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Dbass · 06-27-2005, 01:24 PM

I was up until 5 last night watching a rerun of Meet the Press with Bono of U2 talking about the Live 8 cause and the upcoming G8 summit in Scotland. I was moved, but I wonder if me being moved is a result of my heavy liberal bias and idealism, or because it really is a worthy cause and we really can do something about it.
For those of you who don't know, the G8 are the 8 most powerful men in the world. This year, the other 7 will begin to contribute .7 percent of their budget to aid for Africa to fight against AIDS and poverty (3000 people a day die from mosquito bites, that's 3 a second....we thought September 11 was a tragedy, 3000 once in the nations history!). The US contributes .17 percent, and at this rate will contribute only 1/4th the amount of the European nations. Regardless of how you feel our budget is being used, isn't that a little sad? We are, after all, the strongest nation in the world (literally!) and we will contribute only 1/8th of the total aid in the world? We ought to be 1st in line to help, if even by simply resolving the debts we collect from indigent nations.
Sorry, let me know what you all think.

06-27-2005, 01:24 PM	#1 (permalink)
Dbass Crazy	Will Massive Concerts work to Sway the Pres? (poll) I was up until 5 last night watching a rerun of Meet the Press with Bono of U2 talking about the Live 8 cause and the upcoming G8 summit in Scotland. I was moved, but I wonder if me being moved is a result of my heavy liberal bias and idealism, or because it really is a worthy cause and we really can do something about it. For those of you who don't know, the G8 are the 8 most powerful men in the world. This year, the other 7 will begin to contribute .7 percent of their budget to aid for Africa to fight against AIDS and poverty (3000 people a day die from mosquito bites, that's 3 a second....we thought September 11 was a tragedy, 3000 once in the nations history!). The US contributes .17 percent, and at this rate will contribute only 1/4th the amount of the European nations. Regardless of how you feel our budget is being used, isn't that a little sad? We are, after all, the strongest nation in the world (literally!) and we will contribute only 1/8th of the total aid in the world? We ought to be 1st in line to help, if even by simply resolving the debts we collect from indigent nations. Sorry, let me know what you all think.