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irish gov give ANOTHER 500,000 to africa....

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  • #2
    Jaafa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,621 ✭✭✭Jaafa


    Thats disgraceful. How dare they give away money to the needy, sick and dying children. tut tut. For shame.


  • #3
    teol
    Closed Accounts Posts: 292 ✭✭teol


    This is bull****. Why not drop the trade barriers with Africa and then stop the foreign aid that does **** all.


  • #4
    orourkeda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,916 ✭✭✭✭orourkeda


    We cant afford it but it persists.

    I dont know why


  • #5
    7sr2z3fely84g5
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,571 ✭✭✭7sr2z3fely84g5


    Let the church do it instead,that will show them.


  • #6
    swiftblade
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,551 ✭✭✭swiftblade


    Bono sucks




    That is all...


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  • #7
    orourkeda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,916 ✭✭✭✭orourkeda


    Jaafa wrote: »
    Thats disgraceful. How dare they give away money to the needy, sick and dying children. tut tut. For shame.

    If it works they may consider doing it here.


  • #8
    Saila
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,751 ✭✭✭Saila


    €500 000 is nothing, get over it


  • #9
    0O7
    Closed Accounts Posts: 229 ✭✭0O7


    Jaafa wrote: »
    Thats disgraceful. How dare they give away money to the needy, sick and dying children. tut tut. For shame.


    they dont seem to give it to the needy here???


  • #10
    0O7
    Closed Accounts Posts: 229 ✭✭0O7


    Saila wrote: »
    €500 000 is nothing, get over it


    another being the key word


  • #11
    aidan_walsh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,208 ✭✭✭✭aidan_walsh


    rabble rabble feckin foreigners staying over there and taking all our money rabble


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  • #12
    Eoin_Sheehy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 274 ✭✭Eoin_Sheehy


    Better that than giving another cent to bondholders.


  • #13
    Awful_Bliss
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 262 ✭✭Awful_Bliss


    Until these countries stop squandering money they shouldn't get another penny.


  • #14
    Saila
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,751 ✭✭✭Saila


    0O7 wrote: »
    another being the key word

    what was the rest for this year?


  • #15
    Logical Fallacy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,933 ✭✭✭Logical Fallacy


    lol, Enda only sent it over to grease the wheels and get the 12million the original email told him about.


  • #16
    WindSock
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,239 ✭✭✭✭WindSock


    Weh weh weh. Yeah we might have some problems but no one is ****ing starving to death here.


  • #17
    Jaafa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,621 ✭✭✭Jaafa


    0O7 wrote: »
    they dont seem to give it to the needy here???

    Uh huh. So you never heard of the dole, child benefit, medical cards, rent allowance....oh wait I forgot all the foreigners are taking them.


  • #18
    El Weirdo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,651 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    Awful_Bliss wrote: »
    Until these countries stop squandering money they shouldn't get another penny.
    But you're happy for us to take money from the likes of the Germans to bail out **** who took a few punts on our banks that went tits up?


  • #19
    thermo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,440 ✭✭✭✭thermo


    i hope its coming out of the politicians pocket and not our own. its a disgrace sending money out of the country in this day and age.


  • #20
    whatdoicare
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,398 ✭✭✭whatdoicare


    WindSock wrote: »
    Weh weh weh. Yeah we might have some problems but no one is ****ing starving to death here.

    According to st Vincent de Paul, alot of families are not far off it with one in eleven children living in consistent poverty.


  • #21
    WindSock
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,239 ✭✭✭✭WindSock


    Awful_Bliss wrote: »
    Until these countries stop squandering money they shouldn't get another penny.


    Yeah yeah, in the meantime, let them eat cake.

    Wtf is wrong with people? There are thousands dying and we're moaning about 500 poxy k being sent over. But no, let them die till Africa sorts out its problems.


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  • #22
    0O7
    Closed Accounts Posts: 229 ✭✭0O7


    Saila wrote: »
    what was the rest for this year?


    being honest im not sure of the total amount but i remember 3mil being given in feb.

    now dont get me wrong, im all up for charity etc, i will give money if i have it, just imo i dont think our gov can justify giving it at their own accord, when alot of people, tax payers and hard working people are currently struggling to put food on their table or pay their mortgage etc.


  • #23
    WindSock
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,239 ✭✭✭✭WindSock


    whatdoicare wrote: »
    According to st Vincent de Paul, alot of families are not far off it with one in eleven children living in consistent poverty.

    Poverty in Ireland today does not equal a famine.


  • #24
    7sr2z3fely84g5
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,571 ✭✭✭7sr2z3fely84g5


    0O7 wrote: »
    being honest im not sure of the total amount but i remember 3mil being given in feb.

    now dont get me wrong, im all up for charity etc, i will give money if i have it, just imo i dont think our gov can justify giving it at their own accord, when alot of people, tax payers and hard working people are currently struggling to put food on their table or pay their mortgage etc.

    Agreed,there was fck all given to people who had their houses damaged during the last flash floods.





    *even if some the houses where actually built in flood risk areas,something that FF ignored during the boom.


  • #25
    admiralofthefleet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,515 ✭✭✭✭admiralofthefleet


    Jaafa wrote: »
    Thats disgraceful. How dare they give away money to the needy, sick and dying children. tut tut. For shame.

    yeah the needy, sick and dying children in Ireland dont need it:rolleyes:


  • #26
    shamrockone
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26 ✭shamrockone


    I think there is a world of difference between struggling and actual starvation.


  • #27
    laugh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,745 ✭✭✭laugh


    The money is for water for human beings, we probably spend that much on soft drinks here in an hour.


  • #28
    Tehachapi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 273 ✭✭Tehachapi


    WindSock wrote: »
    Yeah yeah, in the meantime, let them eat cake.

    Wtf is wrong with people? There are thousands dying and we're moaning about 500 poxy k being sent over. But no, let them die till Africa sorts out its problems.

    Yeah because the billions and billions we have been donating since the 80's have done them the world of good :rolleyes:

    The problem people have is that money doesn't go to the cause. It goes to fund the charity board of director's new BMWs firstly, then to their ground-staff, then the adminstration/travel costs, then to african war-lords to buy weapons, then maybe a fraction of a percentage to the actual cause.


  • #29
    whatdoicare
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,398 ✭✭✭whatdoicare


    WindSock wrote: »
    Poverty in Ireland today does not equal a famine.

    Poverty means people going hungry, have lack of adequate accommodation, heating, access to clean water, clothes, healthcare and education. This is what is happening here every day. The very same problems that the poorer in AAfrica are facing.
    Having no food and water means having no food and water - no matter what way you look at it.


  • #30
    Mr. Presentable
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,495 ✭✭✭Mr. Presentable


    It's not enough. The poor in this country are fabulously wealthy compared with the poor in most of the rest of the world.

    If begrudgery and mealymouthedness could be currency we'd be rich right here in AH.


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  • #31
    laugh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,745 ✭✭✭laugh


    whatdoicare wrote: »
    Having no food and water means having no food and water - no matter what way you look at it.

    There is having no food and water and dying because of it and there is being malnourished because your ma smokes 40 Johnny Blue a day.


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