RE: 2 Billion pounds for Syrian aid given by David Cameron.
February 5, 2016 at 8:01 pm
(This post was last modified: February 5, 2016 at 8:10 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
They haven't -actually- cut them back on account of any aid to Syria...and there's no reason that they would be necessarily cut back by an increase in foreign aid spending. There are plenty of people who would like to control the narrative so that people read it that way though, if nothing else it absolves them of their own responsibility in the cutbacks..and it probably covers for a whole hell of alot of incompetence and grift. This thread is about syrian aid..............so of course we're talking refugees and syria? They can't be ignored, in context.
I do think that the NHS could buckle up, if it were squeezed by actual rather than imposed constraints, yes. I think it can buckle up when It's squeezed by imposed constraints as well. The saying you closed with seems spot on. If there was some situation where a choice had to be made between medical services and foreign aid (where one invariably and inescapably affected the other)..it's time to put on the hard wood shoes and -still- send the money to help.
Honestly, we have it too good to complain about a few billion euros, or pounds, or dollars... in the face of these people in this manner. Yes, our own systems are troubled...but our own systems still exist, we still have -alot- of something.
I do think that the NHS could buckle up, if it were squeezed by actual rather than imposed constraints, yes. I think it can buckle up when It's squeezed by imposed constraints as well. The saying you closed with seems spot on. If there was some situation where a choice had to be made between medical services and foreign aid (where one invariably and inescapably affected the other)..it's time to put on the hard wood shoes and -still- send the money to help.
Honestly, we have it too good to complain about a few billion euros, or pounds, or dollars... in the face of these people in this manner. Yes, our own systems are troubled...but our own systems still exist, we still have -alot- of something.
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