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money
« on: May 18, 2011, 12:53:23 pm »

saw this in the paper today thought G B WAS BROKE

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Re: money
« Reply #1 on: May 18, 2011, 12:55:02 pm »

Now you know why!  :}
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« Reply #2 on: May 18, 2011, 12:56:40 pm »

but dose the goverment know what we now
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The long Build

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« Reply #3 on: May 18, 2011, 01:05:59 pm »

I have always said that when I win the Lottery big style, You know not any of the small ones but anything over say 50 million  I will donate to Charity,( I would donate as well if I won smaller but I amm hoping for the 50 Million) However not with Cash.. I will find out what specific equipment they need and then source it myself and donate that, it will also have a clause on it stating that it can not be sold within 5 years without my Consent, as I am not having my money pay for new carpets and wallpaper.   <*< <*<
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« Reply #4 on: May 18, 2011, 01:27:47 pm »

Hopefully, we're going to save 4point odd Billion on the NHS computer system by writing off the 2.6 Billion we've aready spent on it when it should have cost 7 but it won't work.

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Re: money
« Reply #5 on: May 18, 2011, 05:06:29 pm »


... as I am not having my money pay for new carpets and wallpaper.


I don't think it's carpets and wallpaper they buy!  When I've seen TV reports on starving masses, especially in Africa, and the camera pans away from the small baby covered in flies - there is usually a lorry load of well fed "army types" all carrying the latest guns!
I suppose they need the guns to stop the starving stealing the "army rations" we have paid for  %) %) >>:-( >>:-(

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« Reply #6 on: May 18, 2011, 05:53:15 pm »

I have always said that when I win the Lottery big style, You know not any of the small ones but anything over say 50 million  I will donate to Charity,( I would donate as well if I won smaller but I amm hoping for the 50 Million) However not with Cash.. I will find out what specific equipment they need and then source it myself and donate that, it will also have a clause on it stating that it can not be sold within 5 years without my Consent, as I am not having my money pay for new carpets and wallpaper.   <*< <*<
If I won that sort of money I would buy my own 10 acre lake  :} :-))
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« Reply #7 on: May 18, 2011, 06:10:00 pm »

Nobody knows where the "Foreign Aid" actual goes to... Maybe the government use it to bribe their "friends" or maybe they just pocket it....I have always thought that it's the perfect scam.... 
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« Reply #8 on: May 18, 2011, 06:54:47 pm »

If I won that sort of money I would buy my own 10 acre lake  :} :-))
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Well that was just assumed as any way.. Only 10 acre
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Re: money
« Reply #9 on: May 18, 2011, 07:00:25 pm »

Once it's gone it's gone
Despots pockets
Certainly not to the people who need it
Even the Red Cross and other agencies
lose sight of the aid after it lands in the
country.
Did the Bangladesh floods in the 60's and
saw it at first hand what was being squirreled away
by the 'official' organisation on the ground

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« Reply #10 on: May 18, 2011, 08:51:07 pm »

  Where does the money go? Thirty-odd years ago you always knew when the family planning teams had been around in Afghanistan and NWFP (Pakistan) - the kids all had balloons.
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« Reply #11 on: May 19, 2011, 08:41:17 am »

Well that was just assumed as any way.. Only 10 acre
Yep plenty big enough for all to enjoy  :}
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Re: money
« Reply #12 on: May 19, 2011, 09:28:33 am »

8.7bn - a big number for most people - is just over half a percent of the UK's GDP.

I see that as a cheap sum for continuing security and goodwill from potentially unstable or failing nations. Certainly it is compared to the 25bn recently quoted for a new set of ballistic missile submarines.

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« Reply #13 on: May 19, 2011, 02:23:15 pm »

pakistan   india  FAILING NATIONS !!!  i do not think so
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« Reply #14 on: May 19, 2011, 03:35:46 pm »

Me neither.

Try potentially unstable.
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« Reply #15 on: May 20, 2011, 07:43:23 pm »

Some of you older members (I should have said "long serving" members) may recall that in my long running saga about my life at sea I talked about what I saw happening in Djibouti in 1979. A ship loaded with foodstuffs was tied up astern of a Russian ship.
The food (I think came from the answers to one of Geldorfs appeals) was loaded directly into the Russian ship, which was simultaneously offloading mobile weapons platforms.
Never just give money if you can avoid it. Can't think how, but there must be a way. BY.
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« Reply #16 on: May 20, 2011, 08:04:50 pm »

also what happened to the money that bob  geldodfs  and co received on  save the world  thing millions
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« Reply #17 on: May 20, 2011, 08:50:57 pm »

This is an answer to Brian ,or rather another scheme I was witness to . 1968 we had just loaded about 10000 tons wheat in B C  Canada ,a gift to the starving in I ndia , we docked outside Columbo ,couldnt get in ,disbute over who unloads , next thing we are told to give it to the fish ,it had got wet and was dangerous ,this was because of waiting for 7 days ,with the hatches open waiting for the barges . Needless to say the good people of B C  were never told .sad innit ,and these things still happen .
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« Reply #18 on: May 20, 2011, 11:19:29 pm »

Can any one reasonably justify giving millions of pounds to any nation that
spends money on building nuclear weapons while a large proportion of its
own populace starves ?
I don't mind donating clothes or food in a natural disaster,
but governments and dictators buying arms and military equipment
while holding out the begging bowl for its people makes my blood boil.

When the men in charge start to look after the poor and needy on  their
own doorstep then I will be more generous when the envelopes arrive in the post
asking for our money.
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« Reply #19 on: May 20, 2011, 11:41:43 pm »

Im not going to go into details but having worked (IT Contract) for a well known so called "Charity" its one you are all probably all well aware of I wouldn't give them a penny.  The money that was wasted was horrific

Donate clothes etc yes but watch who exactly is getting them,

My money goes to deserving Charities either in the UK or Finland.
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« Reply #20 on: May 20, 2011, 11:46:56 pm »

...governments and dictators buying arms and military equipment
while holding out the begging bowl for its people makes my blood boil.

Bit like this country then, richtea. Do we need £25bn of new ballistic missile subs - plus a couple of bloated aircraft carriers - while the people are "being held responsible" in terms of bailing out the bankers? Or should that be re-lining their pockets?

To be honest, I'm sick of the hypocrisy I get foistered on me from Westminster. Good thing I voted SNP.  %)

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« Reply #21 on: May 20, 2011, 11:58:55 pm »

Your lucky you have a political party that looks after your area.
I always vote, but now I waste it by voting UKIP.
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« Reply #22 on: May 21, 2011, 05:49:39 pm »

Your lucky you have a political party that looks after your area.

Good to see someone with a sense of Humour....anyhow...
I watched a program recently about overseas aid given by China.....superb system,
they ask the country what they need (program showed a hospital) sent over a team to build it (all the construction team stayed on site in portacabins no fancy hotels)
meanwhile they took uni graduates or hghly qualified people from the county to china to train them as doctors/ nurses etc
by the time the hospital was built the sent over chinese doctors for a few years to get it up and running then handed it over to the doctors/ nurses they had trained to run
then sent over required medicines and materials to keep the hospital running then a team from the chinese embassy looked in occasionaly to see how it was coping and help when required.

Saved far more money than our way of giving them money hand over fist to squander away.
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« Reply #23 on: May 21, 2011, 06:13:19 pm »

Money?? Hm, yes, I remember that. Crinkly, jingly stuff....  but then I got married.  <:(

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« Reply #24 on: May 21, 2011, 06:24:31 pm »

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Saved far more money than our way of giving them money hand over fist to squander away.

And in exchange they were granted a monopoly of the Country's mineral rights...
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