How is money being 'wasted'?
You may not agree with what it is being used for or who is benefiting but the money is all still there, we've not lost it, it's just going on its way round the global economy.
UK to donate £38 million to Ethiopa.
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How is money being 'wasted'?
You may not agree with what it is being used for or who is benefiting but the money is all still there, we've not lost it, it's just going on its way round the global economy.
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I guess that's true. It's not my strong point and I know the media hypes things but councils paying too much for certain services (I mean really silly prices), I can't think any of the top of my head.
I suppose in most cases it's UK companies that end up with the money so I guess like you say it goes and comes around...
Bit late for that
Are you for real? You make famine sound like something the Ethiopians do for fun.
As a developed nation surely we have a duty to help less privilaged people. Humanity is clearly as wasted on you as your precious taxes.
How can you justify the morality of letting people like that starve while we live in luxury? A few small sacrifices can save millions of lives, and yet you would allow those deaths because you believe that our luxury simply is not luxurious enough. You might aswell be signing their death warrant with attitudes like that.
As to the children dilemma, when most of them are at risk of dying before maturity, instead of having one child, you have many so that there's a higher chance that one of them will make it through. You have such a low income, that you have more children so that they can then work and bring in the income, which is still many times less than what you would see on JSA, to then provide for that family.
Instead of removing that small amount of aid to these suffering people, while we live in luxury, why not address the wastage of resources at home? The mismanagement of debts, the entitlement/welfare state, the causes and solution to crime, the attitudes of our society to suffering and the relative wealth of people in the world. And it wouldn't hurt to recognise these suffering people as human beings just like you. They have dreams, fears, moments of joy and sadness, they feel love, they grow old (if they're lucky) and get sick, just like you.
Take a moment to think about that as you go to bed in your warm, comfortable bed, with a roof over your head and a full belly in relatively good health, while millions of people are starving to death, and falling prey to illnesses we found cures for years ago. We have the abundance of resources on this planet to feed and clothe every man, woman and child, yet we choose not to. There is no morality in all of this. Only greed.
Im a big believer of equality and nobody deserves a better lifestyle than anyone else..... HOWEVER, After years of handouts there needs to be a line where we stop and let them get sorted out themselves, if this was such a big problem why isnt the people our country owes money too sending them money?
Instead of sending money for food and things maybe a mass sterlization would be a better way to go, 85.2million people and they just pop kids out for us to pay for.........
how is that correct?
£38M would make a massive difference
im sorry but after years of handouts if they cant get it right its time to give up
Were hardly in a position to throw good money away tho are we?
We should be able to say no to things like this if we would prefer our tax money spending on our childrens future or the nhs or other services that are lacking badly
Instead of sending money for food and things maybe a mass sterlization would be a better way to go, 85.2million people and they just pop kids out for us to pay for.........
how is that correct?
£38M would make a massive difference
im sorry but after years of handouts if they cant get it right its time to give up
Were hardly in a position to throw good money away tho are we?
We should be able to say no to things like this if we would prefer our tax money spending on our childrens future or the nhs or other services that are lacking badly
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At least it's not Nigeria. They'd be the ones sending the £38M to us but only if we give them our mothers maiden name and our account numbers so they can deposit it.
Eurgh.
Eurgh.
True enough. The fact is no one here needs an HDTV. No one here needs a Core i5 2500k, or a home cinema complete with 7.1 surround sound.
Most of us have those things because we got lucky and were born in the UK. So we are able to earn more and afford more than billions of others around the globe. We feel hard done by if, due to the current economic crisis, we might have to give up Sky sports or start buying our breakfast cereal in Aldi.
All of us here will have spent copious amounts of money on non-essential fluff. So how anyone can complain about a relatively small donation to Africa is puzzling. And sad
True enough. The fact is no one here needs an HDTV. No one here needs a Core i5 2500k, or a home cinema complete with 7.1 surround sound.
Most of us have those things because we got lucky and were born in the UK. So we are able to earn more and afford more than billions of others around the globe. We feel hard done by if, due to the current economic crisis, we might have to give up Sky sports or start buying our breakfast cereal in Aldi.
All of us here will have spent copious amounts of money on non-essential fluff. So how anyone can complain about a relatively small donation to Africa is puzzling. And sad
do you even know the worth of ethiopia?
We don't need it even half as much as those poor buggers do right now.
It's easy to say otherwise from the comfort of your nice warm house with running water and electricity and constant access to food.
38 million is an absolute drop in the ocean for the UK. 38 billion would still only be a slight ripple....
LOL... you make it sound like they plan their famines.
I think you need to go back to school and get an education young man.
Exactly. Some friends of mine shot a documentary in Uganda recently and it is just crazy seeing the difference between how we live and how they live.
(trivia: my daughter's the girl at the start
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We are borrowing £400m every single day to fund government expenditure. A one off payment of £38m really is bugger all.