Make Poverty History

[Droo]

http://www.one.org/

I'm not going to patronise you guys with a lecture about this, it's simply a great cause in favour of cancelling world debt and providing greater aid to those who need it. Please visit the site and sign the online petition, it only takes a minute to do and is for a good cause.

Thanks. :)

[Khendon Sevon]

Viscera asked me to post this:


I disagree with this campaign. The campaign asks for the United States to give 1 percent. "ONE percent of the U.S. budget is $25 billion" it says. As it turns out, the United States is already giving $54 billion in aid to foreign countries, and so bringing our aid levels down to $25 billion would mean an aid reduction of 54%, which is something that probably would be unwise in light of famines and food shortages, and get the whole international community angry with us and ruin our reputation. Also I accidently cut off Italy. Also Norway and Luxembourg and Denmark and Sweden and the Netherlands and Portugal give more aid than the U.S., but they don't count because I can't understand what the hell they're saying anyways and they're crazy for some reason or another. Just ask Yog, he's nuts!

I made graphs!

http://img205.echo.cx/img205/8826/usaid11cf.th.gif (http://img205.echo.cx/my.php?image=usaid11cf.gif)
http://img205.echo.cx/img205/4359/usaid20ji.th.gif (http://img205.echo.cx/my.php?image=usaid20ji.gif)
http://img205.echo.cx/img205/9164/usaid39ex.th.gif (http://img205.echo.cx/my.php?image=usaid39ex.gif)
http://img205.echo.cx/img205/7774/usaid43hn.th.gif (http://img205.echo.cx/my.php?image=usaid43hn.gif)

Sources:
http://www.globalissues.org/TradeRelated/Debt/USAid.asp?so=p2004#oda
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/xx.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Income
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Income

[Droo]

My apologies, it's not simply the One campaign this is about, but the whole Make Poverty History campaign. It's a global effort, not merely a US one, but since the majority of you guys are from the US and Canada, I thought I'd give you the link to your own branch of Make Poverty History.

For those in the UK: www.makepovertyhistory.org

[Jedieb]

I'd like the world to end my poverty. Everyone please send me $5. Honest, I promise to do some good with the money. There's a vlix out there that deserves a good home and I'm ready to provide it.