These are not quite handouts.   It is a way of also getting rid of our waste management problem. I am not talking about sending our garbage to other lands. But good, working equipment, such as hospitals and universities stockpile. And if some stuff does not work, and it is being sent to a country, say Mexico, which has a good number of mechanics, they can strip it and use the steel and wire for other things. Or fix it if it is broken. Amend the wiring for their country. One thing we need, in addition to going metric here, is a worldwide electrial system. Ours of course. Refrigerators are so awesome. Not just for food, but the chain of refrigeration for vaccines and medicines. And one story I saw on the telly showed going to a landfill, finding 17 or so old refrigerators, plugging them in, and they all worked. I was in Czechoslovakia when they were changing rapidly, and they would have been so helped with more refrigeration and just ways to cover food. Think of what we could do just with plastic bags we are drowning in. Or others could do. COver their water jugs in Africa so they don't get guiniea worm. Simple as that. Mormons of course do a great job getting stuff overseas. Every little church used to have a mission barrel a hundred years ago. Why can't we do that now?

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