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Getting out of hand?

No one seems to be caring over here anymore.. since the whole thing in Iraq...(for the rest of the poverty stricken world, like Isreal for eg..)

Just want your views and/or opinions on the matter...

hmmm, think it would be wiser for me not to comment on this one ...

is this gonna be one of those subjects no one replies on?

either:-
A) because they don't care

or

B) they know nothing about it?

israel???

yea, The US stopped giving them aid.. and 50% of the aid given from the US goes to Isreal, they can't survive without aid from the US...

this is a difficult topic i guess to get into. I think the poverty level in the african countries has gotten worse, not much can be done with existing corruption that exists in those countries as well. It is very sad :/

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yea...

It's a difficult subject.. but I had to think of something.. and this is more important than the trivial stuff being talked about atm..(on here)

The aid given by US was used to build weapons, if you gonna talk about poverty at least talk about countries that are really striken by it like some African ,Asian and South American countries

I brought up Isreal as an Example..

poor example then

The most RECENT example, ok?

still piss poor example

Talk about the subject at hand then, I'm sure it's more important than your telling me how shite my examples are?

What crawled up your arse and died?

your piss poor example did

Look, I start a Subject that is Serious, and you seem to feel the need to be a smart ass.. and f*** up the post with your lame ass 3 worded answers..

you repeated the same thing 3 times.. If you're not going to type something useful.. Go away.. ok?

Also, What does my using a supposed "piss poor example" have to do with World Poverty?

It's all right for you, I guess... you don't have to watch your family starve...

some people seem to care about poverty struck countries most people dont give a rat ass about it though.

Well I do..

otherwise, do you really think I would of made this thread?

this aint the place for political stuff so this thread wont last the night

I know..

There are some good films on the subject, though..

So, if you think about it.. it's a great subject to discuss.

what films would that be?

Can't think of any movies off the top of my head..

Though, I'm not the only person on here...

I know of some books..

'Nickel and Dimed'
about the crap pay and poverty in the US..

the reason why I said that Israel was apiss poor example is because
that Israel in itself is like waving a red cloth. The Israel/Palestinian problem would have been brought up and then the shit would really hit the fan.
So the reason for the agressive terms was to kill it off before any one went down that road and drifted into the Israeli/Plaestinian conflict..

On a more termological term Israel cant be consider to be even close to poverty

well, The reason I brought it up was because it was the first thing that popped into my mind.

anyhoo, you know of any good books/movies?

and that's why I didn't comment

well in the united states it more profitable to starve countries... ex. ethiopia... we send around 300 million dollars of aid to ethiopia. most of it is in the form grain. ethiopia had been in the worst drought in recorded history, so they were unable to farm... well to make a long story short, US farmers are banking on sending them grain... companies that actually ship the grain are paid by govt contracts. basically ethiopia can grow its own grain now, but the grain they get from the US is far cheaper, so noone wants to farm grain in ethiopia. there was an ethoipan farmer complaining that he a warehouse full of grain he couldn't sell. it will all just rot in the warehouse... meanwhile the US will not stop shipping the US grain that ethiopia does not need... because the shipping and agriculture lobby is very powerful and has the ear of congress. its more complicated that that but this is just a jist.

haha poverty haha

So what the heck did you open it in the OFF-TOPIC area for? Where no-one is under any obligation to disuss it seriously at all, and can in fact make anything of it they like? You have no right at all to ask him to type something useful- that is not how it works in this section.

IF you want to start a serious discussion, use the GDF. But such debates are VERY frowned upon around here as they inevitably turn into very acrimonious argument, as we can see starting already.

actually, this post was dying off anyway... you have started it off again..

suprisingly(not) into another argument, probably on purpose.

Thanks for your input

I think it needed to be clear. The OTF is not the place for serious subject matter!

It's an Off topic subject.. so I chose it?

who cares, obviously no one..

Starting trivial arguments on this thread just annoys me..

So what if I used Isreal as a s*** example, the amount of poverty is disgusting.. and people should accept it and do something about it.

My two cents..

I'm not answering this thread again.

There is no such thing as an 'off-topic' subject! The definition of off-topic is that there is NO subject! Again, if you want a subject, use the GDF.

Originally posted by CandyKoRn
yea, The US stopped giving them aid.. and 50% of the aid given from the US goes to Isreal, they can't survive without aid from the US... I like your avvie.