I agree with phinsup on that thought.

 

The reason that I don't get into things like this is because of my political beliefs. Our government is too big. It should not have the control that it does, nor should it be responsible for "helping" everyone else. If I want to send my money to africa or wherever the **** that should be MY choice. I'm sick of being forced into donating. If I want to be an *** and be greedy, I should have the choice to do so, my tax money should not be going to "aid" it should be going to keep up the operations of our country.



AND, if they do feel it necessary to "help" people, we have TONS that need help right here at home. I think if they are going to "help" people, we need to fix our own breaking down country before we spread our money elsewhere.



I put "help" and "aid" in quotation marks because I am only using them as terms. I don't think that these programs and organizations acctually do anything at all.

 

Well... to completely avoid the political discussion... the Live 8 concert was good... I saw it from Berlin. Anyone else catch it?

 

the stars should go there themselves and hand out birth control

 

yea, get Bono to cover your Boner

 

They arent asking for ******* donations, they are asking to relieve debt and offer foreign aid to 3rd world countries. I swear some of the people on this forum are the most anti-social sons of bitches in the world

 

1. I'm not an American so why should I get a say in what you pay your tax towards?

2. Like I said in the other thread, they don't say once what their plan is to do with the money.



I actually think Bono is ok - he's a little eccentric but he's done a lot even for a celebrity.



Mark

 

it doesn't matter what we donate to africa..



they could raise every cent of the money to forgive the debt BUT.. what they raise will get mismanaged, and they will stay in debt..



like to tsunami ****.. everyone is ******* greedy and keeps what we give.



i believe that most of the highest paid CEO's in the country work for charity organizations. i forget what the avg. salary was.. someone look it up.. it will sadly make you think twice about giving again.

 

We can't pay our own debts, we have the largest natnal debt in the history of this country, how is relieving foreign country's debt ie forgiving it going to help us pay our own debt? It won't it's only going to increase.



people in this country seem to be quick to forgive debt, pile on more debt to the current. Do you realize that this money has to come from somewhere? Something has to give, we are going bankrupt our dollar is becoming less and less valuable in respect to others.



All of this money has to be paid back, maybe all these famous rich ***** should use their powers of creative accounting and figure out where we are going to get the money to pay off our foreign debt. No wants to raise taxes, but everyone wants to SPEND SPEND SPEND. You can't fight wars abroad, give money to starving nations, forgive foreign debts, etc without eventually having to come up with the money to do so. Our current approach has been to increase our debt (borrow more money) anyone on this forum should be able to understand that this will not work. Let's say you have 5 credit cards and 3 of them have a balance, charging the other 2 to the max doesn't pay off the other 3.... it's pretty simple. At some point we are going to have to pay the debt.

 

Lets see... blow all our cash on a pointless war fighting, "Freedom Haters" or let debts go to small 3rd world countries with new leadership that are having to fight to bring the country they stand for out of poverty because the people who ran the country 30 years ago made bad decisions.





I know America is a far from perfect place to live in for alot of people right now, I happen to live in a city that took 2 hurricanes up the *** last year. I also know that I dont have to find a way to feed myself on a dollar a day. Everyone is entitled to an opinion and I respect all of yours I just hope you give me the same respect.