http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-11318342

- This article has enough food-for-thought for a good topic.
Should we send aid to a country whose economy is growing 10 times faster than our own, even though it has some of the poorest people in the world? Are we just propping up domestically-neglectful regimes? Or are we being bastards by cutting the aid?

Interesting one.

Lets be bastards.

We support them by buying their exports. That is plenty IMHO. If nations like India and China want to neglect their billions of people while sitting on enormous cash reserves, well that is their problem. Maybe their government can start by buying some condoms. No country needs 2 Billion people.

Yep, I say screw'em as well. what exactly do you get for money? improved infrastructure, clean water programs? a government led micro-finance program to alleviate poverty? or just more M-peening to piss of the paki's? whilst many needfull programs and ideas in yourown nation go un and underfunded.

Well, it would certainly be difficult to justify the money at the rate of India's military growth, and especially politically as Kashmir is as sore a topic here as Palestine. I don't know if a 'fuck 'em all' approach is needed, but without positive evidence of that aid is indeed going to alleviate the poor, I certainly don't know if this is the course we should continue on.