British People Put Last: £1 million Flood Relief to Cumbria, but £293 million in Foreign Aid in Same Week
Divided by Diversity ☺☻☺
to Cumbria, the Department For International Development gave out an
incredible £293 million in foreign aid to Sri Lanka, Pakistan, the
World Bank, Sierra Leone and Ethiopia.
DVH
"Divided by Diversity ???" <stj...@googlemail.com> wrote in message
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> In the same week that Gordon Brown announced �1 million in flood aid
> to Cumbria, the Department For International Development gave out an
> incredible �293 million in foreign aid to Sri Lanka, Pakistan, the
> World Bank, Sierra Leone and Ethiopia.
Have you ever considered why we give out foreign aid to the developing
world?
AgitProp
wrote:
> In the same week that Gordon Brown announced £1 million in flood aid
> to Cumbria, the Department For International Development gave out an
> incredible £293 million in foreign aid to Sri Lanka, Pakistan, the
> World Bank, Sierra Leone and Ethiopia.
>
Foreign aid is a form of tax.
It usually turns back in the pockets of the Oligarchy officials.
Some of it is split with corrupt dictators and governments
to buy their silence.
White Spirit
So they can afford to buy plane tickets to come here?
Roger Dewhurst
R
DVH
"Roger Dewhurst" <dewh...@wave.co.nz> wrote in message
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Because if you raise living standards elsewhere you reduce birth rates and
the number of angry young unemployed men with bombs, while expanding markets
for UK goods and services.
Because where aid doesn't work, patronage is still useful for buying foreign
leaders, diplomats, and businesspeople.
Because we're nice people, and a lot of aid works surprisingly well.
White Spirit
> "Roger Dewhurst" <dewh...@wave.co.nz> wrote in message
> news:hed04j$u49$2...@lust.ihug.co.nz...
>>> Have you ever considered why we give out foreign aid to the developing
>>> world?
>> It is not immediately apparent. Do you know?
> Because if you raise living standards elsewhere you reduce birth rates and
> the number of angry young unemployed men with bombs, while expanding markets
> for UK goods and services.
> Because where aid doesn't work, patronage is still useful for buying foreign
> leaders, diplomats, and businesspeople.
> Because we're nice people, and a lot of aid works surprisingly well.
I have a better idea - use the money to keep a good defensive force so
that when they target us, we bomb the fuck out of them. Those countries
who are friendly towards us can sell us their rice, bananas and other
manufactured goods at a fair price that is used to develop their
countries at a sensible rate.
DVH
"White Spirit" <wsp...@homechoice.co.uk> wrote in message
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Nothing wrong with that in general.
But who should we have bombed for the July 2005 tube bombings? Or Ken
Bigley's beheading?
White Spirit
>> I have a better idea - use the money to keep a good defensive force so
>> that when they target us, we bomb the fuck out of them. Those countries
>> who are friendly towards us can sell us their rice, bananas and other
>> manufactured goods at a fair price that is used to develop their countries
>> at a sensible rate.
> Nothing wrong with that in general.
> But who should we have bombed for the July 2005 tube bombings? Or Ken
> Bigley's beheading?
There's a space in the Atlantic Ocean where a brave pilot could drop the
appropriate payload in these circumstances - the bodies of the murdering
scum.