posted 31 July 2004 03:08 PM
What if Canada started directing its foreign aide towards the inner cities of the United States...
What we set up programs to sponsor children...rebuild their communities, and give them a chance...what if we said third world living conditions are unexceptable everywhere...especially in our own and our neighbours back yards...
posted 31 July 2004 03:21 PM
The reaction would be nothing. Why because the states could give a rats ass about the inner cities. The rest of the world might be in a little awe of the whole thing. But it is the states and Bush would say it is not as bad as we are making it out to be. The States would say give the foreign aid to somewhere like Africa and then Canada would be made to look like the bad guys.
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posted 31 July 2004 03:43 PM
What if we directed them towards the poor in our own inner cities? And rural areas. And everywhere there is poverty in Canada.
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posted 31 July 2004 03:46 PM
We'd better be careful before we start pointing fingers. There are pockets of poverty in Canada - whether in the reserves, rural Atlantic Canada, or the streets of Toronto - that we should address first.
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posted 31 July 2004 03:48 PM
quote:Originally posted by Privateer: We'd better be careful before we start pointing fingers. There are pockets of poverty in Canada - whether in the reserves, rural Atlantic Canada, or the streets of Toronto - that we should address first.
Agreed.
It's just a thought, to see if it would help make poverty a priority.
posted 31 July 2004 07:17 PM
No, it wouldn't. If we wanted less poverty, we wouldn't be chopping down social services, closing schools and hospitals, lowering wages and benefits, refusing uneployment and welfare to people who need them, or throwing the metally ill out on the street. We wouldn't be down-loading government responsibility for our most defenceless people onto churches and charities. We wouldn't be pulling police-power out of dangerous neighbourhoods and putting them in crowd-control.
Increasing poverty is the priority here, as in the US. Because, how else are the rich going to get richer?
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