Posted by Agung on Sunday, 11. October 1998 at 04:38 Bali Time:
In Reply to: Yes, YOUR Country posted by Arrogant Foreigner on Saturday, 10. October 1998 at 10:40 Bali Time:
Your comments are mean spirited and vile. Furthermore, for your information the IMF is not driven or controlled by Indonesia. The IMF is an ill managed international consortium of western countries managed to allow non western banks to offer loans they never should have offered in the first place, ultimately, in order to drive western based economies. It is akin to an international FDIC as in the U.S. Do you remember the savings and loan scandals of the 1980's?
Since the IMF was designed to stimulate Asian and other world trade, by guarantees, (should the waters get rough, i.e. insurance), it is totally inappropriate to consider payments by the IMF to those countries in need as charity or hand outs.
But what is most appalling is the ease in which you conjure up the image of people going hungry and begging for rice as a hopeful testiment to your ideology. That it sick, sick and evil, and I pray your belly never experiences the pain of raw hunger.