Just the results? I'd like to read the whole thesis someday!

@X3n0n

We've not taken out more than we've put in since the 70s. The UK is a huge net contributor, although a decent handful of nations pay more per capita.

"We could end poverty if we wanted to. We just don't want to."

"Throwing money at other rich people doesn't work. But direct cash transfers to poor people do work."

So we just open a few branches of the Bank of the United States of America for Africa and send off 1 billion debit cards? $5,000 each is $5 TRILLION DOLLARS. That's almost half the United States economy.

Dream those dreams...
Scheme those schemes...
Hit me with those laser beams.

What's your plan to keep these trillions of dollars from being stolen by the corrupt governments of African states, Thucydides? Or, just as bad, out of the hands of the sundry rebel groups almost every state has?

http://tinyurl.com/lfxu6p5

This whole thing has more to do with the incompetence of the Nigerian government, military and police than it does with any relative value of human life. They can't get their shit together and run their own country properly.

Thucy,

I don't altogether follow your post.

semck: It's Thucy, that should be normal.

@ Thucy: What ludicrous ignorance you display. Don't worry I forgive you for your disgusting and self-indulgent personal attacks and name calling against me.

Truth is, Africa has always been fucked up. The likes of Boko Haram has been happening for millenia. Of course it's only fucked up from a western point of view. Take away the west and the awful parts of asia/africa culture becomes normal, just as it was for thousands of years before the very recent rise of the west. But hey Thucy is going to 'fix it' all by patronizing a few people with his greasy coins.

You're american right Thucy? There's lots of people in USA that need help. I hear there's 100k+ lost souls living in New Yorks underground system for starters. Yet these people don't deserve your help, but the exotic Africans do? Seems like there is quite the patronizing colonial attitude going on here.

+1 Jeff Kuta. At least some people here understand how the world truly works - discipline and self-responsibility. Not whiny victim-hood and demands for hand-outs.
Maybe some people are too used to solving all their problems with Daddys platinum card.

Actually as I finish writing this I can't help laughing out loud at the idea that we gift Africa with 500B. Man that would be quite the bloodbath! Remember Live Aid? That was a nasty civil war. Your naivete is breath taking Thucy - how old are you again?

Thucy is indisposed at present. He's picking my oranges, I need my morning juice.

This whole thread is pathetic.

First of all any time "The West" decides it knows better and goes in to fix problems in other countries, they usually just fuck them up even further.

Second, what makes any of you retards think you are right to lay judgements outside of the political-cultural context that prevails in Nigeria?

Lastly, people have a responsibility to look after their own welfare - doing it for them degrades their ability to do it for themselves.

So tsk if you must, but STFU and refrain from talking as if you know anything.

@octavious I rechecked, you are right, since three years ago, Britain has indeed joined the ranks of (overall) net contributors and has been one for the last 8 years. Still not very impressed. France contributed more overall (per capita and year of membership) and during the last decade, my second home country paid, well, in an average year half of what Britain paid net in a decade (if one assumes the last decade as sole base) (even more adjusted per capita).

@fiedler please, don't be unjust. Things like Boko Haram happened everywhere in the world for millennia (eg. Catholics, Hussites, Savonarola, to name only Western movements). And more and more (I am too lazy to check the statistics thoroughly, so I won't say "most") African states have gotten their shit together.

fair enuff.

I picked 250 lbs grapefruit this morning but I digress

"The likes of Boko Haram has been happening for millenia."

This is racist and untrue.

I've had enough of your fucking bullshit fielder. People in the USA need
Help and people in Nigeria need even more. Stop using "tu quoque" as a tactic to write off your responsibility to your fellow man. All people matter, African, Asian, and European.

Why is the person in Africa more deserving of our funds then the people on our own streets. Don't you think we should take care of our own first.

If we actually started taking care of our own instead of completely ditching them and constructing spikes where they sleep, you might have a point. But we don't, so you don't.

GO BO!

""The likes of Boko Haram has been happening for millenia."

This is racist and untrue."

Bahaha, Thucy are you that naive? Warlords and bandits haven't slaughtered people by the thousands since the beginning of man? How is it racist to say that? It isn't racist, it just makes him more aware of history than you. But I have a hard time believing that you honestly don't know about the violence of history.

I love those anti-camping spikes - such an elegant solution to the homeless problem.

The hilarious thing here young Thucy, is you have completely misunderstood my argument from the get go. I don't advocate not caring, I was simply protestign against the feaux-caring of hippocrite liberals who post threads like this and then when asked what they are going to do about the problem, reveal they have no intention of doing anything whatsoever my making a sarcastic reply.

You, Thucydides, have made up all my crimes in your own head, seemingly so you can go on a holier-than-thou spiel... Not that I'm complaining because its been hilarious to see just how clueless and self-deceiving you are right now.

"I've had enough of your fucking bullshit fielder" - oh no!

@KingCyrus: Maybe it was not obvious, but fiedler's statement solely referred to Africa.

I agree with Thucy's remark, since I fail to imagine any non-racist base for this assessment of fiedler.

Hi Bo

" you might have a point"

I live in New Zealand, not USA. We have what we call a welfare state here. The very VERY few 'homeless' people we have here are crazy fucks who are offered shelter but CHOOSE to live on the street.

So fuck your assumptions, darling ;)

Sorry plong, I was taking quotes directly from Thucy, not going back all the way to fiedler.

@plong42

" Maybe it was not obvious, but fiedler's statement solely referred to Africa."

Yes because Africa is the subject at hand.... genius. Oh well never mind, I've been DECLARED racist by plong42, who obviously thinks by labelling me this way it settles all arguments. Great stuff!

Yes, and ssorenn lives in the USA. He lives a few short miles from me, actually. See, I addressed his post, so my point was directed at him. I'm glad that in New Zealand, the people who are homeless choose to be, and though I highly doubt that's entirely true, I'll let that go. In Chicago and in the United States, businesses are known to pay for the erection of what we call "homeless spikes." These are placed in spots where a homeless person or people are known to sleep at night. These employers think that it is a better use of their funds to put up spikes that could physically harm someone than to offer the homeless person or people there are couple of bucks to sleep somewhere else. That would be a win-win, but they go for spikes anyway.

This one's under a bridge in China. It's not just our problem.

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I might be studying in New Zealand during my junior year - feel free to invite me over if I'm anywhere close to you.

Bo, clearly that picture was a tribute to the ancient Egyptian culture.

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Bo is a moron from Indiana. They're inbred over there.