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Originally Posted by Arthurgray50@blu
I don't care, we should not send that amount of money to a country, when we are suffering also.llWe are being told that we have to make cutbacks due to money that has been spent in this country, an yet they can send that amount of money abroad, they can quite easily stop or half that amount to put back into the economy, as an old motto is 'whats good for the goose, is good for the ganda"
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I think those three words sum it all up.
You don't see the bigger picture, which would show that there is some self-interest in this from our side as well, nor do you see the humanitarian side.
On the humanitarian side of the discussion I frankly am disgusted and flabbergasted that you equate the cuts in our public services, which are required even if this aid were put back in as the deficits are structural not one-off, with the suffering and death this aid will alleviate in Africa. Oh no we'll have to pay a touch more tax and services will have to go back to where they were in 2003-5, clearly comparable to a slow painful death from Malaria, watching children die and be orphaned.
