by Ziad » 29 Oct 2018, 11:14 am
Hmm, I have had this conversation before. I love how auntie Pauline makes it so simple. Not that I am an expert. But let's explain.
Thre are two issues here, australia giving foreign aid, and lack of spending on local issues or poor ppl.
Well I can't answer the local issues, I would say the media and the population is more worried about how big Kardashian bum is or at worst how they waste money on paying drivers to ferry their puppies from their city homes to their country houses. Plus I suppose most of the voting ppl are in the cities and they don't understand the issues experienced by country folk.... like the recent thought bubble whe vicroads were thinking of reducing spend on country roads from 100kph to 80kph cuz they didn't have decent shoulders.
Foreign aid, imho is good, actually we don't do enough. Think about it, in australia we expect the high income earners to pay taxes and part of their taxes is used by the state on looking after the poor and needy. Imagine the world is a country where there are rich countries and poor countries. Similarly there is an argument that the richer countries have a moral obligation to help the needy.
The second part of the aid is basically bribery, yes australia as a country spends money to bribe rulers of other countries. Wait now please don't get on your high horse and say how dare we do that. But reality is, pol are corrupt and if you close your eyes doesn't make em honest.
Why do we need to bribe them, we'll 5minutes like putting a detention center to house boat ppl on naru. Well you don't want ppl in your backyard why would ppl of naru wan't a detention centre. Or getting countries like Indonesia to stop the boat smugglers. Hey if I was Indonesia I would go let's keep our eyes shut this ppl smugglers give our ppl employment ants the asylum seekers bring money into our economy. So we bribe Indonesia and other countries to do our work. Other times we might have a strategic or military need of a country and we bribe them. Then maybe we want extra votes in the UN assembly. And many more reasons.
Recently someone said the ahole country XYZ letting china build a sea port on their island within striking distance of australia. Rest assured if australia doesn't bribe them other countries like china will.
So yes love it or hate it, it's an arms race. And call it bribe or foreign aid its is needed.
Blame it on the phone auto correct