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it’s only money

Just recently, Drew focused on aid of a foreign nature and had a few choice words to say. Well, things aren’t too much different over here except the UK hasn’t the economy to support things on the same scale. Or the population of course. So all things being relative, the bottom line is that things suck.

The former bland conservative PM, Sir John Major got on his hobby horse a few days ago, and said he was proud of the foreign aid the UK gives away and suggested that the public should be proud too. Oh right. The public here should be very proud of spending on things like:

£300,000 to NUT.  That’s the National Union of Teachers.  What for? Teaching? Well, in a manner of speaking I guess. The money was to make teachers ...

“Global agents of change.” Say what?  What kind of change?  Climate? Whatever.  It’s only money.

Then there was £241,000 spent on a worthy cause for the kiddies.  Everyone wants to do nice things for kids. In this case, the govt. gave the money to a UK theater company in order to teach the kiddies a Brazilian dance.  Isn’t that nice?  Hey. It’s only money.

The G-8 nations in ‘05 pledged to spend 0.7% of GNI (gross national income) on aid.
Here’s how that broke down among the top 5 last year. 

Britain ..... 0.56%
France ..... 0.5 %
Germany 0.38%
USA ....... 0.21%
Russia ...... 0.05%

Sir John Major: foreign spending isn’t just right - it should make us proud

former Conservative Prime Minister John Major argues that David Cameron’s commitment to aid is bold, necessary and right.

It has become fashionable in some quarters to see the Coalition Government’s decision to protect the life-saving aid budget as a sign of waste and futile modernisation.
The argument runs something like this: the Conservative Party’s commitment to tackling global poverty and disease was never anything more than a handy fig-leaf of modernisation, designed to win over liberal-minded voters; now that times are tough it should be discarded.
And it doesn’t really matter because – in any event – it’s all wasted anyway.
This argument is wholly wrong. Its advocates miss two critical points: first, that our Party’s commitment to Aid pre-dates David Cameron and is based on conviction not calculation; and second, that every pound of Britain’s - still relatively small - aid budget is amongst the best value of any Government spending.
Our party’s commitment to protecting the Aid budget was made six years ago when Michael Howard was leader.

It was driven – not by electoral calculation – but by a sober assessment of Britain’s place in the world, of the immense need in developing countries, and of the significant changes in the
effective use of Aid over the last 20 years.

Right. Lets see what the figures are.
India, with its own nuclear program and space program …
£295 million
Ethiopia
£214 million
Bangladesh
£149 million

Planned growth in the foreign aid budget 2010 - 2011-06-06
£7.8 BILLION
2014 – 2015
£11.5 BILLION

I guess the question always asked is .... where the hell does it end?  The answer naturally is, It Doesn’t!

And then of course there is .....

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But hey .... It’s only money.

UPDATE

In the morning paper on June 7.  I toleya they were nuts.  Not all of them tho as he is taking some heat from the party. Take a look.

Backlash as minister boasts ‘Be as proud of our £12bn foreign aid bill as you are of the Army’
By JASON GROVES, POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT

Lavish spending on foreign aid is making Britain a ‘development superpower’ and voters should take the same pride in it as they do in the Armed Forces and the Queen, a senior minister said yesterday.

International Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell admitted the Coalition was facing ‘bracing’ criticism over its decision to increase aid spending by 34 per cent to £12billion at a time of austerity at home.

But he insisted the money was achieving ‘brilliant’ results and making Britain admired around the world. His comments sparked an angry backlash from Tory MPs last night, with one accusing him of talking ‘complete tosh’.

SOURCE


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