howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#1
Across the board with few exceptions our politicos wish to keep the 0. 7% of GDP to send overseas. Cruella was quoted as saying that she was proud of the fact that books in third world schools were paid out of it, conveniently forgetting that here we have Head Teachers sending begging letters to parents for money to buy books.
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
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#2
the overseas aid budget should read 0.00000003% overall
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#3
I don 't have a problem with the foreign aid budget as long as it is spent on the right things, schools and vaccination programmes for children, clean water and sanitation, food for famine hit areas, gold crusted Presidential palaces for tyrants, space programmes and of course numbered Swiss bank accounts.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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#4
and indias space program
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
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#5
Overseas aid should be kept for when there is a disaster rather than used as a bribe on the off chance this country might benefit in some way.
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Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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#6
And for all you do-gooders wailing that 'something must be done' just read this.
How corrupt UN charity barons keep Africans poor, sick and hungry
See how it works now?
https://www.spectator.co.uk/2017/04/how-the-lords-of-poverty-are-squandering-foreign-aid/"The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#7
Nothing much that we didn't already know in that article, it has been clear for many years that aid is a sweetener for UK companies trying to gain contracts in third world countries. Most people want aid directed to areas where a disaster has taken place but even then most of it doesn't reach the victims, ask anyone in Sri Lanka affected by the Tsunami.
Going back some years when Geldoff got people to send in money the people in Ethiopia, I knew someone who worked in Dar-es-Salaam who told me that most of the grain, rice and other supplies was intercepted at various East African ports by Asian traders who simply auctioned it off to the highest bidders.
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