Congo Has A Real Stimulus Plan!!!

[twyacht]

How to stimulate the economy.  For Congo this is really big!!!

http://www.theonion.com/content/video/congo_approves_economic_stimulus

 

[tombogan03884]

The exports have already begun,

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100109/ap_on_sp_so_ne/soc_togo_bus_attacked

CABINDA, Angola – Togo's national soccer team, devastated by a shooting attack on its bus that killed at least three people, withdrew from the African Cup of Nations on Saturday.

The bus was in Angola about six miles from the border of Congo when the gunfire began. When the ambush ended, 30 minutes later, the driver was dead and the team's assistant coach and spokesman were mortally wounded. It was not immediately clear if the convoy was targeted. The attackers fled back into Congo after the ambush, which also left at least eight players gravely injured before Angolan forces intervened, officials said.

[fightingquaker13]

Congo has had that stimulus plan in place for a while. I had a Congolese student, a very good natured, bright kid. His dad was a colonel in the army and trying to deal with the Rawandan sponsored invasion to the East and the Hutu rebels that were wrecking havoc (and still are). Before graduation, I and another prof asked if he wanted to stay here. We could very easily have gotten him an internship that would have given him another 2 years on his student visa, and possibly a job as an instructor (he was scary good at math) that would have led to a green card. It all would have been legal and above board.  Yet he chose to go home to "put on a uniform and die" as he put it because it was his country. A noble principle, but a damn waste of talent for a country that hasn't been worth a damn since the first Belgian showed up.
FQ13