Well-spent aid money is saving lives for a few thousand dollars per life saved.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A lot of money is spent trying to keep people alive who don't necessarily want to be alive.
The next time someone tells you we can trim the budget by cutting aid, I hope you will ask whether it will come at the cost of more people dying.
Don't matter how much money you got, there's only two kinds of people: there's saved people and there's lost people.
Governments of rich countries spend some $6bn of tax money a year on disaster relief and development aid overseas, while each new earthquake, famine or tidal wave can attract 1,000 aid organisations, from the United Nations Children's Fund and Oxfam to the 'Jesus Brigades' of the American south and other charitable adventurers.
If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.
This economy is on life support.
Trillions of dollars are being spent in the name of 'saving' the economy: bailouts, 'stimulus,' omnibus spending bills, budgets, government takeovers of the auto, health care and energy industries, all of which require ever more spending.
What we pay for with our lives never costs too much.
I see this as my humanitarian legacy. We're prepared to pay billions.
If the money we donate helps one child or can ease the pain of one parent, those funds are well spent.