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"International Aid Minister Anneliese Dodds resigns over Starmer’s decision to cut the foreign aid budget. She said that “ultimately, these cuts will remove food and healthcare from desperate people”. Has she tried visiting Britain lately?" Maybe when the last food bank closes and the homeless are re-homed then we can think about foreign aid. Although she's sticking to her principles, you can't eat or live in a them, Mrs x | |||
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"Plenty of people here with nothing never mind giving it away" The reason people here have nothing isn't because of foreign aid. We could do both, we just choose not to. | |||
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"Plenty of people here with nothing never mind giving it away The reason people here have nothing isn't because of foreign aid. We could do both, we just choose not to." This.. Anyone who thinks the wealth gap between the richest and the poorest in this society has got anything to do with foreign aid is seriously deluded.. | |||
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"Plenty of people here with nothing never mind giving it away The reason people here have nothing isn't because of foreign aid. We could do both, we just choose not to." I would rather we looked after people here first and only if we have a surplus allow it to be sent elsewhere.. No matter what flavour of socialism you wrap up the finances of the UK in, there is no endless supply of money, without causing extreme poverty. | |||
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"I guess fair play for resigning on principle. " I half agree, but then she had sold out her principles to go along with the Starmer project in my opinion. | |||
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"Meh, what good is the moral high ground if we are unable to defend ourselves if required. " From whom? The only thing we have done with our armed forces since WWII is meddle in other people's countries and generally make the world worse. | |||
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"Plenty of people here with nothing never mind giving it away The reason people here have nothing isn't because of foreign aid. We could do both, we just choose not to. I would rather we looked after people here first and only if we have a surplus allow it to be sent elsewhere.. No matter what flavour of socialism you wrap up the finances of the UK in, there is no endless supply of money, without causing extreme poverty. " Exactly this, said much better than I could, Mrs x | |||
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"Plenty of people here with nothing never mind giving it away The reason people here have nothing isn't because of foreign aid. We could do both, we just choose not to. I would rather we looked after people here first and only if we have a surplus allow it to be sent elsewhere.. No matter what flavour of socialism you wrap up the finances of the UK in, there is no endless supply of money, without causing extreme poverty. Exactly this, said much better than I could, Mrs x " But we do have an endless supply of money. We have a fiat currency, when the Government spends, it doesn't actually need any income to do so. Ok, there are side affects to this, but ultimately the argument "there's not enough money" is false. Look at all the Covid, Ukraine, etc. spending. When the Government wishes it can make as much money as it wishes. | |||
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"Plenty of people here with nothing never mind giving it away The reason people here have nothing isn't because of foreign aid. We could do both, we just choose not to. I would rather we looked after people here first and only if we have a surplus allow it to be sent elsewhere.. No matter what flavour of socialism you wrap up the finances of the UK in, there is no endless supply of money, without causing extreme poverty. Exactly this, said much better than I could, Mrs x But we do have an endless supply of money. We have a fiat currency, when the Government spends, it doesn't actually need any income to do so. Ok, there are side affects to this, but ultimately the argument "there's not enough money" is false. Look at all the Covid, Ukraine, etc. spending. When the Government wishes it can make as much money as it wishes. " Thank you! To quote a taxation expert: "how does a gov create money? It presses a button on a keyboard..." | |||
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"Plenty of people here with nothing never mind giving it away The reason people here have nothing isn't because of foreign aid. We could do both, we just choose not to. I would rather we looked after people here first and only if we have a surplus allow it to be sent elsewhere.. No matter what flavour of socialism you wrap up the finances of the UK in, there is no endless supply of money, without causing extreme poverty. Exactly this, said much better than I could, Mrs x But we do have an endless supply of money. We have a fiat currency, when the Government spends, it doesn't actually need any income to do so. Ok, there are side affects to this, but ultimately the argument "there's not enough money" is false. Look at all the Covid, Ukraine, etc. spending. When the Government wishes it can make as much money as it wishes. " Most countries have fiat currency. They could print it themselves. I’ve always wondered why the government doesn’t simply print a load of money and give every person in the country £5 million. Then we would all be rich and there wouldn’t be any problems. | |||
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"Plenty of people here with nothing never mind giving it away The reason people here have nothing isn't because of foreign aid. We could do both, we just choose not to. I would rather we looked after people here first and only if we have a surplus allow it to be sent elsewhere.. No matter what flavour of socialism you wrap up the finances of the UK in, there is no endless supply of money, without causing extreme poverty. Exactly this, said much better than I could, Mrs x But we do have an endless supply of money. We have a fiat currency, when the Government spends, it doesn't actually need any income to do so. Ok, there are side affects to this, but ultimately the argument "there's not enough money" is false. Look at all the Covid, Ukraine, etc. spending. When the Government wishes it can make as much money as it wishes. Most countries have fiat currency. They could print it themselves. I’ve always wondered why the government doesn’t simply print a load of money and give every person in the country £5 million. Then we would all be rich and there wouldn’t be any problems. " The issue is that we are not self sufficient, we have trading partners. Therefore, we have to maintain our currency value. However, when the government spends money on capital projects (internally) much of the money is taken back out of the system through tax etc. while at the same time sparking economic growth, employment etc. The same for funding the NHS and other public services. | |||
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"Meh, what good is the moral high ground if we are unable to defend ourselves if required. From whom? The only thing we have done with our armed forces since WWII is meddle in other people's countries and generally make the world worse." Ermmm Russia for starters or are you forgetting that they already carried out an attack on mainland Britain with a nerve agent killing innocent civilians. So yeah I'd prefer to have a better equipped armed forces available for the defence of the country or able to supply forces to assist NATO if required rather than virtue signalling about how much money we give to other countries which is particularly tasteless given how many people are sleeping rough or rely on food banks, but hey as long as other countries are ok our people can do one. 
No the UK has given hundreds of billions in aid and charity over the years and what has it got us?
Other than being invaded slowly by small boats by people with their hands out ready for free cash. | |||
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"Meh, what good is the moral high ground if we are unable to defend ourselves if required. From whom? The only thing we have done with our armed forces since WWII is meddle in other people's countries and generally make the world worse." Argentina The Falkland war The residents are British but where successful defendid and the terotry is still British. The big question is could the British forces put air defence down just one side of the UK if there was a threat? 🤔 | |||
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"Plenty of people here with nothing never mind giving it away The reason people here have nothing isn't because of foreign aid. We could do both, we just choose not to. I would rather we looked after people here first and only if we have a surplus allow it to be sent elsewhere.. No matter what flavour of socialism you wrap up the finances of the UK in, there is no endless supply of money, without causing extreme poverty. Exactly this, said much better than I could, Mrs x But we do have an endless supply of money. We have a fiat currency, when the Government spends, it doesn't actually need any income to do so. Ok, there are side affects to this, but ultimately the argument "there's not enough money" is false. Look at all the Covid, Ukraine, etc. spending. When the Government wishes it can make as much money as it wishes. Most countries have fiat currency. They could print it themselves. I’ve always wondered why the government doesn’t simply print a load of money and give every person in the country £5 million. Then we would all be rich and there wouldn’t be any problems. The issue is that we are not self sufficient, we have trading partners. Therefore, we have to maintain our currency value. However, when the government spends money on capital projects (internally) much of the money is taken back out of the system through tax etc. while at the same time sparking economic growth, employment etc. The same for funding the NHS and other public services. " The idea that there’s no limit to spending sounds nice in theory, but in reality, excessive money printing leads to poverty by a thousand cuts, high inflation, loss of wage value and the cost of living sky rocketing. As mentioned above there is a reason we don't all have 5 million printed off for us to be rich, because it wouldn’t make us rich, it would make our money worthless.. | |||
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"Plenty of people here with nothing never mind giving it away The reason people here have nothing isn't because of foreign aid. We could do both, we just choose not to. This.. Anyone who thinks the wealth gap between the richest and the poorest in this society has got anything to do with foreign aid is seriously deluded.." Really? There are supposedly 14.8m poeple in this country living below the livery line. The foreign aid budget was £14.3 billion, almost exactly £1000 for each of those people. 20 quid a week each or 80 quid a week for a family of 4. I know where I'd be allocating it - amd it wouldn't be propping up tinpot dictators or subsidising nuclear powers. | |||
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"Plenty of people here with nothing never mind giving it away The reason people here have nothing isn't because of foreign aid. We could do both, we just choose not to. I would rather we looked after people here first and only if we have a surplus allow it to be sent elsewhere.. No matter what flavour of socialism you wrap up the finances of the UK in, there is no endless supply of money, without causing extreme poverty. Exactly this, said much better than I could, Mrs x But we do have an endless supply of money. We have a fiat currency, when the Government spends, it doesn't actually need any income to do so. Ok, there are side affects to this, but ultimately the argument "there's not enough money" is false. Look at all the Covid, Ukraine, etc. spending. When the Government wishes it can make as much money as it wishes. Most countries have fiat currency. They could print it themselves. I’ve always wondered why the government doesn’t simply print a load of money and give every person in the country £5 million. Then we would all be rich and there wouldn’t be any problems." If you want to devalue currency. It'd be like having a spare fiver in ya purse. | |||
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