G8 Summit. A Multi-Million Dollar Meeting and for what?

So this G8 Summit was supposed to be used to talk about debt and trade in Africa and the world wide environment.

I don't know where to begin. I guess I'll start with debt and trade in Africa. First of all Africa has already paid for its debts with the millions of lives taken during the slave trade. Second, I somehow doubt a couple days of chit-chat cut short by yet another bomb in the United Kingdom is going to help as much as you'd think. Perhaps the $37 million plus spent on the summit could have been used to help pay debt.
Interesting thing is 18 countries were relieved of their debt. Even more interesting is they were all countries who didn't have the means to pay the interest on their debt anyway. Oh goody you removed the debt from people who weren't going to pay. Big whoop.

The summit is to adopt a watered-down declaration avoiding any concrete steps like setting targets or timetables for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. This couldn't have been done over the phone? Why not just get a cheap $20 camera, put it on the top of your computer and go to a chat room?

Good job guys. I guess the saying "talk is cheap" has no place in here, huh? Good Night. Whatever