popeye1250
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ORIGINAL: heartcream Reading this thread is a tad strange. We live in a world where (for one example of the way too many insane things going on on this pretty planet) women in the Congo get their clits cut off and sometimes eaten. Yet it pisses people off more than anything, more than anything, mind you, MORE than anything things like dumb cell phone use. It really messes me with me what (often males) humans do to each other out of fear and feelings of deep seated inadequacy. I reserve "pissed off" for minor annoyances. I am sadly grieved that 1 in 6 people do not have access to clean, safe water, about lack of human rights, women's rights, the rape and pillage of the planet, etc. but none of these things are appropriate to this thread. kalikshama, we're not responsable for how people in foreign countries do things. The Taxpayers don't exist to be "giving" them things. Look at Haiti and other countries, as long as our govt keeps "giving" them things they'll never stand up on their own two feet. A hundred years from now nothing will change if we keep "giving" them things. It's like welfare only on an international scale. How many people ever get off welfare? That's one of the things that pisses me off, people who "care" about people in foreign countries while we have people living under bridges here. I call it; "The Great White Bwana Syndrome." I give to three shelters that are "at capacity" now. That $49 B that we're giving out in "foreign aid" would do a lot of good here helping homeless families who we *are* responsable for! Hillary Clinton would go out of her way to get "foreign aid" for people in foreign countries while a homeless person here was crushed under the wheels of her armored limo. She probably doesn't "see" homeless people.
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