[cam.misc] Re: vanka-vstanka

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Subject: Re: vanka-vstanka
From: The Natural Philosopher <t...@invalid.invalid>
Newsgroups: cam.misc

Alex Selby wrote:
> On 20/08/12 19:46, Roland Perry wrote:
>> In message <k0ts2i$jqj$1...@dont-email.me>, at 18:27:47 on Mon, 20 Aug
>> 2012, Alex Selby <a.p....@REMOVE.pobox.com> remarked:
>>>>> AIUI all the �50k has to go to art, since that's what the council
>>>>> undertook to do.
>>>>
>>>> It would all go to Art, in the same sense that all the money you
>>>> give to
>>>> Oxfam goes to buy food (but minus their considerable administrative
>>>> overheads).
>>>
>>> Since you mention it, Oxfam don't just buy food. They do a variety of
>>> things, including securing clean water / sanitation (one of their
>>> specialities).
>>
>> "Buying food" is the proxy for all that.
>
> Dumping food on a region is quite different from making wells.
> You do have this habit of not ever conceding any point, no matter how
> small, and no matter how obviously wrong you might be.
>
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day.
Teach a man how to fish and pretty soon you have 10 million starving
descendants dependent on fished out seas all holding out their hands.
Put a bullet between his eyes, and the problem is permanently solved.

(The politics of Finite Resources, by A. Cynic).

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to lead are elected by the least capable of producing, and where the
members of society least likely to sustain themselves or succeed, are
rewarded with goods and services paid for by the confiscated wealth of
a diminishing number of producers.

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