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Politics : Dutch Central Bank Sale Announcement Imminent? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ubetcha who wrote (16184)	11/5/2002 3:43:54 PM
From: sea_urchin	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82218

Terry, very good so far but perhaps you should also tell Gary why most charity is not spent "at home". Tell him that most foreign "aid" is given to "help" the elite and the wealthy of "developing" countries" at the expense of the poor of the "developed" countries. As a slightly different example, in a country with 40% of its workforce unemployed and 20% of its population infected with HIV/AIDS, that country can spend $100m US on a smart plane for its president and almost nothing on poverty relief or the treatment of HIV/AIDS. That country is, of course, South Africa the home of St Nelson Mandela and the Archbishop of the Anti-Apartheid Movement, Lord Thabo Mbeki. Terry, also tell Gary that the last thing those in power, anywhere, want is to "empower" those who could put them out of power. That is why education is fine so long as it is about bullsh1t like sending donkeys to Mars but, to educate the masses so that they can "improve" themselves, and maybe make a revolution, that is OUT. Also, tell Gary why there is almost nothing shown about education or information on popular TV and everything about "entertainment". In fact, if any information is shown at all it is about the lives of film "stars" or how certain movies were made. Oh, I nearly forgot, we are also shown ad nauseaum about dinosaurs, primates and why we shouldn't hunt sharks and other "endangered" species. Also tell Gary why over 50% of the news-services on any TV station, anywhere in the Western world, is taken by "experts", like dealers or traders, telling their viewers what happened to the indices on the NYSE that day and, of course, the "economic" reasons for those movements. Of course, anyone with any understanding of the stock market knows that those reasons don't have more than the slightest influence on the prices. So, maybe now, Gary will see why there is not even the tiniest chance that governments, anywhere, will stop spending on nonsense projects and will start spending where it really matters --- on their own people who need it and who could possibly benefit from it.