More Money Than They Will Ever Need.

[StorminNorman]

If you work out how much i earn in a year compared to the beckhams thats the equivelent of them giving £5.00.

As for how much i've given i dont know, i dont keep count but i'm not stingey.

As for my 'soap box' all i'm saying is there are people around the world dying of easily preventable diseases while george lucas releases coutless versions of the same film demands higher amounts to the rights of his creations (sideshow recentley pulled out and will no longer manufacture the lightsabre props after lucasfilm s demands for the licence went too hige, over double the original price, but i digress) Ok so he's earned it, but he could give more back.

Would it be so bad to bring in a tax 30p a week from each person in the world (or higher depending on your income and obviously excluding the 3rd world and the like) to make the third world a better place?

Though it should also be taken into consideratuion what a previous poster added that people in the third world seem to over populate themselves.

what did the people who would receive your money do to deserve the handouts of the wealthy?

 

[Figs]

what did the people who would receive your money do to deserve the handouts of the wealthy?

They sat there looking sad holding up signs or holding out their hands. t:

 

[The-Dark-Knight]

what did the people who would receive your money do to deserve the handouts of the wealthy?

You cant be serious?

Some people are dealt really ****ty cards, They need a helping hand.

 

[Mr. Credible]

You cant be serious?

Some people are dealt really ****ty cards, They need a helping hand.

more than half the homeless people you see on the streets asking for cash aren't homeless at all, and doing what they do, they make on average about $20 and hour.

if you feel compelled to help, donate to a shelter or a soup kitchen, not directly to some beggar.

 

[Gilpesh]

You cant be serious?

Some people are dealt really ****ty cards, They need a helping hand.

As my friend said, "rich people owe to the poor exactly what the poor owe to them, nothing."

 

[Figs]

more than half the homeless people you see on the streets asking for cash aren't homeless at all, and doing what they do, they make on average about $20 and hour.

Too true! Reminds me of this lady who is always out on the 'island divider' in front of the Safeway grocery store. She is out there literally all day with a sign and a sad looking face on.

I always wondered why, if you can stand out there for hours and hours can't you just get your lazy ass a job. Now I know, they probably make more being a bum and getting free money for just standing and looking sad.

 

[The-Dark-Knight]

more than half the homeless people you see on the streets asking for cash aren't homeless at all, and doing what they do, they make on average about $20 and hour.

if you feel compelled to help, donate to a shelter or a soup kitchen, not directly to some beggar.

Yeah i do, they have big tin things in my town centre attached to awall, padlocked saying 'dong give to the begger it'll go on drugs give to us, we'll buy them food'

Over here in the uk the homeless sell a magazine called 'big issue' (i dont think they do it in the US but buying it i cant help think they'll just use there profits again for drink and drugs.

 

[The-Dark-Knight]

Too true! Reminds me of this lady who is always out on the 'island divider' in front of the Safeway grocery store. She is out there literally all day with a sign and a sad looking face on.

I always wondered why, if you can stand out there for hours and hours can't you just get your lazy ass a job. Now I know, they probably make more being a bum and getting free money for just standing and looking sad.

I was in london a few years back, and outside Harrods there was a similar woman who looked romanian shaking her hand while the other clutched ababy. as she shook some spare chane muttering what sounded like 'penny for my teeth'

to this day i have no idea what she was saying?

 

[Matt]

The first part i never knew, as to your question if i was making as much as say lucas, hilton or gates i'd be fine with it, i'd do it volunterily. As human beings we should give something back, and if i was as rich as these guys i'd give something back.

You didn't know companies pump money into the economy and employ people? And they DO do it voluntarily! That seems to be a very crucial fact you are ignoring in your little soap box rant.

Each month i give to charity, i just wish i could give more, do more to make the world a better place, be in a position to make it a better place. so many people in the world have that chance (i'm talking politicians) yet seem more happy to line there own pockets. i just wish we lived in a better place.

But they do!

 

[CieloAzul]

Yeah people give millions to charities, but there are millions of people that need a helping hand. There aren't enough billionaires. How about going to the governments instead. People are dieing and sick in third world countries because their governments fudged the developement process. We can't help everyone, and we sure as heck can't help ourselves.

 

[SuBe]

TDK, your plan is one step away from Communism. Just so you know.

 

[SuBe]

Yeah people give millions to charities, but there are millions of people that need a helping hand. There aren't enough billionaires. How about going to the governments instead. People are dieing and sick in third world countries because their governments fudged the developement process. We can't help everyone, and we sure as heck can't help ourselves.

How about changing who is in power in those countries, so instead of 100 million Dollar Palaces to themselves, the money goes back to the People?

 

[The-Dark-Knight]

TDK, your plan is one step away from Communism. Just so you know.

that cant be good.

 

[The-Dark-Knight]

That seems to be a very crucial fact you are ignoring in your little soap box rant

Not a soap box rant, it's just my thoughts, i expect people to disagree with me, it's called freedom of speech.

 

[Silicon Surfer]

The last time I was tempted to give money to anyone it was to a really pitiful looking guy in a supermarket parking lot. I didn't have any cash on me at the time though. I drove back that way a short time later at twilight to see the guy getting into a brand new BMW that didn't even have the license plates yet. That destroyed my charitable impulses.

If the world's poor were fed and given the medicines that we have available it would only create a population explosion. That would tax the world's resources even more and create the same problem all over again only worse.

 

[CieloAzul]

How about changing who is in power in those countries, so instead of 100 million Dollar Palaces to themselves, the money goes back to the People?

Uh well I'm consulting with those who operated "Operation Iraqi Freedom" I'll let you know what they think about that idea.



During the Revolutionary war, who came in and overthrew the king and liberated the "Americans"? Yeah sure they had some help but the French didn't roll in and say," why do you guys give in to that guy, eh?"

I get told this all the time: "God doesn't help those who don't help themselves." Not trying to bring religion into this AT ALL because that would make absoluitely no sense with this topic. But the premise is that an entire country can't just ***** and moan about their problems. I know their sick, starvin, and dieing, but someone over there needs to wake someone up and kick someone out. It's not up to us to fix the world and you can't force people to fix it either.

 

[SuBe]

The last time I was tempted to give money to anyone it was to a really pitiful looking guy in a supermarket parking lot. I didn't have any cash on me at the time though. I drove back that way a short time later at twilight to see the guy getting into a brand new BMW that didn't even have the license plates yet. That destroyed my charitable impulses.

If the world's poor were fed and given the medicines that we have available it would only create a population explosion. That would tax the world's resources even more and create the same problem all over again only worse.

Not only that, but if you give someone something, they don't appreciate it as much as if they earn it.

 

[Figs]

Not only that, but if you give someone something, they don't appreciate it as much as if they earn it.

That, as well as it makes them lazier and doesn't help to encourage them to move up in life like the rest of us.

 

[The-Dark-Knight]

Not only that, but if you give someone something, they don't appreciate it as much as if they earn it.

When i was about 10 i gave a homeless man a chocolate Milkshake, he seemed pretty happy.

 

[The-Dark-Knight]

That, as well as it makes them lazier and doesn't help to encourage them to move up in life like the rest of us.

It's tricky for a genuinely homeless person to 'move up' they cant get benefits to get them started unless they have a home or constant address, they cant get a home unless they have a income.

 

[CieloAzul]

No turkey dinner?

 

[The-Dark-Knight]

No turkey dinner?

He got a milkshake, he friggin loved it.

 

[SuBe]

He got a milkshake, he friggin loved it.

What did he do for you?

 

[StorminNorman]

You cant be serious?

Some people are dealt really ****ty cards, They need a helping hand.

Others have been dealt really ****ty card and crawled out of it to become successful.

Charities are there to help the needy. But as soon as charity is not optional - it no longer becomes charity.

 

[The-Dark-Knight]

What did he do for you?

he had a sad face, thats all i can think off. Maybe i should have expected more in return.