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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3088772.stm
$87bn needed.
Can't help thinking that you could solve pretty much the entire world's food shortages, homelessness and disease with that.
Yet we can muster it to kill.
*shakes head*
$87bn needed.
Can't help thinking that you could solve pretty much the entire world's food shortages, homelessness and disease with that.
Yet we can muster it to kill.
*shakes head*
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If the Oxfam adverts are been honest then £10 can support an African family for a week giving them food and clean water.
87 billion, 87,000,000,000.00 will support 8.7 billion families for a week.
Or 23,835,616 families for a whole year.
How can you say that isn't going to make a difference to them?
87 billion, 87,000,000,000.00 will support 8.7 billion families for a week.
Or 23,835,616 families for a whole year.
How can you say that isn't going to make a difference to them?
Belldandy wrote:
"a paltry $87 billion..."
*spits out water*
Eh? You'd rather spend 87 billion on 'showing that we won't back away'? Showing who? And I'm sure starving/homeless people in 3rd World countries don't agree that $87 billion makes 'zero difference'.
But sure, spend it on a few nuclear warheads we ain't gonna use. 87 billion won't even make a dent, so why bother?
*scratches head*
Let me get strapped in here.
"a paltry $87 billion..."
*spits out water*
Eh? You'd rather spend 87 billion on 'showing that we won't back away'? Showing who? And I'm sure starving/homeless people in 3rd World countries don't agree that $87 billion makes 'zero difference'.
But sure, spend it on a few nuclear warheads we ain't gonna use. 87 billion won't even make a dent, so why bother?
*scratches head*
Let me get strapped in here.
Mouldy Cheese wrote:
> Insane Bartender wrote:
>
> But in the great scheme of things, it wouldn't make much difference
> at all.
>
> Bollards. "saving lives, rebuild villages, towns,
> governments" - they'd make a difference to the people they
> affect.
Bollards yourself, it'd make zero difference, if we can't get a government in place in one country, backed by close to 200000 troops, you'll damn well not do it anywhere else with no troops.
$87 Billion is money well spent, combined with the sending of more UK forces it shows that we are not going to back away from this. And by the way, http://www.un.org/ecosocdev/geninfo/afrec/ vol13no1/06odalg.gif is an old table showing aid given to just South Africa between 93-97 , totalling close to US$105 billion, so if any of you think you're going to solve the world's problems with a paltry $87 billion then I suggest you contact the UN - the authors of that graph - with your plan, because they're gonna want to know about it....
Getting Iraq secure and rebuilt is the #1 priority there is right now, alongside the continuing war on terror, it's all part and parcel of the same thing.
> Insane Bartender wrote:
>
> But in the great scheme of things, it wouldn't make much difference
> at all.
>
> Bollards. "saving lives, rebuild villages, towns,
> governments" - they'd make a difference to the people they
> affect.
Bollards yourself, it'd make zero difference, if we can't get a government in place in one country, backed by close to 200000 troops, you'll damn well not do it anywhere else with no troops.
$87 Billion is money well spent, combined with the sending of more UK forces it shows that we are not going to back away from this. And by the way, http://www.un.org/ecosocdev/geninfo/afrec/ vol13no1/06odalg.gif is an old table showing aid given to just South Africa between 93-97 , totalling close to US$105 billion, so if any of you think you're going to solve the world's problems with a paltry $87 billion then I suggest you contact the UN - the authors of that graph - with your plan, because they're gonna want to know about it....
Getting Iraq secure and rebuilt is the #1 priority there is right now, alongside the continuing war on terror, it's all part and parcel of the same thing.
Insane Bartender wrote:
> But in the great scheme of things, it wouldn't make much difference
> at all.
Bollards. "saving lives, rebuild villages, towns, governments" - they'd make a difference to the people they affect.
> But in the great scheme of things, it wouldn't make much difference
> at all.
Bollards. "saving lives, rebuild villages, towns, governments" - they'd make a difference to the people they affect.
What exactly does that money go on? Keeping them in twinkies and Ho-Hos?
It costs 1 billion dollars a week to keep US forces in Iraq.
great.
great.
Not really something to laugh about though, is it? And I think it would make quite a substantial difference, seeing as if George Bush is allowed to continue pumping money into war at this rate he'll probably decide to invade a few other countries while he's at it.
"Well hell boys, we gotta stinking great war budget so we might as well use it! Them Frenchies have been looking at me funny! Bring up G13!"
"Well hell boys, we gotta stinking great war budget so we might as well use it! Them Frenchies have been looking at me funny! Bring up G13!"
HAHAHAAHHAA!! You couldn't even make a dent in African AIDS with that puny amount. The US recently pledged more than four times that amount to fight AIDS, and critics said it didn't nearly go far enough.
Sure, it should go to something other than fighting, but don't start believing that the third world is going to go on suffering just because they're not getting that money. Sure, it could save lives, rebuild villages, towns, governments, perhaps even some civilisation. But in the great scheme of things, it wouldn't make much difference at all.
Sure, it should go to something other than fighting, but don't start believing that the third world is going to go on suffering just because they're not getting that money. Sure, it could save lives, rebuild villages, towns, governments, perhaps even some civilisation. But in the great scheme of things, it wouldn't make much difference at all.
Wish you were prime minister.
The thing is, Blair and Bush have their heads so far up each others ass holes that they cannot see the simple solutions.
The thing is, Blair and Bush have their heads so far up each others ass holes that they cannot see the simple solutions.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3088772.stm
$87bn needed.
Can't help thinking that you could solve pretty much the entire world's food shortages, homelessness and disease with that.
Yet we can muster it to kill.
*shakes head*
$87bn needed.
Can't help thinking that you could solve pretty much the entire world's food shortages, homelessness and disease with that.
Yet we can muster it to kill.
*shakes head*
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