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| How would you spend £30billion? | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: May 26 2008, 11:00 AM (327 Views) | |
| sarah_blueparrot | May 26 2008, 11:00 AM Post #1 |
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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/envi...icle3993299.ece
I would choose tackling overpopulation, and I'm surprised that it's not on the list. |
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| Mark | May 26 2008, 06:23 PM Post #2 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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I would spend it all to eliminate the personal income tax and fractional reserve banking practices. Oh, and to eliminate the Federal Reserve as well. |
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| kenny | May 26 2008, 06:52 PM Post #3 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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I'd pay down my mortgage. Then I'd steal Crash's woman away. |
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| Red Rice | May 26 2008, 07:01 PM Post #4 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Babes and beer. |
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Civilisation, I vaguely realized then - and subsequent observation has confirmed the view - could not progress that way. It must have a greater guiding principle to survive. To treat it as a carcase off which each man tears as much as he can for himself, is to stand convicted a brute, fit for nothing better than a jungle existence, which is a death-struggle, leading nowhither. I did not believe that was the human destiny, for Man individually was sane and reasonable, only collectively a fool. I hope the gunner of that Hun two-seater shot him clean, bullet to heart, and that his plane, on fire, fell like a meteor through the sky he loved. Since he had to end, I hope he ended so. But, oh, the waste! The loss! - Cecil Lewis | |
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| sue | May 26 2008, 08:30 PM Post #5 |
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I think that's a good thought, Sarah. Would cover quite a lot of the options they're discussing;" malnutrition and hunger; education; the role of women" So where would you start? I've always thought education, education, education. Women need to know they are more than baby making machines, and it doesn't make much sense to keep popping babies when you have no money for food, clothing, shelter, education for those babies. |
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| sarah_blueparrot | May 26 2008, 11:44 PM Post #6 |
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Yes, education would be a good start. There's no point handing out pills and condoms if the knowledge isn't there to start with. Of course it would a gruesome law, but following the Chinese and limiting every family worldwide to one child would go a long way to solving these problems in 25 years or so. :mellow: Or maybe families should have to prove that they can afford children... Oh my. These ideas are sounding a little too socialist for my liking! |
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| jon-nyc | May 27 2008, 01:01 AM Post #7 |
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lol Kenny. Sarah - if the population were to shrink so drastically who would pay our pensions? |
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| Moonbat | May 27 2008, 02:38 AM Post #8 |
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I don't know if i would actually do this but i have though that perhaps if one had the resources it would be worth trying to "fix" a single (small) developing world country. Go to some African country, stand for election and tell the people that if they elect you for 15 years or so (maybe 30) you will spend 30 billion making their lives better. (I.e you essentially become a benevolent dictator) Then massively control the border the country and pour resources into education, healthcare and constructing a working economy. 30 billion is a lot of money but on a global scale it's nothing, in terms of GNP of developed countries it's a drop in the ocean. If you could show the world that we really can fix the issues faced by developing nations. Not just patch them up a bit but actually solve problems so future generations are definitively better off. Then suddenly the imperative to do so would hugely increase. The humanitarian problems the developing world faces are so extreme that all charitable work feels like a drop in the ocean like it's just giving someone who's got a an axe stuck into them some asprin. But if you could give a proof of principle, if you could show that it's possible to take the axe out - to transform an entire country - then this notion might be dispelled hence the single success could be a catalyst for a global effort on a scale unseen before. Of course that's assuming that one can actually fix a country, that it's possible to do. I know plenty of people who will say that it isn't. I have no expertise, so maybe they are right. I don't know but really money is nothing more than a ticket to human endeavour and we can do quite a lot. You would have to spend a significant amount on figuring out how to spend the rest of your resources to maximum effect but i don't see why in principle it could not be done. Perhaps the timescales are too long perhaps you would need 100 years to get anywhere and by that time other developing world countries would already doing much better. Still i think it's an interesting idea. |
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| sarah_blueparrot | May 27 2008, 08:05 AM Post #9 |
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Yes, an interesting idea, Moonbat. I'm not sure if £30b would be enough for the development of every aspect of life for one country, and immigration laws would have to be tightly controlled to stop flooding. It would provide a good example of how and what to tackle, if it worked, but it seems a bit unfair on the poor neighbouring countries. |
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| Frank_W | May 27 2008, 08:08 AM Post #10 |
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Hookers and blow, FTW!!!!
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| sarah_blueparrot | May 27 2008, 08:14 AM Post #11 |
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:lol: Mr _W for President! |
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| Frank_W | May 27 2008, 08:15 AM Post #12 |
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Anatomy Prof: "The human body has about 20 sq. meters of skin." Me: "Man, that's a lot of lampshades!" | |
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