FAQ |
Members List |
Calendar |
Search |
Today's Posts |
![]() |
|
Serious Debates & News Debate and discussion about political, moral, philosophical, celebrity and news topics. |
Reply |
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
![]() |
#1 | ||
|
|||
User banned
|
https://www.express.co.uk/comment/ex...ss-theresa-may
A very good article and I agree with every word he says. We are just throwing money away that would be best spent on health and social issues her in Britain. |
||
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#2 | |||
|
||||
Senior Member
|
Quote:
We give 0.7% or 70p in ever £100 in foreign aid and I don't think that's a bad thing. The bad thing is, we hand that money over to a central body who then allocate it how they see fit. If we are going to give foreign aid, we shouldn't be giving it to Indian housing associations who use it to put air coolers in peoples houses. We shouldn't be giving it to self sustaining countries like China but to countries that don't have clean water, medicines and even food. Money needs to get to the people it should. We need to research and start focussing on what makes a 'real difference'.
__________________
No longer on this site. |
|||
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#3 | ||
|
|||
Senior Member
|
So much of it goes to waste, as DR pointed out it goes to the wrong places. Things which foreign aid should actually be going toward (like building houses or making water pumps) falls on the shoulders of charities and/or private donors.
I'd say scrap foreign aid, and those who really want 70p/£100 going toward good causes can donate it from their own money toward charities who enact the things they care about.
__________________
![]() ![]() |
||
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#4 | |||
|
||||
Senior Member
|
Quote:
Look at it like this; If you saw a child laying starving in its mothers arms, would you take out your purse/wallet and give that mother what you could or would you walk on by because you need that money to buy chocolate and wine for tonight? I believe most of us have enough humanity in us to give that mother money. Most of us would forfeit wine and chocolate to save someone’s life if we saw them dying in front of us. But why should it take a child dying in front of us to show humanity? Just about every mother in the world would agree that no mother deserves to watch helplessly as her starving child dies in her arms… NO mother. It costs a family less in foreign aid than what the average family throws away in wasted food each week.
__________________
No longer on this site. |
|||
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#5 | ||
|
|||
User banned
|
Quote:
|
||
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#6 | |||
|
||||
self-oscillating
|
giving foreign aid to a country isn't just about the money we send, its about building relationships with those countries, understanding their people. Creating diplomatic ties. One can't easily put a monetary value on that benefit, but it is a benefit to us none the less.
|
|||
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#7 | |||
|
||||
Senior Member
|
Quote:
I'm a bit pissed btw as we'v'e just been over to friends for xmas drinks so if I'm not making any sense, I apologize now!!
__________________
No longer on this site. |
|||
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#8 | |||
|
||||
Senior Member
|
I feel so sorry for you Brillo.
__________________
No longer on this site. |
|||
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#9 | |||
|
||||
Likes cars that go boom
|
And they say there's no such thing as 'island mentality'
__________________
![]() |
|||
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#10 | ||
|
|||
User banned
|
|
||
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#11 | ||
|
|||
User banned
|
|
||
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#12 | ||
|
|||
Senior Moment
|
Foreign aid PC madness gone snowflake!
|
||
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#13 | |||
|
||||
Senior Member
|
I'm just not going to bother replying or responding to uncharitable people because it just makes this place depressing.
__________________
No longer on this site. |
|||
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#14 | ||
|
|||
User banned
|
Quote:
More needs to be done about educating these people or perhaps offering financial incentives to people to have no more than a couple of children. I don’t understand how people can keep bringing children into such suffering. It may be a different culture with different thinking but commonsense should dictate to anyone in such poverty that if they keep having child after child those poor children are going to suffer - you can’t keep conveniently ignoring that personal accountability. Stop dictating to everyone how to think and act and then try to belittle them because they don’t think/act like you. You do your bit and I’ll do mine - without feeling the need to get on my soapbox all the time. I often feel that people who constantly try to shove such opinions down the throats of others do more harm than good as people tend not to respond well to such people. Good communication is the key - not political rhetoric and insinuations. Last edited by Brillopad; 10-12-2017 at 09:23 AM. |
||
![]() |
![]() |
Reply |
Thread Tools | Search this Thread |
Display Modes | |
|
|