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IrishAm · 21-05-2012 05:17PM

Are you receiving an Irish wage or an Indian wage?

Wibbs · 21-05-2012 05:19PM

IrishAm wrote: »

Are you receiving an Irish wage or an Indian wage?

In fairness you kinda got burned.:)

Susie_Q · 21-05-2012 05:20PM

IrishAm wrote: »

Sucker.

An Irish NGO? Why are we providing aid to a country that has a space programme?

This is why:

- India is home to over one-third of the world's poor people; approximately 230 million hungry people live here.
- Over 35% of the population live on less than $1 per day.
- A child born in India is more likely to be malnourished than a child born in sub-Saharan Africa.
- Literacy rates in India are comparable to South Sudan.
- Over 90 million women in this country are illiterate.
- One out of every five children between the ages of 6-14 are not in school.
- India is also home to the largest number of child labourers in the entire world.

Aside from that, the caste system traps people into generations of grinding poverty, rural tribal people live without access to clean water or electricity and infrastructure in remote areas is virtually non-existent. Sex selective abortion is so prolific here that it is estimated that approx 30-70 million women are officially 'missing' in India (figure edited when corrected!).

If this country is not in need of aid then I don't know where is.

The King of Moo · 21-05-2012 05:20PM

IrishAm wrote: »

Sucker.

An Irish NGO? Why are we providing aid to a country that has a space programme?

Susie can answer better (EDIT: and did), but maybe it's because they spend their money on space rockets and not poor people?

Anyway, it's an NGO. Unless you also work for them or support them, why are you saying "we" are providing aid? They may or may not be goverment-funded.

IrishAm · 21-05-2012 05:21PM

Wibbs wrote: »

In fairness you kinda got burned.:)

Give me the average Irish wage and il live like a king in India for a year, too. "I bez helping the poor peoples" courtesy of the Irish taxpayer, of course.

Irish aid costs each and every household 500 brick each and every year.

IrishAm · 21-05-2012 05:23PM

Susie_Q wrote: »

This is why:

- India is home to over one-third of the world's poor people; approximately 230 million hungry people live here.
- Over 35% of the population live on less than $1 per day.
- A child born in India is more likely to be malnourished than a child born in sub-Saharan Africa.
- Literacy rates in India are comparable to South Sudan.
- Over 90 million women in this country are illiterate.
- One out of every five children between the ages of 6-14 are not in school.
- India is also home to the largest number of child labourers in the entire world.

Aside from that, the caste system traps people into generations of grinding poverty, rural tribal people live without access to clean water or electricity and infrastructure in remote areas is virtually non-existent. Sex selective abortion is so prolific here that it is estimated that approx 200 million women are officially 'missing' in India.

If this country is not in need of aid then I don't know where is.

Tell them to stop building rockets and conducting space programmes and start spending cash on education and feeding their people.

Susie_Q · 21-05-2012 05:25PM

IrishAm wrote: »

Tell them to stop building rockets and conducting space programmes and start spending cash on education and feeding their people.

Yeah, no problem, I'll just ring up the Prime Minister and give him instructions. Thanks for making such enormous problems so simple to fix.

IrishAm · 21-05-2012 05:26PM

Susie_Q wrote: »

Yeah, no problem, I'll just ring up the Prime Minister and give him instructions. Thanks for making such enormous problems so simple to fix.

No problem.

We owe India nothing. I want my 500 quid back.

Susie_Q · 21-05-2012 05:27PM

IrishAm wrote: »

No problem.

We owe India nothing. I want my 500 quid back.

I don't think ranting on the internet will help you with that.

The King of Moo · 21-05-2012 05:28PM

IrishAm wrote: »

No problem.

We owe India nothing. I want my 500 quid back.

Do you have to owe people in order to help them out?

What about helping people out of a sense of empathy, or basic human decency?

IrishAm · 21-05-2012 05:28PM

Susie_Q wrote: »

I don't think ranting on the internet will help you with that.

Are you on an Indian wage or an Irish wage?

IrishAm · 21-05-2012 05:29PM

The King of Moo wrote: »

Do you have to owe people in order to help them out?

What about helping people out of a sense of empathy, or basic human decency?

I am all charitied out. What good has aid done?

The King of Moo · 21-05-2012 05:32PM

IrishAm wrote: »

I am all charitied out. What good has aid done?

Seriously?

It's helped people, or, to put it another way, given them aid (clue's in the word: "aid").

Fed them, clothed them, given them shelter, given them means to live in a sustainable fashion so that they can help themselves and not rely on aid.

Why don't you just write this one off as a loss, and find something else to argue about?

21-05-2012 05:33PM

Susie_Q wrote: »

I think that's one of the worst things I've read on here. If you really mean that then I feel sorry for you. How inhuman do you have to be to feel that way? :mad: I'm disgusted.

I think the cynical awful "pay money and these children will magically stop being covered in flies" ads would have a lot to do with that
I would say we'd all have more sympathy otherwise
i have to say the docu i watched on india the other week was a lot more heartwrenching

Susie_Q · 21-05-2012 05:34PM

IrishAm wrote: »

I am all charitied out. What good has aid done?

Your argument is "What's the point in helping other people?"

Really?

Nodin · 21-05-2012 05:34PM

IrishAm wrote: »

I am all charitied out. .........

How did that happen? Are you a sleep-donater?

Napper Hawkins · 21-05-2012 05:35PM

230 million starving in India eh? Mental.

Out of interest, how many cows are there in India?

IrishAm · 21-05-2012 05:37PM

Susie_Q wrote: »

Your argument is "What's the point in helping other people?"

Really?

Countries become over reliant on aid. Why spend cash on our people, when the fools in the west will chuck us a few trillion.

Anyway, are you on an Irish or Indian wage?

21-05-2012 05:39PM

IrishAm wrote: »

Countries become over reliant on aid. Why spend cash on our people, when the fools in the west will chuck us a few trillion.

Anyway, are you on an Irish or Indian wage?

get a life and stop digging

Susie_Q · 21-05-2012 05:39PM

Napper Hawkins wrote: »

230 million starving in India eh? Mental.

Out of interest, how many cows are there in India?

Bleedin loads! The internet tells me somewhere in the region of 226 million.

Stray dogs (potentially with rabies) are also prolific here - there is approx one per every five people across the country. I walked to work one day (3km) and counted the number of stray dogs I saw... I got to 83 by the time I reached the office.

four18 · 21-05-2012 05:41PM

Facebook is frequented by sad bastards with virtual friends. No real friends just sad ****ers who feel compelled to tell you the are going to make ''A nice cup of tea'' and regard other sad bastards as ''friends'' who they would ignore if they actually met them

Napper Hawkins · 21-05-2012 05:50PM

four18 wrote: »

Facebook is frequented by sad bastards with virtual friends. No real friends just sad ****ers who feel compelled to tell you the are going to make ''A nice cup of tea'' and regard other sad bastards as ''friends'' who they would ignore if they actually met them

That's a fairly popular opinion to be honest (on here anyway) but also a fact, unfortunately. Most of my good friends are in Oz so it's useful for that at least.

RichieC · 21-05-2012 06:30PM

IrishAm wrote: »

Countries become over reliant on aid. Why spend cash on our people, when the fools in the west will chuck us a few trillion.

Anyway, are you on an Irish or Indian wage?

^
People become over reliant on talking bollocks.

cloptrop · 21-05-2012 06:33PM

I think afrcan women should be brought on the jeremy kyle show and be told to stick something on the end of it instead of being in charity ads.:rolleyes:

Nodin · 21-05-2012 06:37PM

cloptrop wrote: »

I think afrcan women should be brought on the jeremy kyle show and be told to stick something on the end of it instead of being in charity ads.:rolleyes:

Theres a native intelligence that just shines through in that post.

IrishAm · 21-05-2012 06:55PM

RichieC wrote: »

^
People become over reliant on talking bollocks.

A bankrupt country borrowing billions at high interest to send millions to a nation that operates a fucking space programme.

Makes perfect sense.

:rolleyes:

mikemac1 · 21-05-2012 06:58PM

There are Indian investors spending hundreds of millions operating a Formula One team

Maybe they can help their own country

IrishAm · 21-05-2012 06:59PM

mikemac1 wrote: »

There are Indian investors spending hundreds of millions operating a Formula One team

Maybe they can help their own country

The richest Irish citizen was born in India.

Forget the mans name, now.

cloptrop · 21-05-2012 07:03PM

IrishAm wrote: »

The richest Irish citizen was born in India.

Forget the mans name, now.

Indie Anna jones.

Dudess · 21-05-2012 10:22PM

RaRaRasputin wrote: »

I don't care if you think I'm cruel because I am right

You're not right. Your assertion that eating disorders are just first world problems, and thus ignoring all the evidence that they are serious and life-threatening psychological conditions, is completely wrong.

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