28-05-2013, 11:15 PM
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Who Cares
There is much spouting on many subjects, politics, religion, Gender Bending, but at the end of the day, how much do these major issues impact on your everyday lives, it's alright gobbing off on these issues, but would you alter your everyday regime, to fundamentally change the way things are?.
29-05-2013, 12:36 AM
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Re: Who Cares
They may not impact on our own personal lives but they impact on others' lives and on us in wider ways. My father brought me up to believe that everyone should do what little they can to improve the world and I agree with him. I've tried to do that in my life through the job I had and through the organisations I'm involved in now. Many ordinary people doing small things together can effect change.He also believed that you shouldn't moan and complain about things if you're not actively trying to change them even if it's just by voting or speaking up publicly and I go along with that too.
I would happily pay more tax if it was going to improve health and education. What did you have in mind as "altering your everyday regime"?
29-05-2013, 05:38 AM
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Re: Who Cares
Originally Posted by spitfire
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There is much spouting on many subjects, politics, religion, Gender Bending, but at the end of the day, how much do these major issues impact on your everyday lives, it's alright gobbing off on these issues, but would you alter your everyday regime, to fundamentally change the way things are?.
29-05-2013, 06:12 AM
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Re: Who Cares
Originally Posted by Alan Cooke
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Mindbender, I challenge you to donate £50 to Oxfam today. Do so and someone somewhere will find their life improved just slightly. Multiply that act by 1 billion and and great amount of good will have been done.
Google 'does aid help Africa' or such phrases and you will find a huge amount of literature that says no - just a few are pocketing the money. Dambisa Moyo is a highly qualified African and has written several books on the topic and is back in Africa trying to help her own people improve without foreign aid. This is what she says:
In Dead Aid, Dambisa Moyo describes the state of postwar development policy in Africa today and unflinchingly confronts one of the greatest myths of our time: that billions of dollars in aid sent from wealthy countries to developing African nations has helped to reduce poverty and increase growth.
In fact, poverty levels continue to escalate and growth rates have steadily declined—and millions continue to suffer.
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