UK 'to end direct aid to 16 countries'

Independence requires alliances with other nations. Not aid or handouts.

money is used for influence. Not to help nations.

[STEED]

Originally Posted by The Third Man

Independence requires alliances with other nations. Not aid or handouts.

money is used for influence. Not to help nations.

Good point.

[Jimbuna]

Charity begins at home.

[jumpy]

Question: if you have your own military nuclear program, do you still qualify for foreign aid money?
Answer: yes, but only if a percentage of your civilian population qualifies as impoverished by international standards.

How to have your cake and eat it, at least if you're the government of india or pakistan.

Given the much discussed state of our economy and the steady rise in public and private spending cuts, it's about time we had a look at who we're giving money to and why.
If you can't help yourself, then you're never going to be in any fit state to help others...

I don't know how accurate this is, but it's an effective debt propaganda tool: http://www.debtbombshell.com/
lengthy pdf if you want to see the ONS figures for 2010 http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/d/psf.pdf

[Oberon]

Question: if you have your own military nuclear program, do you still qualify for foreign aid money?
Answer: yes, but only if a percentage of your civilian population qualifies as impoverished by international standards.

So where's our foreign aid money then?

[bookworm_020]

Originally Posted by nikimcbee

It's going to former colonies to stimulate the economy.

Well, we are taking the Irish off your hands!

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news...-1226013132700

Foreign aid is:
The taking of money from a poor man in a "rich" country,
and giving it to a rich man in a poor/"poor" country.

All the nations beiing labeled "rich", are debtor nations.
Governments that can not meet their own bills, have no right to give away the people's money, that they are supposed to be representing.

[STEED]

Originally Posted by jimbuna

Charity begins at home.

Cool picture there jim, I'm adding that to my wallpaper.

[Gerald]

Originally Posted by Snestorm

Foreign aid is:
The taking of money from a poor man in a "rich" country,
and giving it to a rich man in a poor/"poor" country.

All the nations beiing labeled "rich", are debtor nations.
Governments that can not meet their own bills, have no right to give away the people's money, that they are supposed to be representing.

[Armistead]

Originally Posted by Platapus

One could only hope such a thing could happen to the United States.

How many billions to we give to other nations?

How many good school lunches could that buy for US kids?

I agree, our tax dollars should work for americans. I read that 1 in 6 kids in America go to bed hungry. Get our house in order first.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by STEED

Cool picture there jim, I'm adding that to my wallpaper.

Rgr that

[Platapus]

Originally Posted by Armistead

I agree, our tax dollars should work for americans. I read that 1 in 6 kids in America go to bed hungry. Get our house in order first.

When we were hit with Katrina, I would have loved the President to announce a temporary suspension of foreign aid and state that he had to take care of his own citizens first.

No leader should ever feel bad about helping his or her own citizens first.

[nikimcbee]

Originally Posted by jimbuna

Charity begins at home.

I approve of this post

Is that a portrait of First Sea Lord Percy MacBuna, Lord of the Northern Fleet of the Tyne in the mid 1750's?

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by nikimcbee

I approve of this post

Is that a portrait of First Sea Lord Percy MacBuna, Lord of the Northern Fleet of the Tyne in the mid 1750's?

Good old Winston the British Bulldog

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Platapus

When we were hit with Katrina, I would have loved the President to announce a temporary suspension of foreign aid and state that he had to take care of his own citizens first.

No leader should ever feel bad about helping his or her own citizens first.

Rgr that.....I was astonished when I heard on the news this morning that we give financial aid to India WTF!, Russia your kidding me and China the second largest economy on the planet, bigger than Japan now FFS!