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Originally Posted by martyh
Don't you think that the aid budget should be cut along with our own welfare budget ,after all the principle of reducing dependency on other countries works for other countries just as much as reducing our own state dependency does it not ,a policy i am firmly behind ,and since overseas aid is linked to GDP then it should go up if the gov do their job properly whereas state spending should go down ,meaning we will always get less as a % as our economy picks up and countries in receipt of aid will always get more
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You're not comparing eggs with eggs.
. In the UK we're talking about cuts in welfare, *some* of which has over time resulted in dependency because it absolves people from the responsibility of looking after themselves and gives them no way out.
Overseas, aid is directed at health, education and commercial development all of which result in time in flourishing states with stable government and a healthy, educated population and a growing economy. We also benefit from that political and economic stability.
For a direct comparison you would need to be comparing welfare spending in the UK with basic food aid overseas, of the kind we should only be dropping in to specific and extreme situations, precisely so as to avoid foreign governments becoming dependent on external funding.