World's wealthy worth $37.2 trillion and give <1% to charity

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  • CollinCollin Posts: 4,931
    i know you're right and i really don't like being this way. but let me give you an example. there was a kid (22 yrs old) and i had a 2001 dodge truck. balls to the walls. it was worth $26K but i sold it to this kid for $12K at $200.00/month. no money down. he just started as a hot shot fighting forest fires and makes almost a grand a week when he's in the fires. when he's not he's a fireman in town. so it seemed like a good bet. i haven't seen a penny since march and i'm trying to hunt him down to reposess the truck.
    it just doesn't pay to help people when it bites you in the bum.

    That sucks, man. There must be something wrong with the people there.
    THANK YOU, LOSTDAWG!


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  • onelongsongonelongsong Posts: 3,517
    Collin wrote:
    That sucks, man. There must be something wrong with the people there.

    the other part of the deal was he was going to help out on my ranch on the weekends. things like picking up hay and going to the dump. that's why i discounted it because he was going to use it to help me. prior to the sale; i paid him to help me so i believed him when he said he'd work here. he hasn't been here 1 day since the deal on dec 20th 2006.
  • El_KabongEl_Kabong Posts: 4,141
    CaterinaA wrote:
    Hi there :)


    OK, I must add that they were not created to help countries getting out of debt. IMF was created to be a lender of last resort for countries and the WB, to fund infrastructure. So there's a lot of things to blame them for, but helping countries to get out or debt is not their duty; actually as I said before- countries has to resort to them when they've exhausted all other possibilities, which means that the debt already is large. What the IMF usually does is they lend a country money to help it cope with large debt payments...


    Hello :)

    ok, but you said you thought they did good, i just see it differently. i think they exploit situations

    granted corruption in the country has a lot to do w/ things, i'm not disputing that. but parts of the contract to get their help seems geared towards exploiting the place in exchange for the money....to greedy, corrupt politicians/leaders
    standin above the crowd
    he had a voice that was strong and loud and
    i swallowed his facade cos i'm so
    eager to identify with
    someone above the crowd
    someone who seemed to feel the same
    someone prepared to lead the way
  • gue_bariumgue_barium Posts: 5,515
    Fuck the banks.

    Fuck civilization, really, if it comes to the predation that the banks have on this world as the end all that is becoming. Assholes!

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  • gue_bariumgue_barium Posts: 5,515
    gue_barium wrote:
    Fuck the banks.

    Fuck civilization, really, if it comes to the predation that the banks have on this world as the end all that is becoming. Assholes!

    Q: you're so brilliantly idiotic sometimes.
    A: I'm on the edge of things.

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  • CaterinaACaterinaA Posts: 572
    El_Kabong wrote:
    Hello :)

    ok, but you said you thought they did good, i just see it differently. i think they exploit situations

    granted corruption in the country has a lot to do w/ things, i'm not disputing that. but parts of the contract to get their help seems geared towards exploiting the place in exchange for the money....to greedy, corrupt politicians/leaders

    Actually, I think we partially agree. Maybe my English let me down in my previous post, but what I was trying to say was that not everything the IMF and the WB is bad, especially the WB. I believe there's plenty of wrongdoing by the IMF in Latin America, but at the same time as you guys say "it takes two to tango".

    Sorry if I led to understand other things, English is not my native tongue :)

    Cheers
    Caterian
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