Permanently Bewildered and Racists11 Apr 2008 04:31 pm
By Montgomery
“Millions are families are hit by higher taxes from a wasteful Labour government and now we have Brown pledging to spend a further 200 million pound on Africa. WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO PUTTING UK first?”
Steve Tea – Cheshire
It was actually £100 million, but you’re right Steve, trying to save the lives of brown people you’ve never even met, who live in far away Bongo Bongo land is a shit idea. My weekend’s fucked without the £1.60 this reckless government initiative has personally cost me. I was hoping to have a posh wank tonight, but now it’ll have to be a straight up and downer.
41 Responses to “Economist Steve”
I was going to buy a can of Dr Pepper, a paper and choccie bar with that £1.60.
Those bastard darkies are stealing them from me.
On the plus side, I live in deepest, whitest Africa and I’m having a fucking great time with your cash.
Cheers fuckwits!
I’m sure that 0.019% of 2009/9 Government expenditure will be sorely missed.
you’re wrongfully assuming that you’re helping people in the long run. A lot of that money goes to dictators, or the corrupt governments. These people buy weapons, etc., and do not have much interest in those brown people you claim this money helps, for as long as Europeans who need to send money to other poor countries to give them a fuzzy feeling of thinking of doing something right so they can be ignorant the rest of the day, as long as people keep importing the only thing Africa exports, good consciousness , as long as that continues, corrupt Africa will continue, and the ‘brown people’ will suffer. But, hey, at least you feel good about yourself when you go to bed. I mean, who cares about the brown people anyway? No, not me. I care about that smug-feeling though.
Is the cunt-filter broken or something?
Tell you what, this Boreras chap has the right idea. Better to do nothing than something. But better than that is making pseudointellectual, smug posts about it.
Touché Moinseur Boreras, touché.
“A lot of that money goes to dictators, or the corrupt governments.”
That’s true. So if we assume the local governments skim off about £1 of the £1.60, then Gordon BLIAR has WASTED one can of Irn-Bru’s worth of MY money on darkies. However, the chief gollywog will probably invest the other £1 in British-made weapons and luxury goods. So we get the money back anyway!
You pay a whole quid for a can of Irn Bru?
Fucking hell, those bloody darkies are depriving me of THREE.
6000 – The downside you have to live with is that you’re a cretinous twatsack.
Boreras – Right now driving up the M1 is fucking big lorry. On the back of that lorry is a fucking big microscope. I need that microscope to see the tiny shred of a fuck that anyone gives about anything you’ve got to say, ever. Fuck off you tedious bellend.
Alex – Shit and not funny. Go away.
Angry Monty
I think 6000 and Alex were both being sarcastic. I reckon Alex was even making a point about how Africa’s corruption is pretty much OUR corruption. This is the real point missed by sanctimonious shitflecks like borearse and the smug Geldof/Bono cunts he purports to be annoyed about.
Reminds me of a nice analogy I once heard (on Medialens I think) about how Africa is lying in the mud and Europe is standing with its boot on her neck, holding her down, choking her, whilst wringing its hands and fretting about what on earth it can do to “help”. Give her a pillow? Offer her a drink? Let her listen to your U2 branded iPod?
Monty – “Right now driving up the M1 is fucking big lorry”?
Well go lie in front of it then, please.
Nelson – So glad you spotted the irony in my post and the irny in Alex’s.
(Crap, I can’t believe I just wrote that…)
Sarcastic? Bollocks! I’m still down one can of bloody Irn-Bru!
as long as Europeans who need to send money to other poor countries to give them a fuzzy feeling of thinking of doing something right so they can be ignorant the rest of the day, as long as people keep importing the only thing Africa exports, good consciousness , as long as that continues, corrupt Africa will continue, and the ‘brown people’ will suffer.
Boreras on 11 Apr 2008 at 11:45 pm
I think its mainly going to be spent on mosquito nets…. African dictators all through the continent will yell “Quick, lets trap our people under these mozzie nets, haha, the fuckers can’t move! I’m off to eat their food! Silly bints!”
I’ll admit that I’ve written it as being very much in your face. And I’ve come across as hostile. I’m sorry.
@Montgomery
harhar. You’ve gone through a lot of trouble to show nobody cares about what I say. Spot the contradiction!
Anyway, allow me to share:
“Being dependent on foreign aid seems to result in worsening democratic
institutions.” conclusion Simeon Djankov, The World Bank ( http://www.econ.upf.edu/docs/papers/downloads/870.pdf very interesting read)
from the same paper:
“The comparison is instructive as it highlights how little is known about the delivery of foreign aid, despite an estimated $2.3 trillion spent on aid in the second half of the 20th century. The specific 17 mechanism why foreign aid has a negative effect on political institutions needs to be further
investigated.”
and another good read is http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518,363663,00.html (in English)
http://www.cato-unbound.org/2006/04/03/william-easterly/why-doesnt-aid-work/
quotes:
“The evidence is stark: $568bn spent on aid to Africa, and yet the typical African country no richer today than 40 years ago. Dozens of “structural adjustment” loans (aid loans conditional on policy reforms) made to Africa, the former Soviet Union, and Latin America, only to see the failure of both policy reform and economic growth. The evidence suggests that aid results in less democratic and honest government, not more.”
“Economic development happens, not through aid, but through the homegrown efforts of entrepreneurs and social and political reformers. While the West was agonizing over a few tens of billion dollars in aid, the citizens of India and China raised their own incomes by $715 billion by their own efforts in free markets. Once aid agencies realize that aid CANNOT achieve general economic and political development, they could start concentrating on fixing the system that fails to get 12-cent medicines to malaria victims.”
These sources contain, of course, not the ultimate truth. They, arguably, do have some authority: the gentleman interviewed by Speigel (Shiktawi) is an Kenyan Economist and director of Inter Region Economic Network (http://www.irenkenya.com/), a think tank that argues that free market will aid Africa; the latter (Easterly) is co-director New York University’s Development Research Institute.
My point is not that we should stop foreign aid. We need to change it’s identity. Based on my very limited resources (though the point is that the lot who pay for foreign aid will have to admit they decided on even more limited resources (as in reading critical papers, etc.)), I think we should thoroughly research what is beneficial for the people of Africa, rather than wasting all this money when it may be ill-advised.
Fuck my post btw, just read those links.
Hehehe.
Oh come on, who can be fagged reading links and, well, posts over 4 lines?
“My point is not that we should stop foreign aid. We need to change it’s identity.”
So what now? I still have to fork out £1.60 to help people I’ve never even met? No deal.
I actually agree 100% Boreras, aid generally doesn’t really help the people at all. But then I don’t really know what I can do to actually help them.
I would love to go and do something personally. I have a little boy of 3 tho, and selfish as it is, I would rather stay and be alive for him, than help them. That’s rubbish I know, but I still would.
Christ, and I thought I was Dull.
“Aid generally doesn’t really help the people at all. But then I don’t really know what I can do to actually help them. I would love to go and do something personally.”
This is like one of those Socratian logic puzzles. Does Becca know what works or not? My guess is she hasn’t got the faintest fucking idea, but thought she’d share it with us anyway.
COme build some houses in Cape Town.
It’s great fun and you get free Irn-Bru*.
* this is a lie
“My point is not that we should stop foreign aid. We need to change it’s identity.”
Could we channel aid via a game-show format in which competing third world nations performing increasingly bizarre tasks in order to win the money?
Or perhaps Gordon Brown could write scam emails to the leaders of African countries asking for the use of their bank accounts to disburse a huge sum that has come into his possession as a result of an implausible series of events?
@ Boreras – TL; DR
Here is a link to an elephant dancing to a racoon powered guitar
http://western.ncom.org/AnimatedClipArt/OmerDancingElephant.gif
enjoy
Who cares!
NEXT!
I’m enjoying this debate, if i had opinions i would wade in cackhandedly a la John.
My point is that when I gave tins of sweetcorn to the harvest festival at my school when I was a boy, where did it go?
I refuse to believe that any charitable institution would ship my sweetcorn to Africa. The browns don’t have tin openers and as a result would find my ‘gift’ frustrating and something of a ‘two fingers up’ at them.
No?
No.
I care so little about the arguement between posters on here, i am going to find a quiet corner of paddington station and see how long i can hang by the neck dead before someone bothers to notice.
Mark Speight R.I.P
Your programmes were inspirational and i now know how to make an elephant out of pipe cleaners and my father’s anal grit.
Thank You Sir
[quote] This is like one of those Socratian logic puzzles. Does Becca know what works or not? My guess is she hasn’t got the faintest fucking idea, but thought she’d share it with us anyway. [/quote]
Erm, yep, pretty much. Sorry bout that – Sunday night babble :/
I can’t even quote lol
yeah poor old spieghty, not seen anything as tragic since his girlfriend tried to see if Archimedes theory was dependant on the temperature of the bath water.
I can’t comment on this, as all angles seem to have been covered pretty well by all parties and what started off as a sideswipe at someone who’s a biruvaknob has turned into a big clever debate.
But what I want to know is when they’re going to build a big fucking prison in England to put all the hoodies in. People who are younger than me and hang around in groups of more than two should be sent there until they’re 21. Where’s my vote gone, Brown? LISTEN TO MY VOICE.
I just want to hear about the posh wank!
Good Point Lecs, I want to know what a posh wank is.
Down with semi-coherent debate.
Fully agreed!
(and that’s nothing to with the fact that I kinda look like a twat now, not at all, nope)
lay on your hand till its numb, then wank away with wild abandon, could pop on a marigold for that extra special feeling but thats optional.
anyway the idea is you can’t feel your hand so its like someone else is doing it for you, ergo a posh wank.
I hope that i’ve bought something informative to the board, and that you can all go away and learn from it.
not sure it applies to girls becca, but numb up your hand and give yourself a good fingering later and report back ok?
No, it’s not that, it’s have a hand shandy with a condom on, hence the reference to £1.60. See here:
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=posh+wank
err was someone giving away free irn bru?
Less morals, more humour.
fucko, i believe you are referring to the “stranger” technique, as practised by obsessive and remarkably patient masturbators
p.s. LEAVE MY SPEIGHTY OUT OF THIS
Both wrong.
Posh wank:
http://thinkexist.com/quotes/victoria_beckham/
Oh i don’t care, definitions smefinitions! all this talk of wanking makes me want to go knock one out, where is my rosemary west swimsuit calendar