Overseas AID

[GEWAGON]

I was wondering why we give overseas aid based on 0.7% GDP shouldn't we pay all our bills first, and then give Aid .
So basically it should be 0.7% NDP (net domestic product)
i.e. fk all as we are broke !!
who agrees ?

[RichardD]

AID = official line
BRIBES = line with more truth in it.

[simoid]

GEWAGON said:

I was wondering why we give overseas aid based on 0.7% GDP shouldn't we pay all our bills first, and then give Aid .
So basically it should be 0.7% NDP (net domestic product)
i.e. fk all as we are broke !!
who agrees ?

That's not Net Domestic Product...

[BoRED S2upid]

When do they atart paying us aid? few years time these countries will have more than us if we continue the way we are!

[Hooli]

GEWAGON said:

I was wondering why we give overseas aid based on 0.7% GDP shouldn't we pay all our bills first, and then give Aid .
So basically it should be 0.7% NDP (net domestic product)
i.e. fk all as we are broke !!
who agrees ?

I agree. Sod the bribes angle, we can build things here for once.

[London424]

Hooli said:

GEWAGON said:

I was wondering why we give overseas aid based on 0.7% GDP shouldn't we pay all our bills first, and then give Aid .
So basically it should be 0.7% NDP (net domestic product)
i.e. fk all as we are broke !!
who agrees ?

I agree. Sod the bribes angle, we can build things here for once.

Are you prepared to pay for it?

[Cupramax]

Yeah, just saw this on the news, major piss boiler with the state this countries in, and not only that, it's gone up from 8.3 billion last year to 11. Something this year!!!! It's a fking joke, just pissing our money up countries that either waste it on dictators or internal wars. Just think what the 3 billion or so rise alone could do for schools, hospitals police etc...

[powerstroke]

Perhaps they think its cheaper to apease foreign powers than invest in our armed forces???

[Steameh]

powerstroke said:

Perhaps they think its cheaper to apease foreign powers than invest in our armed forces???

Or perhaps we get business from these countries on the back of our donations

[Shar2]

Steameh said:

Or perhaps we get business from these countries on the back of our donations

Well that doesn't seem to be working very well these days.

[Randy Winkman]

hIsn't the overseas aid budget a sort of PR budget? Just an idea.

[Caulkhead]

GEWAGON said:

I was wondering why we give overseas aid based on 0.7% GDP

Because that's the amount we signed up to give in the UN agreement.

[AnonSpoilsport]

If the general principle is making you puce with anger, how about turning green?


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/clima...


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2243192/Se...


Killing those nasty co2s with (more of) your taxes, win-win...

[Hooli]

London424 said:

Hooli said:

GEWAGON said:

I was wondering why we give overseas aid based on 0.7% GDP shouldn't we pay all our bills first, and then give Aid .
So basically it should be 0.7% NDP (net domestic product)
i.e. fk all as we are broke !!
who agrees ?

I agree. Sod the bribes angle, we can build things here for once.

Are you prepared to pay for it?

Yes, because I don't buy loads n loads of pointless st which everyone else seems to think they need.

[Elroy Blue]

Caulkhead said:

Because that's the amount we signed up to give in the UN agreement.

What's this 'WE' business. Some Politicians with their slimey little fingers in the pie signed up for it.

Aid...take from the poor of rich countries to give to the rich of poor countries. It's a national disgrace

[simoid]

Elroy Blue said:

Aid...take from the poor of rich countries to give to the rich of poor countries. It's a national disgrace

How much is being taken from the poor? Do you know how our taxation system works?

[Elroy Blue]

simoid said:

How much is being taken from the poor? Do you know how our taxation system works?

PH poster in entirely missing the point shocker.

[AJS-]

I don't buy the (dubious) defence that foreign aid is a polite word for bribing foreign officials. Let companies do the bribing if needed, otherwise it's still just a form of subsidy.

[ralphrj]

AJS- said:

Let companies do the bribing if needed, otherwise it's still just a form of subsidy.

Surely the Bribery Act 2010 makes that impossible?

[AJS-]

ralphrj said:

AJS- said:

Let companies do the bribing if needed, otherwise it's still just a form of subsidy.

Surely the Bribery Act 2010 makes that impossible?

I'm sure we also have guidelines and even laws prohibiting the government from bribing foreign officials, and even if not the moral hazard it puts in the way of whoever decides where our aid goes to is probably worse than letting the companies do it themselves.