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Wrong ... The UK's problem is that we have a structural deficit. That means our ongoing spending commitments cannot be met out of the revenue we raise. Part of the reason for that is that Gordon Brown fostered a culture of welfarism in the UK that has resulted in benefits that are too generous being paid to too many people. Those people feel a sense of entitlement because they have been suckling at the government nipple for so long that they cannot understand the concept of the money simply not being there any more, but the fact is, the money never was there in the first place.
We could reduce our overseas aid budget to zero tomorrow and it wouldn't solve the problem of the structural deficit. To solve the deficit problem we need a permanent change in the amount that is spent, the breadth of measures it is spent on and the number of people who receive it.
Breaking that culture of dependency should, in time, result in more British people working, thus growing the economy more than enough to pay for overseas aid which, if it is targeted at health and education measures, will in the long term also reduce the amount we have to spend invading failed states, stationing gunboats off their coastlines and dragging their citizens off the backs of lorries arriving in Dover.
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Excellent post. Apart from the bit where you said I was wrong
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imo, neither of us are wrong. You are quite correct in what you said & I agree with you entirely. I am merely saying that the govt should not give our money away whilst we actually need it (and really, not even once we have enough either)
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Originally Posted by Arthurgray50@blu
Every year we give billions in Aid to countries who do not need it, we also give aid of food etc to other countries only for it to fall into the black markets of that country.
We give aid to countries where they show children in desperate need of food and clean water, and we have wonderful charities like the Red Cross that have volunteers in those countries.
We as a country supply troops to these countries to fight the Taliban, and now we are sending troops to Syria to help out France, these troops do not know if they have a job when they come back.
This country spends billions on saving banks where the bosses get huge bonuses.
YET, our government will close hospitals, A&E Depts, they will cut troops, reduce our police service, our troops that come back from fighting in other countries and are injured lose there accommodation, limbs as the MOD wont look after them due to costs, businesses will close due to costs, electricity and gas prices will go up and the government will not stop it.
Is there one law for oversaeas countries and one law for us. Cameron is an idiot and only wants to look after oversea's countries in the hope he can get contracts for this country, and when the come in the MOD give it to another country.
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Amazingly, I completely agree (with the bits I understand)