Best,
At his peak, Jimmy Bakker had gold bathroom fixtures and air-conditioned dog houses. How many starving Children in Africa, South America, Asia, and on Indian Reservations here in the US could those extravagances have helped?
But what if he had donated every dollar above what he needed for a modest existence? Would it have made a substantial difference?
No.
The problem is much more complicated than that. The problem of dying kids in Third World Countries is a matter of superstition, culture, tribalism, bad traditions, suspicion, poor sanitation regarding water and wastewater,poverty, misogyny, tyranny, theocracy, and other ailments of the human condition. It is not our position to enforce enlightenment onto anyone. We are privileged to offer it, but that's where it should end.
The Bush Doctrine of imposing democracy and capitalism onto peoples who actively reject it is asinine. Yet, it endures.
Go figure.
DF