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Post by Chips on May 5, 2008 8:57:39 GMT 9.5
Price of charity pales against cost of war
At first glance George Bush's raising of the US contribution in emergency food assistance for poor countries to $US2.6 billion ($2.77 billion) a year might seem generous, were it not for the fact that it amounts to less than one week's spending on the war in Iraq.
Don Hartley Leichhardt
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Post by clifftimmons on May 5, 2008 10:02:48 GMT 9.5
Well Donny, how generous are you?
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Post by Cullyn Of Cerrmor on May 5, 2008 10:23:33 GMT 9.5
Unfortunately it is true, but not only the US but of many governments around the world. ON a world wide basis more money is spent per week on weapons, even in peacetime, than is spent on disaster relief per year. And people wonder why it takes so long to clean up a fter a major storm.
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Post by clifftimmons on May 5, 2008 10:37:22 GMT 9.5
I guess the US wants to spend money caring from their citizens first then starving children in Africa.
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Post by Cullyn Of Cerrmor on May 5, 2008 10:40:46 GMT 9.5
I guess the US wants to spend money caring from their citizens first then starving children in Africa. Well if they actually did look after US citizens I would agree, but no US Government has ever looked after US citizens. I have heard the same thing from more than one person in the US, not on the news.
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Post by clifftimmons on May 5, 2008 10:47:40 GMT 9.5
A strong military is a great caretaker.
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Post by Cullyn Of Cerrmor on May 5, 2008 10:54:19 GMT 9.5
A strong military is a great caretaker. True, but the US and Russia did spend billions of dollars on weapons they never used, could never use and had no intention of using. Just ten percent of this money would of given the US and Russia the best medical care in the world, and all at no charge.
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Post by clifftimmons on May 5, 2008 11:01:20 GMT 9.5
If that were the government's role. <grin>
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Post by Cullyn Of Cerrmor on May 5, 2008 11:20:08 GMT 9.5
Are you sure?
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Post by clifftimmons on May 5, 2008 11:31:08 GMT 9.5
For me and my vote for my country, yes.
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Post by Chips on May 5, 2008 12:50:49 GMT 9.5
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Post by Epi on May 6, 2008 6:53:56 GMT 9.5
I really do think the USA do their fair share assisting other countries. Spend less on war? I'd agree with that.
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Post by nancy1340 on May 6, 2008 10:15:06 GMT 9.5
For me and my vote for my country, yes. What you said.
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Post by clifftimmons on May 6, 2008 11:06:45 GMT 9.5
It's no so much the spending in war that bothers me, it's the going in and not hitting them harder.
In the last several years we have decided to make war like a warrant sweep in a police department.
War is about blowing up stuff and killing people. The harder you hit someone, the faster is is over.
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