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Originally Posted by Taxi
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the recent bailouts. Oxfam recently said that the money used to bail out banks could have eradicated extreme poverty off the face of the earth for 50 years. So although i dont think breaking windows is ever a good idea for a tactic or to make your point, i can understand where some of the anger might come from.
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http://www.un.org/rights/poverty/poverty1.htm
(From a 1997 UN report on this issue)
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The additional costs of providing basic social services for all indeveloping countries is estimated at about US $40 billion a year over the next 10 years. This amount is less than 0.2 per cent of the world income of US$ 25 trillion. The sum needed to close the gap between the annual income of poor people and the minimum income at which they would no longer be poor is estimated at another US$ 40 billion a year. Thus, to provide universal access to basic social services and transfers to alleviate income poverty would cost roughly US$ 80 billion, or less than the combined net worth of the seven richest people in the world.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Militar..._United_States
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For the 2010 fiscal year, the president's base budget of the Department of Defense rose to $533.8 billion. Adding spending on "overseas contingency operations" brings the sum to $663.8 billion.[1][2]
When the budget was signed into law on October 28, 2009, the final size of the Department of Defense's budget was $680 billion, $16 billion more than President Obama had requested.[3][4] An additional $33 billion supplemental bill to support the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan was expected to pass in the spring of 2010, but has been delayed by the House of Representatives after passing the Senate.[5][6] Defense-related expenditures outside of the Department of Defense constitute between $216 billion and $361 billion in additional spending, bringing the total for defense spending to between $880 billion and $1.03 trillion in fiscal year 2010.
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And ill say it again, fuck you America.
But oh no we cant help, because that might be Sooooociaaaaaalismmmmmmm ohhh boogey man coming to get ya!
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Unfortunately ideas are so ingrained into the American psyche that only something totally spectacular, overwhelming and attention getting has any chance of being even moderately noticed. Hence the riots. The same applies to most of the western world with a few exceptions.
I will not condemn them for at least TRYING where most do nothing, their methods could definitely use some work however.