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Awesome, 3 months worth of food. Huge difference that will make.
UK to donate £38 million to Ethiopa.
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Should invest in a sterilisation policy for that area of the world until they sort themselves out..but they all end up here anyhow.
So 2 hours of our daily borrowing buys 3 months food? Sounds like a great deal to me.
Why are people so incapable of grasping the fact that stopping these small amounts would have pretty much zero impact on the spending crisis caused by the previous administration?
Why are people so incapable of grasping the fact that stopping these small amounts would have pretty much zero impact on the spending crisis caused by the previous administration?
Actually given the poor infrastructure, lack of modern farming in many areas, irrigation, water reclamation, basic health care, education, deforestation, Western and Chinese control of the lucrative export commodities such as Coffee and the list goes on, manpower is one of their few locally available assets.
Maybe if the global wealth was distributed in a more proportional way and huge and comprehensive investment and rebuilding of African Nations was forthcoming then we may have an African continent that is more productive and self-sufficient in the future.
Also Ethiopia has come a long way since the 1980's famines and this money will avert a crisis becoming a disaster.
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Could say the same about the UK!
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I agree. Look after yourself until you have enough to safely give away to help... With all the cutbacks and VAT rises we clearly do not. It's quite a large sum of money this.
Then again the UK could be run a lot more efficiently anyway, lots of money is being wasted.
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If you read the article, it says we have made the donation and requested other nations make similar donations to avoid a disaster.
No fault of its own.... whose fault is it then?
Every country has enough to sustain itself, Africa as a continent wanted European countries out so they could manage themselves..... errr so why are they now clamouring for handouts every other week?
People moan that we have job seekers who are sponging... well look at Africa, thats a whole continent of spongers.
As harsh as it sounds, Britain first, second and last to me. Thats not being racist, its a case of my tax money not being wasted elsewhere, id rather a homeless person was given a home, or an alcoholic a chance at coming off the booze, hospitals given the best equipment to save lives, research labs setup to finally cure cancer or blindness etc ... OR our war vets' having dignity for the rest of their lives.
Charity is for Africa seeing as its useless... if you want to give then so be it, but dont waste my money on them.
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Feeding 1.3 million people is a waste of money?
I'd rather see our country give a £1billion in aid for food and clean water to Ethiopia than I would rather see our country give £1billion to Greece.
So as its only £38m, a relatively tiny figure in comparison to the bailouts Greece is getting, I'm happy to see our government try to see a humanitarian disaster avoided.
So as its only £38m, a relatively tiny figure in comparison to the bailouts Greece is getting, I'm happy to see our government try to see a humanitarian disaster avoided.
To me, yes it is - unless its charity money, then so be it. But taxpayers money is a no-no.
I know my opinion is of the minority but its how I feel and will always do so towards those nations.
I look at some of the places ive been lucky enough to go on holiday to, not rich nations by any means but the people just get on with it. They make the best of their land and opportunities.
Ethiopians, what do they do? Every year they are having a famine, every year the cases of disease increase... every year they have more and more children - they dont want to help themselves it seems, some maybe yes, but the majority are happy being tribal, which will never be enough for them to sustain themselves.
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We're all entitled to our own views.
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They don't have the infrastructure to harness whatever natural resources they have. The best they can do at the moment is work in agriculture, which depends entirely on rainfall. They can't afford to pump water everywhere like we do so a lot of their irrigation comes from harnessed rain or wells. No rain = No Crops = No income. It's not their fault if it doesn't rain enough and crops fail.
It's already been mentioned in this thread but one of the things they can produce easily is workers, so they will continue to have more kids in order to have a larger workforce and a larger income to help themselves.
Most of them are happy to remain 'tribal' because they have no alternative.
Why are you expressing such strong opinions on things you clearly don't remotely understand?
That's a ridiculous suggestion Morgoth.
We'd have millions of zombiethiopians to deal with then!
I do understand, I know you probably watched a few Lenny Henry films so are an expert.. or maybe you have shaken the odd tin in the street asking for spare change for us to save Africa
Why dont you actually contribute to the thread, rather than posting something so remotely pointless? Ive expressed my opinion, ill stick by it no matter what anyone else says - infact im going to go bin some food I bought today because ... well I can
It does indeed sound harsh. Despite all our debt, we are still a very rich nation. I certainly understand your argument that it shouldn't be tax money spent on international charities, because then you are forcing tax payers to donate against their will. However, I think most of those tax payers don't mind but if left to their own, wouldn't voluntarily donate. I suspect (and hope) those such as yourself that do mind, are in the minority, and therefore it is justifiable.
£38 million is nothing in the grand scheme of things - if the OP wants to winge then winge about giving aid to India whilst their government spends billions on a space program.
I'm certainly not going to begrudge giving a very poor African country a few million tbh... Incidentally this sort of aid, helping to prevent humanitarian disasters, also helps us. Whilst aid isn't going to solve all their problems turning our back on these countries would simply make things worse, you'd have more conflict, more people trying to seek refuge in developed countries etc... its in our interests to help.
I'm certainly not going to begrudge giving a very poor African country a few million tbh... Incidentally this sort of aid, helping to prevent humanitarian disasters, also helps us. Whilst aid isn't going to solve all their problems turning our back on these countries would simply make things worse, you'd have more conflict, more people trying to seek refuge in developed countries etc... its in our interests to help.