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By: ruth

ruth — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 10:12:34 +0000

I remember reading a similar story (in the 1980s I think), about an American child, the eldest son of an Army family, whose move back to an American Army base from Germany had been so mismanaged, that the family had ended up penniless, while the father was posted faraway overseas. The eldest son of the family with several siblings, he had become so upset by his mother’s distress at the situation, that he hanged himself ‘so there was one less mouth to feed’.
The mother received much of the blame for allowing her son to see her distress and to feel responsible for relieving it.
The story haunted me for years.

By: sabrina

sabrina — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 14:41:40 +0000

That picture is haunting me. That is the most horribly depressed child I have ever seen in my life. Oh, what the hell, this is hideous. I don’t want to debate global this or that, I desperately want a time machine, I want to go back and take care of her, I want to keep her from dying this way.

Sorry, I’ve got nothing intelligent to say…but thank you for posting this…it’s not something I will ever forget.

By: lady macleod

lady macleod — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 20:55:28 +0000

A sad tale indeed; and I fear the reasons for blame make a long list.

By: Rupert

Rupert — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 13:40:51 +0000

It’s quite a leap to blame the death of a child in the Philippines on greedy French farmers…the Philippines has been ill served by its political leaders ever since it was a Spanish colony in the 16th century and then later fell in American hands. Since independence in 1946 its governments have been either corrupt or incompetent. It doesn’t help that most of the population is Roman Catholic, which puts procreation before contraception. As for globalisation – rather than helping the country it may in fact be hindering its growth – as many outsourcing jobs are going instead to China or India. How greedy are French farmers? Clearly there are some who get huge subsidies they don’t deserve. But take the wine growers here in the Languedoc. True, much of the wine they make is undrinkable. But if the fields weren’t covered in vines they would either be a scrubby fire hazard, or covered in shitty pink houses!

By: Greg Taylor

Greg Taylor — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 09:06:10 +0000

A very sad tale – but one that highlights how important it is that we resist the selfish complaints of greedy French farmers, and do all we can to facilitate the globalisation of trade. The poor in countries like the Philippines will only be able to lift themselves out of poverty quickly if we all open our markets to Filipino goods and services.