[shubi]

1 dollard donations by 440 billion people, for 8 years we will collect roughfly 4 trilions, i know world has approximately 6.5 billions people. 7 billions x 12 x 8 will give us the money we need for all our cause. We can eleminate proverty and hunger in world which costs 1.4 trilions dollars, remaining we can invest in our senior citizens comfort. simple and easy, but there will be many obsticals, friends many conntry will work against due to their political belife, many special interest group will fight dont know myself why? and some people will object because they dont want us to have a level playing filed.
now democracy is defeined as For the people, By the people and Of the people, we all have to work hard together no easy road to kitchen.
thanks to the poster who pointed out trilions miracle in my part, see you
sorry all last time when i recevied post about 42.2 trilions lost my mind and changed my figured instead of explaining it. sorry again.

[TimG]

Where are you going to find 440 billion people?

[jdonn]

TimG, on Sep 22 2007, 09:36 AM, said:

Where are you going to find 440 billion people?

On the 215 on my way to work every day

The question is, are they all willing to spare a dollard?

Also we have to figure out how to spend 50% of 4 trillion and still have 4 trillion remaining.

[cherdano]

TimG, on Sep 22 2007, 08:36 AM, said:

Where are you going to find 440 billion people?

Good question, but if you never try, you will never find out.
Come one, lets try, ONE!

[Al_U_Card]

But think of all the masterpoints he gave away to those hungry for them....

[ralph23]

Jlall, on Sep 22 2007, 12:25 PM, said:

shubi how many ACBL tournaments have you played on BBO? Like over a thousand? Those all cost 1 dollar. If you had given those 1 dollars to THE CAUSE then you could have helped eliminate world hunger!!!!!!!!

And what if the other 439,999,999,999 BBO'ers had done the same!!

[han]

TWO

[kenrexford]

This sounds like the best idea Congress has had yet to balance the budget.

[Fluffy]

why 1 dollar, why can't you donate 1€?

[shubi]

hi hi if you read my first post you will see i told please donate in the currency of your country. thx. dollar was mentioned to make it easy to communicate. thank you

[goodwintr]

THREE

[sceptic]

I am of the opinion that if you live some where that is not capable of supporting its population, taking food to them is not the answer, they then become dependant on handouts and they then will never learn to solve thier own problems

[kenrexford]

FISH

[jmc]

Their are so many misconceptions behind this problem that I won't even begin to address them. I can't believe how many people believe throwing money at problems will solve them.

Where are the Ayn Rand fanatics? Objectivists needed before this becomes a global tax.

jmc

[Echognome]

shubi, on Sep 22 2007, 06:28 AM, said:

1 dollard donations by 440 billion people gives us 440 billions dollar per month, makes about 4 trilions in 8 years. we give 50 percent to education fund remains 4 trilions. we can eleminate proverty and hunger in world which costs 1.4 trilions dollars. remaining we can invest in our senior citizens comfort.

So we're getting 440 billion dollards a month.

12 months a year, means we'll have 5.28 trillion dollards in a year.

You play to run this donation scheme for 8 years, yielding 42.24 trillion dollards!

Yet you tell your constituents you will only make 8 trillion dollards, putting 4 trillion dollards in education and another 4 trillion to poverty, hunger, and in our senior citizens. So you are only skimming 34.24 trillion dollards off the top!

Maybe you can invest them into BBO$? I heard the current exchange rate is 17.12 trillion dollards per BBO$.

[helene_t]

Yes, the latest conspiracy theory is that G.W. and Osama both are converting their U.S. assets to BBO assets in fear of a collapse of the U.S. economy. We can expect a major inflation pressure on BBO. In due course, GIBs will be a trillion $ a week.

[Blofeld]

sceptic, on Sep 22 2007, 09:04 PM, said:

I am of the opinion that if you live some where that is not capable of supporting its population, taking food to them is not the answer, they then become dependant on handouts and they then will never learn to solve thier own problems

I think lots of people who would ask you to donate would agree with this - they'd just say that this isn't the sort of thing you should be donating towards. Instead, perhaps, cheap operations to cure blindness and give people their life back. It's very hard to argue that they become dependent on blindness operations and never learn to solve their own problems!

[FOUR, while I'm at it]

[EricK]

sceptic, on Sep 23 2007, 02:04 AM, said:

I am of the opinion that if you live some where that is not capable of supporting its population, taking food to them is not the answer, they then become dependant on handouts and they then will never learn to solve thier own problems

This is a rather simplistic viewpoint.

"Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day, teach a man to fish and he'll eat for a lifetime" is true enough. But you might still need to give him some fish while he is still learning lest he starve to death on the riverbank.

[barmar]

EricK, on Sep 23 2007, 10:08 AM, said:

sceptic, on Sep 23 2007, 02:04 AM, said:

I am of the opinion that if you live some where that is not capable of supporting its population, taking food to them is not the answer, they then become dependant on handouts and they then will never learn to solve thier own problems

This is a rather simplistic viewpoint.

"Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day, teach a man to fish and he'll eat for a lifetime" is true enough. But you might still need to give him some fish while he is still learning lest he starve to death on the riverbank.

And you also have to buy him the fishing gear.

But I think what sceptic is worried about is that if you're feeding him while you're teaching him, he might not pay attention to the lesson -- he's already learned that the easy way to make money is simply by being poor and taking handouts.

We like to think that few people will be satisfied taking charity forever, that they'd be embarassed to stay on the dole. But if it's too much work to get back to self-sufficiency, lots of people (or countries) will put aside their self-esteem and take whatever they can get for as long as they can.