Originally Posted by
Brian ST24
Agree on one side, if Uk is so 'poor' why are we to be seen to be giving money away.? But are we really 'poor' those poor fuckers over there are, and have to live it day in day out. The aid is to prevent people dying by giving medicine food and shelter, that's the very nature of the human race, and we as a 1st world country have to be seen to be doing our bit.
Course we aren't poor. We have council housing, sheltered accomodation, dole money, the NHS, state benefits, incapacity benefit, income support, child benefits, disability benefits. We have law, we have a democracy (ish), we have police and a court system, etc etc...
Even the poorest in this country are positively well off in comparison to the survivors in Haiti.