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| MexPirate wrote on Wed, 13 June 2007 11:35 |
The amount of money the government pisses up the wall on complete nonsense would make this pale in comparison - I think it is about time we did something and wiping out the debt is a good start - there is something a little wrong with sitting on your ass in a comfy house eating McDonalds, surfing the internet whilst millions of people live in squalor dying of starvation, but most of the time people don't think about it or care giving money this way would basically be unnoticable and imo, morally right.
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If the government is pissing away so much as it is, why stretch it even further? Trust me, I hate government spending, and if I had the ability to, I'd be hated by just about every liberal in America.
I still think that it should be private organizations. The government hires private companies and overpays them because the companies think, "hey, it's the government, we can overcharge them and they don't give a fuck," because our government really doesn't give a fuck. They'll just throw money at the problems, and that 1% extra will be wasted.
If left to private organizations, you know the people doing this is out of compassion, not because they're getting paid a lot of money. Volunteers work harder because it's something they care about. Government-paid employees only care about the fat checks they'll receive.
As a few have said, the AIDS epidemic won't just disappear by money being thrown at it. You need people dedicated to helping these people be more careful. Government employees are not those people. As Memphis said, we can't help them that much when African governments sit on rich resources, but are too busy fighting civil wars. It'd be a lost cause trying to go in, spending money on relief, and have it blow up in our faces.
Edit: While I agree that most Americans are sitting on their asses getting fatter while people are starving, two wrongs don't make a right. Spending others' money when it's not your place to is just as wrong as those people spending it when those more deserving could benefit from it.
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