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Just saw this in a status on Facebook.

Quote:

Shame on you ENGLAND !!!!!! the only country where we have homeless without shelter, children going to bed without eating, elderly going without needed meds, mentally ill without treatment and british servicemen and women fighting without the best kit - yet we donate £50 million to the people of Haiti ... 99% of people won't have the guts to copy and repost this

1)The only country?
2)WHAT
3)I could be whining about MPs using tax money to buy curtains, but I'd rather complain about much needed aid being given


So... stupid Facebook statuses/ stupid people/ what your cat did today. It's all good.

Edited because I originally wrote "Facebook statues".

That's ******** retarded. As if England is the only country with tons of problems. And as if the people of Haiti are less important than the people of England. Ugh.

@Morgey - It really really isn't ~_~. And health care and education should really be the highest priorities in a country so that's very disappointing.

Well...we're still there...like hey, if I could find health insurance that costs less than what I make in a year than maybe I could say, alright, let's go "help" other countries...although it should still only be countries that want our help. However, if you can't even take care of yourself, WHY are you getting involved elsewhere?!

How old is your brother now? That bad eyesight thing, makes me think of when my little brother was a little kid. When we'd drive past all the handicap parking spaces and have to park far away, he'd say "those lucky handicap with their special parking." Hahahaha, was cute because he was like 5 and didn't really understand disability. But yea, rarely does anyone say, those lucky disabled ^_~.

Yea, I'm rather enamored with the Swiss actually...but they have their problems too. I don't think anywhere should be a Utopia, but given that, people need to be less narrow in their judgment before making widespread accusations about how "wrong" they are.

And seriously, I mean again while I said you should be helping your own country...I meant before doing things like invading another country against their will under the guise of "aid". I would totally accept my government stepping up to help Haiti, an extremely impoverished country suffering from a horrible tragedy. I definitely do not resent them at all. As crappy as my health care is, and as awful as tuition fees might be, and though I'm probably facing a life of debt and financial agony, I still realize I'm much better off right now.

Yea, that's the downside to so many people. If we had fewer people, life > everything. And indeed, many people DO suck, and are taking up space..and health care money. Those, spacer taker uppers!

Are you the oldest? Even if so, that's quite the wide age spread there. My friend is 9 years younger than her closest sibling though I think, however the other 3 are all relatively close in age and she's just that late in life baby alone.

I personally don't know how I feel about public/military/etc etc service anymore. My friend who was a firefighter died over the summer, I've known him since I was about 8 or 9? So since he was about 5 or 6 (he was in scouts with my younger brother all the way through HS, and then our families became friends)? I mean he loved his job, and it's amazing that he could put the lives of others over his friends. But I miss him, and his family is still broken and that crushes me because I love them like family. The idea of letting a loved one enlist or go off and die, honorable cause or not, is just too painful. It's awful to say just let strangers go off and do that, but, I don't want to go to another funeral, at least not anytime soon. And definitely not for someone younger than myself.

Yea...oh well...suck builds character right? o_O

Even though me and my brother aren't particularly close, I do I guess prefer to be closer in age to my siblings, hopefully we'll be friends one day...maybe? He was really cool to me while we were dealing with the drama this summer. Anyhow my friend is actually close with her sister, despite the decade age gap, but most of my friends in really wide age gaps aren't "friends" with their siblings (the ones who are a few years apart are though, and I am jealous). I mean even my friend has only gotten to be friendly with her sister in recent years, after 20 or so years, just because of the wide disparity.

Yea, I doubt a useful thing exists. If it did, death probably wouldn't be so hard, but thanks.

In some ways I guess, though my friend has a really fierce rivalry with her brother whose 6 years younger. She can't grasp that yes he IS 6 years younger and a boy and they just won't be treated the same. She's more than halfway through college, he just started high school. I guess it just depends on personality.

Yea, I mean he's an immature brat, and I can understand her getting irritated and annoyed. In the end though, she's the adult, it's unfortunately up to her to be the mature one. I know, maturity is such a b*tch.

Ahh, now that would be utopia.