Ardsgaine
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Originally posted by Luis G
geez dude, you're the most selfish person i've ever seen.
Why, thank you!
Originally posted by Luis G
geez dude, you're the most selfish person i've ever seen.
Originally posted by LastLegionary
If you have to steal money from your own people to give to charity, help your own people FIRST. Not some dipshit 5,000km away that I don't know.
Originally posted by ris
most of the african countries are given aid becasue they are in permanent states of famine [the news stops reporting after a time but they still go on]. that's why money is given.
giving aid at times of natural disaster and crisis is merely treating the effect, not the cause. rebuilding infrastructure and improving countries through aid will inthe long-term prevent famines, hunger and poverty.
Originally posted by Ardsgaine
Not every country over there is suffering from famine, yet they all get aid money from various sources. Yes, they are in a permanent state of crisis, but why? It's because they are run by dictators-- probably the most incompetent bunch of dictators in the history of the world. Not that any dictatorship could ever be a good way to run a country, but there are degrees of badness. Sending aid does nothing but reward these dictatorships for their ineptness. They are spending our aid money to keep themselves in power. By propping them up, we our prolonging the suffering over there and delaying the day when the people of Africa will wake up and realize that dictatorships do not work.
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The govenment needs to be more self sufficent. If the government brings in its own money, I don't see a problem with helping out in the event of a natural disaster.