(February 5, 2016 at 7:15 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Not at all. If the pennies are so pinched that this aide comes at a cost of medical services currently being paid for...I can only assume that they would skimp on the least life threatening things they currently spend money on....and while that would be shitty..you'd still have it better than the refugees you'd be helping. A dollar goes farther in a warzone, and for people who have lost -everything-.
I do think they can do both. I don't think that everybody can. I think that people pitting health services against foreign aide are xenophobic fear mongering isolationists with a vested interest in that money -not- going to help refugees.
(unless, ofc, that's where -they- turn -their- profits...or tricks, in the case of politicians)
I find it appalling that a nation that, in living memory, has been completely propped up by another nation with problems all it's own, can even accommodate such a narrative.
I wish you would say what you mean more directly in your posts sometimes.
Which nations are you talking about? If you're talking about the loan of money to the UK by the US and Canada after the 2nd world war, that was a low interest rate loan and not aid and it was repaid.
And I'm guessing the bit above that is calling me a xenophobic fear mongering isolationist with a vested interest in that money. Well I already admitted I have a vested interest in the hospitals around me not being shit and the education systems and police being given more money, as for the rest I'm not sure.
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Impersonation is treason.
