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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: cosmicforce who wrote (5577)	2/13/2001 10:37:59 AM
From: thames_sider	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

I agree in principle... but governments are reluctant enough to fund the military - I really doubt they'd fund conservation/charitable/service work, certainly any more than they do now. [The UK has a fairly pitiable level of overseas aid relative to GDP... and I believe the US is even worse, unless you count arms shipments/subsidies as aid]. They see it as - at best, futile; else, interference in another country, or propping up another government which won't put its own house in order, or an ego trip/holiday for predominantly middle-class youth... One semantic point: government: doing things that as individuals we have the desire for, but an inability to do by the limits of our resources I rather desire a 10-year holiday in luxury with a charming but highly expensive girlfriend... I'll vote for any government guaranteeing me that <g> No, I know what you mean - the government, on behalf of the 'state' it leads, should have the self-interest to see that it, its citizens and its world standing would all gain from such a policy. <sigh>