A Socialist with a nutsack(Whiney Capitalists/Libertarians take note)

[eek.]

Whether he succeeds or fails, at least he gave it a fuxxing go.

Britain has promised to pay 10% of the foreign debt bill of
the entire developing world under what Mr Brown has dubbed
a "new Marshall plan".

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It will also pay 10% of the southern African country's £1.07bn debt to international lenders such as the World Bank and IMF, the UK chancellor said.

Mr Brown was speaking in Mozambique's capital, Maputo, as part of a six-day African tour.

On Friday, he signed a debt-relief deal with Tanzania and promised similar deals for 70 other developing nations.





Speaking in Maputo, Mr Brown said he was confident Mozambique could use the money it saved to invest in education, health and infrastructure development.

He said: "It is so important that the numbers of people living in poverty in this country have fallen as a result of more investment in education, health and poverty programmes and they should continue to fall."

Britain has promised to pay 10% of the foreign debt bill of the entire developing world under what Mr Brown has dubbed a "new Marshall plan".

Under the plan, which will cost Britain £1bn, developing countries must promise to spend the money they save on education, health and welfare.

The chancellor says he hopes other G8 and European countries will follow the UK's lead.

His visit to Mozambique has included meetings with the country's outgoing President, Joaquim Chissano, President elect Armando Guebuza and Prime Minister Luisa Diogo.

He toured a sugar factory outside Maputo and was due to visit Maputo port.

Mr Brown will head to South Africa later on Saturday for the final leg of the tour, which began in Kenya.



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[Phaedrus]

What a laugh. It's easy to be cavalier with other people's money.

British plan to steal from British and give to non-British: £ 1 Billion

Voluntary donations from private British citizens and companies to charities worldwide in 2003: £ 7.1 billion

Why do you hate your countrymen so much eek?


Phaedrus

 

[eek.]

Interesting stuff, 'charity' being a pretty broad term.(non-profit making)
I recall one setup that would pray for all the poor people in Bosnia when you donated...and keep the cash for themselves. Very charitable....
(a good high margin capitalist enterprise

)

Most of it in the UK goes on medical research (they have high profile publicity.)

Overseas relief gets 11%, so about 700 million.
The rest looks pretty internal.

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US giving was $240 billion, which is mighty impressive

until you scratch the surface...

Its all internal stuff...
50% is religion and education.(have you guys got no schools??)
If you build some decent schools you can release 31 billion bananas annually for the needy people in Africa.

Don't you guys give stuff to overseas charities?
Is it in International affairs 5.3 billion...2.2% ?

http://www.aafrc.org/about_aafrc/bytypeof67.html

 

[Phaedrus]

Wait, wait, let me try to wrap my brains around these points.

1) British people voluntarily donating more than £ 7 billion a year does not count as helping their fellow man.

2) Religious scam artists, who have existed since the dawn of civilisation, are indicative of a flaw in capitalism.

3) Americans voluntarily and privately donate more money to charity each year than the GDP of Switzerland, but because they don't donate on things you personally think they should, America sucks.

3)a) The "paltry" $ 5.3 billion that Americans voluntarily and privately donated to international affairs in 2004 exceeds the stolen, misappropriated funds redistributed (not to be mistaken with "given") by any single government on earth, with the exception of France, Germany, Japan, and the US government itself. But, it is still not enough; ergo America sucks.

WTF eek? Seriously?


Phaedrus

 

[eek.]

I forgot.

You guys don't have free healthcare.
You don't have free education (especially higher education)

So up to 70% of it is religion, education and healthcare.

how...Victorian

How can the US run up such a huge deficit with no free healthcare and education? People must be getting $500 a week on welfare...

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P.
The US aid on your list includes special equipment stuff to help poor people, like f-16 jet fighters.
Its distorted by military handouts of bunkerbusters etc, especially to places like Israel Egypt Korea etc.

Xpanda had you at something like 25th on the list of real charitable donors.

Japan looks pretty impressive.
I seem to recall that they used aid donations to influence small countries to vote against a ban on whaling.
not very charitable of them...

 

[PatPatriot]

Divide up all the worlds money and in 5 years everyone will be at basically the same finacial spot as before it was re-distributed.

fxckin pie in the sky non-sense