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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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On News 24 they mentioned that $87 billion is approx. $1,000 per American family.
To put some kind of context on it.
To put some kind of context on it.
Insane Bartender wrote:
> Well, I don't bother to research my sources, as I don;t give a flying
> fook if you believe me or not. But I know I heard that figure banded
> about for aid somewhere in the last year, I didn't "pull it out
> of the air" in an attempt to defunk someone's point with blatant
> lies, thankyou.
Fair enough, but it does appear that you are incorrect in what you've said. Can't you be gracious enough to concede that?
> Well, I don't bother to research my sources, as I don;t give a flying
> fook if you believe me or not. But I know I heard that figure banded
> about for aid somewhere in the last year, I didn't "pull it out
> of the air" in an attempt to defunk someone's point with blatant
> lies, thankyou.
Fair enough, but it does appear that you are incorrect in what you've said. Can't you be gracious enough to concede that?
But it did turn out to be a load of rubbish, and perhaps it shouldn't have been used to sneer at other people.
Well, I don't bother to research my sources, as I don;t give a flying fook if you believe me or not. But I know I heard that figure banded about for aid somewhere in the last year, I didn't "pull it out of the air" in an attempt to defunk someone's point with blatant lies, thankyou.
Oh, and in a Belldandy stylee, here is my googletastic source:
http://www.usaid.gov/mca/030610.html
http://www.usaid.gov/mca/030610.html
Insane Bartender wrote:
> Perhaps it wasn't all for Aids then, but it was a rescue package by US
> that is somewhere in that value range.
I guess you mean the Millenium Challenge Account, which is Bush's big and quite good aid and development plan. This is straight from the horse's mouth:
"If fully funded by Congress, MCA would provide the largest increase in U.S. development assistance since the Marshall Plan. By 2006, it would represent an increase of 50% over our core development assistance funding level in 2002. From 2006 onward, we would invest $5 billion per year in the MCA. Our funding for existing development assistance programs, which now comes to more than $10 billion annually, will continue to rise."
That's $15 billion plus per year for the whole world. A big improvement, yes, but miles away from 'hundreds of billions for Africa'. If there is another plan then they are keeping awfully quiet about it.
So, as far as I can tell, the two people who were mocking Goatboy for saying that $87 billion would heal the world were both pulling figures out of thin air. Which kind of undermines your arguments.
> Perhaps it wasn't all for Aids then, but it was a rescue package by US
> that is somewhere in that value range.
I guess you mean the Millenium Challenge Account, which is Bush's big and quite good aid and development plan. This is straight from the horse's mouth:
"If fully funded by Congress, MCA would provide the largest increase in U.S. development assistance since the Marshall Plan. By 2006, it would represent an increase of 50% over our core development assistance funding level in 2002. From 2006 onward, we would invest $5 billion per year in the MCA. Our funding for existing development assistance programs, which now comes to more than $10 billion annually, will continue to rise."
That's $15 billion plus per year for the whole world. A big improvement, yes, but miles away from 'hundreds of billions for Africa'. If there is another plan then they are keeping awfully quiet about it.
So, as far as I can tell, the two people who were mocking Goatboy for saying that $87 billion would heal the world were both pulling figures out of thin air. Which kind of undermines your arguments.
SHEEPY wrote:
> Shut your mouth Anastacia Czar... I shall be storming all over your
> face and throwing you in a pit you facist child eater.
--
Now that's just mean. Where is the love?
> Shut your mouth Anastacia Czar... I shall be storming all over your
> face and throwing you in a pit you facist child eater.
--
Now that's just mean. Where is the love?
Light wrote:
> Does anyone else see the irony in his supposed Defender of Freedom
> stance relying heavily on no-one exercising their freedom of
> expression?
Yes. Our countries like freedom so much we choose to bomb others that don't. But strangely if people try to exercise their right to free speech they're "basically communists".
> Does anyone else see the irony in his supposed Defender of Freedom
> stance relying heavily on no-one exercising their freedom of
> expression?
Yes. Our countries like freedom so much we choose to bomb others that don't. But strangely if people try to exercise their right to free speech they're "basically communists".
Shut your mouth Anastacia Czar... I shall be storming all over your face and throwing you in a pit you facist child eater.
So when are we storming the Winter Palace? The main objective seems to have been lost here.
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