So, you pay $10 shipping cost for a brick that the staff will have the Congressional janitors cart away. I bet the form letter response will make you feel good though.
Bricks are superior to children. They don't have to eat, and they don't require an education. If we want to be effective citizens in making the world a better place, the brick is obviously the best option. We can spend money buying food for kids, or setting up funds so the smart ones can go to college, but they'll always get hungry again and they'll always need tuition for the second semester. Bricks, you only have to pay for once, and they don't require more. Why do you hate bricks? Bricks are the foundation of our country - do you hate our country?
You have a point there. Building a wall out of dead-starved children is probably more effective than using bricks. They are larger, there are more of them, they are cheaper to get and when they decompose they stick to each other naturally. Plus the smell will be enough to make people turn away. The only catch is that its expensive to send a hungry child to congress, and who knows, some of them might keep the child for personal use instead of using it to build the wall.
I'd go for it...if they promised to send a brick through a window of the White House, the Senate or Congress. Perhaps it would hit the President, a Senator, or a Congressman in the head and knock some sense into them. Otherwise, it's a complete waste of time and money.
ill bet you can feed a country like sudan for atleast a month with the amount of money that is being wasted on SENDING BRICKS. WTF IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE. THOSE BRICKS ARE GOING TO BE THROWN AWAY. YOU ARE THROWING AWAY YOUR DAMN MONEY.
I understand this. I'm not sending a brick. I just find the constant "if we gave that money to starving people in ______" argument to be absurd. Even if I accept your feed them for a month argument, what do we do after that? Send another 10 dollars? What about hungry people in places besides Sudan? How do we determine who gets it? The situtation will never get solved by simply throwing money at the problem. Plus, this wouldn't be the biggest waste of 10 dollars possible. One could have purchased Rockets tickets for this last year instead.
im sure if we spent 2 trillion on africa instead of on iraq we could fix africa for more than a month.
and im sure that 2 trillion would go to the warlords and dictators as has most of the money and food that the UN has supplied over the years.
...but not forever which is the problem. I'm all for helping out those countries that need it. But throwing money at a poor country/region is a horrible way to solve the problems of the area. And the argument of "the money spent on the war would help Africa for a year" doesn't fly either because do you really think the money would go there if it wasn't going towards the war?
halfbreed your comment about spending 10 dollars on a rockets game other than to the poor, it speaks miles about your character no matter how "jokingly" a sense you may used it in I found you to be very cold-hearted from your previous two posts Shame on you.
Would you personally let a person starve to death today because feeding him for only a month is futile?
...uhh the comment was referring to sending a brick to Congress and not about feeding the poor. Maybe if you followed the thread you'd know that. You know nothing of my character and apparently nothing of reading. Tough question only because what would you do after that? Wouldn't you pose the same question? How do we determine who gets the food and who doesn't? It might seem cold hearted to some of us but what about to the people over there who aren't chosen to benefit from such things? Wouldn't the best thing be to try and find ways to change the system so EVERYONE over there benefits instead of throwing money to them that 99% of them won't ever see and the ones that do will only be helped for maybe a week or two? I just don't see how the "give them some money to eat" thing can be practiced in reality without becoming an infinite cycle of not fixing the real problems.
