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Originally Posted by Damien
People are dying there too. There are people dying from simply not being able to afford antibiotics or other medications, from a lack of clean water or a infrastructure to support them. These people are not living it up whilst our pensioners suffer. That's not the choice that has been made. It's just an emotional appeal to make it seem like those who support foreign aid are doing so at the expense of the old people dying here.
News stories don't make the whole picture but we do have social safety nets and the examples of people dying from a lack of food(?!) are examples of the system failing not examples of there not being enough money. However, if there isn't a enough money then let's ask for our taxes to be raised because cutting foreign aid isn't going to do enough.
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Well said, it's not a one or the other choice and these grotty little rags that peddle it as such are just attempting to create an agenda to fill the void left since they stopped reporting news. I wonder why it is the never mention the four million children alive today thanks to aid funded vaccination or all the schools built.
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Originally Posted by martyh
don't you think there is a principle at stake though .At home there are stringent cuts because we don't have money and yet our government decide to ringfence foriegn aid .Giving the impression that other countries are more important than ours
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Yes so important we 'give' them less than 1% & I don't even trust that figure, I think it's less.