Quote:
Originally Posted by Livia
If you feel so strongly, feel free to donate to Oxfam - a good British institution.
How come we're the only country who has to continue to lash ourself about stuff that happened so long ago?
If India was starving, if there weren't so many multi-millionaires and billionaires there, if their economy wasn't MASSIVE, then I'd probably agree something has to be done. However, when they have a space programme and are still holding out their hand to the UK and holding us responsible for their poor, then something is wrong with them. The real trouble is that the class system in India is twenty times worse than the good-old British class system and the high-caste Indians have no interest in their own poor people.
|
I actually give both my time and money to St. Basils and Shelter homeless organisations.
I feel we have a responsibility because of our colonial past, but that isn't my prime reason for believing we should help.
As I've already stated, we should be judged by how we treat those that have the least. I'm aware that India has a space program, but they aren't the only hypocrites in world politics. Why do
we have science departments when
we also have debt and deficits?
Why is Osbourne looking to ease the burden on our own millionaires in our country by looking to cut our top tax bracket, when we have homelessness and poverty?