Plane search vs spending the money combatting world hunger and disease

[Sundae]

I'm tired of the media hoopla, but I am glad to have read reasonable explanations for the search here. I wouldn't have thought of them, having not really considered this much, beyond the headlines.

Sadly, Monster, if the search stopped this minute no money would be spent in the way you're suggesting. I felt the same about the hunt - still ongoing - for Madeleine McCann. A missing child must be every parent's worst nightmare, and I did feel for them. But the amount of children hurt, abused, deprived who might have been prevented from growing up into runaways/ addicts/ criminals with the money funding the search had its own little tragedy and poignancy. Except that had she not gone missing, that money wouldn't have gone into social care or family support.

The Governments have the bread and the media gives us the circuses.