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Are you insinuating that I'm ugly because I think we should procatively help the downtrodden and needy?
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Proactive help is a good thing, Spexx, but I think you've lost sight of the scale. Even if we'd gone so far as to give all of Haiti free rebar for life, then the earthquake would have struck rural Mexico instead. Or Costa Rica, or Puerto Rico, or Cuba, or Guatemala... We help a whole lot of countries a fair amount, but you can never predict who's going to end up needing more help than others.
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We can't just give them free rebar... we'd have to take over their government, pass a law that they would have to use it and how, and police the construction sites to assure compliance. Chavez would love it.
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01-18-2010, 04:26 PM | #125 |
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i won't argue politics with a socialist. I think you're ugliness goes to the bone because you behave worse than you look.
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To which behavior are you referring?
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Right. We'll just stop sending aid to Haiti right now since it accomplishes nothing in the long run.
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But you don't have a choice where your money goes. You do have the choice of whether to give or not. You may choose The Red Cross, but you don't control who they give it to, or what they do with it. And if you find a charity that you know will give it to, let's say as an example, rebar, why didn't you donate, by choice, to them long enough ago to make a difference during the earthquake. Do you know what I'm getting at? We give now, but it's too late. 100,000 people are dead.
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Because I don't know any rebar charities and what the Haitians are going to do with the damn rebar. They could sell it to another island for bananas, for all I know.
I know what the Red Cross is doing with my money, paying McGovern over a million bucks a year.
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But I think it is misdirected in the sense that most goes to corrupt governments or governments incapable of maximizing the use of the funds....or through equally inefficent international organizations like the World Bank and IMF. I would give more of that one penny to NGOs with a proven track record of accomplishment in improving economic or social conditions in developing countries. ** excluding military aid and trade assistance. |
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We cannot prevent natural disasters - Hell we have cities built below sea level right here in the US, ferchrissakes. We already do help proactively - to the tune of untold BILLIONS upon BILLIONS. We cannot fix every ill in the world. It is not possible. We do the best we can and when something happens we help our "neighbors" (many of whom HATE US) in their time of need as well. Just paying for everything any other country could ever need isn't a solution. Its idiotic actually.
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Yeah, but you'd happily give them my money too.
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