40 billion? That’s it? Are you sh!tting me? Feed the world!

I see. Your whole purpose here is to make an ass of yourself... got it.

I don't know what underprivelidged people are, but I've helped plenty of underprivileged people.

Let's see. Donated $25-$50 gift certificates to at least 100 different charities, 50% percent of the proceeds from 2 restaurants, on 3 occasions, cut a check for $4,000 to the family of poor local kid (Cedarburg) who needed a multiple organ transplant, have been doing the Save the Children with the Christian Children's Fund forever and pretty much every other damn thing the kids approach me with. You?

Again, your question was answered by the opening post, genius. Can you read?

No wonder the world is in such sorry shape. I start a thread questioning how tough it might be to feed starving children, and half the respondents think we shouldn't.

OCCOM BILL wrote:

[Chumly, the evidence I asked for was for your outrageous theories.

You made the claim as per my so-called "outrageous theories" thus I challenge you to logically demonstrate they are so-called "outrageous theories". If you cannot your assertion is specious.

I note my prior post has been dodged in terms of a fair and equal response, and as such if you are ill-prepared or otherwise disinclined to respond in kind I ask: why should I extend an as-a-rule shared and unpretentious courtesy that is not returned?

OCCOM BILL wrote:

You needn't reiterate that nonsense for a third time (once was more than enough).

More argumentum ad hominem, this does not in any way justly your positions, in fact quite the opposite.

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Show me one reputable study that thinks as you do.

Words to the effect of a third reiteration of nonsense with no proof

Thanks Thomas. I see that friendly old man from the Christian Children's Fund got to you too.

I see the problem. But, I'd still gladly give $10 per week. Long term, the key would be in the distribution of birth control and education. Not the food.

OCCOM BILL wrote:

I see. Your whole purpose here is to make an ass of yourself... got it.

Dream on hippie.

OCCOM BILL wrote:

I don't know what underprivelidged people are, but I've helped plenty of underprivileged people.

If you don't know who they are, how do you know who to help, William?

OCCOM BILL wrote:

Again, your question was answered by the opening post, genius. Can you read?

My reading skills are in the A plus category. I'm just now wondering about your comprehension skills, William.

OCCOM BILL wrote:

No wonder the world is in such sorry shape. I start a thread questioning how tough it might be to feed starving children, and half the respondents think we shouldn't.

I'm a realist Bill. Saving people so they can starve to death in front of us is not what I would call a humanitarian goalkick.

How will you feed them?

3. War is the likely outcome of having to share scarce water supplies across nations according to Mikhail Gorbachev, now president of Green Cross International. He points specifically to the Middle East where war within the next 10 to 15 years is likely if countries fail to reach an understanding regarding sharing water.

4. The Water Commissioner of Israel, Meir Ben Meir, envisages possible conflict over water issues between Israel, the Palestinians, Jordan and Syria. The water issue could well affect the Middle East peace talks. Israel must release land and water and alter its usage patterns to prevent war according to Palestinian leaders.

In the case of Save the Children it wasn't a friendly old man from the Christian Children's fund. It was a nice senior-highschool girl. She walked up to me in Chicago last year with a well-rehearsed, but warm and idealistic sales pitch. She steamrolled me. On my next internet session, anxious that I've fallen for a scam, I checked www.charitynavigator.com to check out what kind of organization Save the Children was. It turned out that not only are they not a scam, they are in fact fairly efficient at converting donations into benefits for the poorest people in the world. So I kept my membership alive.

Once there was one a push for a $1 tax for..... education, maybe? If every tax-payer gave an extra dollar we'd have tens of millions of dollars to fix our schools.

littlek wrote:

Once there was one a push for a $1 tax for..... education, maybe? If every tax-payer gave an extra dollar we'd have tens of millions of dollars to fix our schools.

I'll worry about this problem when every child in the world reaches school age -- because it hasn't died of chickenpox, measles, diarrhea, or some other ridiculously-easy-to-cure illness. But I agree with the spirit of your idea.