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Originally Posted by Sirius
I see nothing wrong in looking after your own people first or am i in an alternate universe. I want my tax money to be spent on this country not some country that cannot get its act together because its goverment thinks we ae going to fund them..
Here's one, i know they will not be getting any more money off us, WHY were we giving MILLIONS to India and yet they had a nuclear bomb program and a space program. That's the sort of misuse of money that really ****es me off.
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UK welfare spending in 2012: £117 billion.
UK overseas aid spending in 2012: £8.8 billion.
This, I submit, constitutes "looking after your own people first".
Incidentally that welfare figure includes both central and local government benefits, but excludes the NHS, for which you could add another £126 billion to the tab for "looking after [our] own people first".
Our overseas aid budget is ring-fenced so that as other departments' spending comes down, the proportion of spending on overseas aid goes up ... Until it gets so high that we are spending a mahoosive ZERO POINT SEVEN PER CENT of it on aid.
Again, I make the point that there is absolutely no equivalence whatsoever between the furore over the so-called "bedroom tax" and the question of whether children everywhere deserve an education and whether rich nations have an obligation to help poor nations achieve it.