Why do we get these mountains of clothes? No one is freezing here.

There are so many choice quotes in this article you have to read all of them (Via Wizbang):

Local farmers may as well put down their hoes right away; no one can compete with the UN's World Food Program.

AIDS is big business, maybe Africa's biggest business. There's nothing else that can generate as much aid money as shocking figures on AIDS.

The late tyrant of the Central African Republic, Jean Bedel Bokassa, cynically summed it up by saying: "The French government pays for everything in our country. We ask the French for money. We get it, and then we waste it."

... and they flood our markets with that stuff. We can buy these donated clothes cheaply at our so-called Mitumba markets. There are Germans who spend a few dollars to get used Bayern Munich or Werder Bremen jerseys, in other words, clothes that that some German kids sent to Africa for a good cause. After buying
these jerseys, they auction them off at Ebay and send them back to Germany -- for three times the price.

Why do we get these mountains of clothes? No one is freezing here.