UK to double funding for polio battle

[Dolph]

Why do those critical of deficit reduction due to Labour's public spending crisis always show economic illiteracy when they try to show hypocrisy over minor items of spending?

We're talking of a doubling in funding from almost nothing to double almost nothing.

Perhaps this is why the critical left can never actually solve a spending crisis, or indeed not cause one when they are in power, they don't understand which number is the bigger one and how they relate to each other...

 

[muon]

Why do those critical of deficit reduction due to Labour's public spending crisis always show economic illiteracy when they try to show hypocrisy over minor items of spending?

We're talking of a doubling in funding from almost nothing to double almost nothing.

Perhaps this is why the critical left can never actually solve a spending crisis, or indeed not cause one when they are in power, they don't understand which number is the bigger one and how they relate to each other...

Well to be fair DFID will be getting 0.7% of GDP in 2013 with it rising from the current 0.5% of GDP. This £60m (no doubt coming from DFID budget) pales in comparison to that.

I personally have no problem with spending 0.7% of GDP on foreign aid and development (a lot of the money literally saves tens of thousands of lives, would like to see how we can do that at home). It is part of the MDG obligations we signed up to, and hopefully other countries will follow.

http://www.dfid.gov.uk/Documents/DFID-business-plan.pdf

 

[Dj_Jestar]

It's funny, some people think the government's not cutting enough and others think that the government is cutting way too much. What's that saying about not pleasing all of the people all of the time?

If £60m (or whatever it is) is going to make a significant dent in the cases of polio per year then I struggle to begrudge the Government giving it. It's not a huge sum in terms of what is spent by the Government and while every little helps (etc etc) it's not exactly liable to make a significant impact on the deficit so gains vs costs it seems worthwhile to me.

I'm actually pro-this government. Well, if I'm entirely honest, just happy to have these guys instead of Labour.

My point was they have done nothing to favour them in the "public" eye.

 

[[DOD]Asprilla]

There's too many people in the world anyhoo

You should try reading up on some of the Gates Foundation work. The projects they have worked on show that increasing the life expectancy of adults and reducing child mortality rates actually substantially slows population growth as people have fewer kids. This change happens within one generation.

 

[Sinny]

Usually said by people who don't give to ANY charities.

Taken from Bottom .

 

[Saytan]

Why do those critical of deficit reduction due to Labour's public spending crisis always show economic illiteracy when they try to show hypocrisy over minor items of spending?

We're talking of a doubling in funding from almost nothing to double almost nothing.

Perhaps this is why the critical left can never actually solve a spending crisis, or indeed not cause one when they are in power, they don't understand which number is the bigger one and how they relate to each other...

it's because to the average layman $60m is a lot of money, and indeed, to a single individual or small group, it is.

They are frequently unable to recognise that on a national economy scale, this is the equivalent of the credit card debtor who has been cited in some posts chucking a tramp 50p.