not increase its public health assistance to Sub-Saharan Africa because not only is it not a priority, it hinders our economy, and we already support Sub-Saharan Africa to a great extend by giving them millions and millions of dollars.
Raw Statistics:
Total FY 2006 U.S. Government (USG) Assistance to the Horn of Africa Complex Emergency $554,547,650
Numbers At A Glance (Amount Of People Effected)
Djibouti 88,0000 Horn of Africa CAP April 7, 2006
Ethiopia 2.8 million Government of Ethiopia's Food Security Coordination Bureau, September 2006
Kenya 2.95 million Kenya Food Security Steering Group, September 2006
Somalia 1.8 million U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization's (FAO) Food Security Analysis Unit – Somalia (FSAU), September 2006
United States National Debt = $7,782,816,546,352.29
Average college graduate is still in $18,000 dollars of debt.
Sources:
http://www.usaid.gov/locations/sub-saharan_africa/horn/
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/04/08/opinion/main686839.shtml
http://articles.moneycentral.msn.co...CollegeCosts/HowMuchCollegeDebtIsTooMuch.aspx
Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially increase its public health assistance to Sub-Saharan Africa.
I will be arguing aganist the resolution for several reasons. First, the United States have too many things on their agenda, and this simply is not a priority. We are in trillions of dollars of debt as it is, we cannot afford to just omit funds without reciving something tangible in return. We already give countries within Sub-Saharan hundreds of millions of dollars, and a lot of that money is illegally moved towards corrupt dictators. Which is another reason we can't afford to substantially increase our assistance, it just doesn't help us at all, all it really does is hinders our economy. We need to invest in our economy. Our problems, our schools, out military, our roads, we come before others because it simply is none of out business. Seriously just to talk about college debt, the average graduate is in 10,000's of dollars of debt, if we wouldn't consider increaseing the assitance (possibly taking some away) we could pay for everyones college. As sad as Africa'a health crisis is, we cannot afford to help any more then we are now, which is very significant. If anything the United States should substantially decrease it's public health assistance to Sub-Saharan Africa. Imagine what we could do if we had hundereds of millions of additional dollars put into out public schools. The more we put into the United States the more we'll get out of it. When we our out of the War, out of debt, and our problems significantly decrease then possibly we can increase out health assistance towards Sub-Saharan but until then it simply is not a priority. In conclusion the United States should not increase its public health assistance to Sub-Saharan Africa because not only is it not a priority, it hinders our economy, and we already support Sub-Saharan Africa to a great extend by giving them millions and millions of dollars.
Raw Statistics:
Total FY 2006 U.S. Government (USG) Assistance to the Horn of Africa Complex Emergency $554,547,650
Numbers At A Glance (Amount Of People Effected)
Djibouti 88,0000 Horn of Africa CAP April 7, 2006
Ethiopia 2.8 million Government of Ethiopia's Food Security Coordination Bureau, September 2006
Kenya 2.95 million Kenya Food Security Steering Group, September 2006
Somalia 1.8 million U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization's (FAO) Food Security Analysis Unit – Somalia (FSAU), September 2006
United States National Debt = $7,782,816,546,352.29
Average college graduate is still in $18,000 dollars of debt.
Sources:
http://www.usaid.gov/locations/sub-saharan_africa/horn/
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/04/08/opinion/main686839.shtml
http://articles.moneycentral.msn.co...CollegeCosts/HowMuchCollegeDebtIsTooMuch.aspx
