[^_^] !ZSnwP1dSjU replied with this 15 years ago, 2 minutes later, 5 minutes after the original post[^][v]#245,431
@previous (SQUARED :3 !L.....AlN.)
Not to everyone. And that's why i <3 you
Killer Lettuce !!iNo3FkiZx joined in and replied with this 15 years ago, 3 minutes later, 8 minutes after the original post[^][v]#245,433
We as a country are certainly giving more than our fair share, we really should cut back a bit.
I guess that not many people are aware of it, so there's not much noise about it.
marvin !H0G.H/BnJg joined in and replied with this 15 years ago, 3 minutes later, 11 minutes after the original post[^][v]#245,435
Because it's such a tiny part of the budget (a bit over 1% for the US, iirc). And the people who are going to protest anything are hippy-dippies who like the idea of foreign aid anyway.
How much foreign aid does Britain give, does anyone know? Too lazy to search.
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Killer Lettuce !!iNo3FkiZx replied with this 15 years ago, 1 minute later, 13 minutes after the original post[^][v]#245,437
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I can't remember the exact figure, but it's staggeringly more than the other rich counties in Europe.
marvin !H0G.H/BnJg replied with this 15 years ago, 4 minutes later, 18 minutes after the original post[^][v]#245,439
SQUARED :3 !L.....AlN. (OP) double-posted this 15 years ago, 1 minute later, 19 minutes after the original post[^][v]#245,441
@245,435 (marvin !H0G.H/BnJg) > How much foreign aid does Britain give, does anyone know? Too lazy to search.
£7.7 billion this year, I think. 0.7% of our GDP.
marvin !H0G.H/BnJg replied with this 15 years ago, 1 minute later, 21 minutes after the original post[^][v]#245,442
@previous (SQUARED :3 !L.....AlN.)
Maybe if your country were more productive it wouldn't be a problem.
SQUARED :3 !L.....AlN. (OP) replied with this 15 years ago, 1 minute later, 22 minutes after the original post[^][v]#245,444
@previous (marvin !H0G.H/BnJg)
What does that have to do with anything?
Killer Lettuce !!iNo3FkiZx replied with this 15 years ago, 4 minutes later, 26 minutes after the original post[^][v]#245,447
@245,439 (marvin !H0G.H/BnJg)
The chart I read in the Mail (no I didn't buy it, I was waiting in a break room for a while and there was nothing else to read) put us as giving out considerably more aid than other European countries. I don't know where they were getting their numbers from though, and the Mail is of course incredibly biased.
@245,440 (SQUARED :3 !L.....AlN.) > bnp
Ew gross. We don't need to resort to using them as a source, do we?
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Killer Lettuce !!iNo3FkiZx double-posted this 15 years ago, 1 minute later, 28 minutes after the original post[^][v]#245,448
SQUARED :3 !L.....AlN. (OP) replied with this 15 years ago, 1 minute later, 29 minutes after the original post[^][v]#245,449
@245,447 (Killer Lettuce !!iNo3FkiZx)
I'm sorry, it was the first result on Google and I was being lazy. :D
Leo Vegas !gNoGoD5HzQ joined in and replied with this 15 years ago, 1 minute later, 31 minutes after the original post[^][v]#245,451
Because nobody cares about this type of stuff. It is important but it seems like the majority of people are too busy drinking Sprite and being fucking stupid.
marvin !H0G.H/BnJg replied with this 15 years ago, 18 seconds later, 31 minutes after the original post[^][v]#245,452
@245,444 (SQUARED :3 !L.....AlN.)
Well if you're talking about GDP, the foreign aid would be a lesser percentage of GDP if you had a higher GDP so you could stop bitching so much. It's perfectly relevant.
SQUARED :3 !L.....AlN. (OP) replied with this 15 years ago, 5 minutes later, 36 minutes after the original post[^][v]#245,455
@previous (marvin !H0G.H/BnJg)
That's such a fucking stupid argument. You're basically saying we should increase our GDP just so we can pay for some other countries incompetence.
marvin !H0G.H/BnJg replied with this 15 years ago, 9 minutes later, 46 minutes after the original post[^][v]#245,456
@previous (SQUARED :3 !L.....AlN.)
Why do you not care about black people?
SQUARED :3 !L.....AlN. (OP) replied with this 15 years ago, 7 minutes later, 54 minutes after the original post[^][v]#245,457
@previous (marvin !H0G.H/BnJg)
Nice attempt at trolling, but I'm not racist. I do believe, however, that we shouldn't be giving money to countries such as India, who have a very large economy, are actively pursuing a space programme and spend £20 billion a year on defence.
marvin !H0G.H/BnJg replied with this 15 years ago, 9 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^][v]#245,458
@previous (SQUARED :3 !L.....AlN.)
Why do you not care about brown people?
SQUARED :3 !L.....AlN. (OP) replied with this 15 years ago, 4 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^][v]#245,460
@previous (marvin !H0G.H/BnJg)
They are utterly useless. Everything a brown person can do, a white person can do it better.
sluggy joined in and replied with this 15 years ago, 1 hour later, 2 hours after the original post[^][v]#245,479
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Not haggle endlessly over products that aren't eligible for price reductions! When I worked at staples Indian guys would come in trying to buy the floor models. It was annoying because they were relentless. The manager said that we got the full price back for returning floor models, but I dont know if that was the excuse to get him to shut up or for real.
INTERESTING FACT: I quit that job because some gay dudes came in and wanted to pay me to put together a desk they bought. I tried to say no, and they pestered me until I agreed. We had a service that would do it. I idnt want to ever run into them, so I just quit. I wanted to. I hated that job. I hated every job. I made that company hundreds a week selling replacement plans. I never saw a dime for it. Fuck them.
kimmo alm !AUIkTW/L46 joined in and replied with this 15 years ago, 1 hour later, 4 hours after the original post[^][v]#245,509
idiot
Killer Lettuce !!iNo3FkiZx replied with this 15 years ago, 8 minutes later, 4 hours after the original post[^][v]#245,511
@previous (kimmo alm !AUIkTW/L46)
He does have a point, the UK is spending more than it needs to on foreign aid. Maybe mass-protests would be a bit much, but people should question it.
buspuppie !!hkv8K5ZEY joined in and replied with this 15 years ago, 1 hour later, 5 hours after the original post[^][v]#245,532
Why didn't you just do it, and make some extra money?
Anonymous I joined in and replied with this 15 years ago, 5 hours later, 11 hours after the original post[^][v]#245,700
Foreign Aid by the state should be ended. It makes no sense to force Palestinian-Americans to support Israel, to make Armenian-Americans support Turkey, to make Russian-Americans support Georgia &c.
End foreign aid. Private charity to foreign causes is already much larger than government aid, and comes with no political strings attached. Foreign aid supports dictators, encourages wars, and enables control of smaller states by larger ones. This is an evil and should be ended. Voluntary, consensual private charity is the way forward.
sluggy replied with this 15 years ago, 3 days later, 3 days after the original post[^][v]#247,363
@245,532 (buspuppie !!hkv8K5ZEY)
they werent gonna pay me all that much and i didn't feel like doing it.