Day 126: Niger

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/ng.html

Discuss.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Too bad it's so poor. US needs to modernize and then annex it.

Why would we "need" to do this?

Africa is a disaster.  No American money should be wasted on it, especially through "modernization".  That'd cost billions, easily.  The only was we should spend money on Africa is to maybe airlift condoms to people, but chances are they wouldn't know what to do with them.  So even that'd be a waste of resources.

For some reason MasterJedi wants to annex pretty much every other single country in the world.

Despite the rather obvious facts that:

1-This would eventually result in the United States being ruled by the rest of the world rather than vice-versa
2-This would result in a world government, exactly the type of thing conservatives tend to be against

This also doesn't even take into account the disastorous effects it'd have th economy, note the economic woes Germany had after reunification, and East Germany was only about a third the size of West Germany and it's per capita income was about 1/4 of West Germany's. Now imagine the US annexing a bunch of third world countries with equal population to the US and a per capita income of less than 1/10 of the US's.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

At least the pronounciation helps distinguish it from Nigeria. Residents of it are called Nigeriens as opposed to Nigerians, which helps in text but not spoken. In fact, something that most people don't realize even though they do it every day, is that there really isn't any difference at all in pronounciation of unstressed vowels. All of the following words have the unstressed syllables in them usually pronounced the same way, despite the different letters, and the fact people usually don't realize this: alone, sofa, system, easily, gallop, circus, banana, collect. Even though there is theoretically a "correct" way to pronounce them where they do sound different, this hardly ever happens in casual conversation.