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@milkman of human kindness wrote:
like annette said because people have a diffrent opion to you gives you no right to slander them with strong words like bigot no right whatsover lets have it right please and less of slandering other chatters i dont throw hissy fits like you so im glad you dont like me
Expressing an opinion about someone isn’t slander. Oh, and if it’s written, it’s libel…not that it’s libel either…
As for the rest…how old are you? :roll:
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Mine are for private showings only, to a strictly limited audience…limited to my partner :wink:
oi! :evil:
@irish_lucy wrote:
yeah thats what i mean, since were the ones paying to keep the foreign Governments in riches, if we stopped giving them money would it make them fix their Country and therefore stop people from fleeing.
Its the West that supplies money and guns so if we stopped, would it help??
30 years ago was Live Aid, and over 30 million was raised back then, more than enough to feed them all but were did it go?
There is more poverty now, more refugees and no sign of a solution.
Governments are getting richer and the people are getting poorer, something has to give.Many refugees are not fleeing from poverty; they are fleeing from persecution (racial, religious, homophobic etc.), war, tribal warfare, attacks from their own governments and so on. As much as we may not like the way some countries are run, dictatorships, tribal lines and so on, we have contributed to the upheaval in several countries by trying to impose a western democracy on countries that either don’t want or are not ready for it. That’s a very simplistic way of putting it of course, it’s far more complex than that.
The fact is that there have always been refugees for one reason or another and there probably always will. As soon as you address a problem in one area another one will appear in another area. You can’t blame people for wanting a better life than the one they have whatever the cause. In my view, trying to stop refugees is like King Canute trying to stop the tide. It makes far more sense to me for the countries that the refugees want to go to, usually Europe or the US, to agree an approach to supporting these people in a way that no one has to take more refugees than their country can cope with and that every country makes a contribution to funding the support that they need. Maybe rethinking our approach to foreign aid is the answer, with some going to the countries to help those that want to stay there and some going to supporting those that want to leave.
That’s just off the top of my head, I’ve not really thought it through so I’ll wait for holes to be picked in it :lol:
@irish_lucy wrote:
Would it help if all foreign aid was stopped??, would the Governments of those Countries be forced to fix the problem.
No foreign aid, no income for the rich or for more weapons, then maybe they will look after their own instead of making them flee to others countries.
is this even possible??
In many of the countries that people are fleeing from, the Governments ARE the problem.
It wasn’t my intent to play devil’s advocate btw, I just wondered if you would do what you think others should do.
Personally I would not take strangers into my home, regardless of who they were or where they came from. If I was prepared to do that I would have already taken in some of the homeless in my area. That does not mean that I would only offer kind words though; there are other ways of supporting those in need.
And if more come? Or if they are moved from another town, another part of the country?
How many will you take in?So how many refugees are you going to put then Blossom?
okaaaaaaaaaaaay :?
@Mr Harp wrote:
@kent f OBE wrote:
@jen_jen wrote:
I’m glad to say that I haven’t a photo of him in his bra, was it red or orange?
Cant remember now I think it was red……wonder if he went to Marks and Sparks to get measured :lol:
You have to ask yourself what kind of a man wears a red bra. A real man wears a basque and suspenders!
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OMG I’m a real man :shock: