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Originally Posted by Flame On
And Captain, thanks for your discussion. Although I will just come back to your comments about him being a rock slinger from the side lines.
Bono has been nominated for the Nobel Peace prize on 3 occasions.
Times 100 most influential persons on multiple occasions.
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Thought I'd come back on this, because it kind of goes against what I'm saying, its great that he's won the peace prize, and its great that he's won the times 100.
However my point is that its easy for Bono to throw critisism from his view point because he dosen't have to factor in a governments total responsibility which means that a country has to ensure that its own internal issues where money can be to some extent be accounted for and used for its ultimate ends can be somewhat assured.
I have no problem with aid to african nations.
However at this point, Bono to me is acting like the mafia character in the Simpsons where all he's talking about is the money, where's the money. Right now with humanitarian aid, there dosen't seem to be any true accountability so we seem to be following the least possible effective solution which in Bono's eyes is to continue to up the ante and up the inflowing cash without actually providing the best possible service to these nations.
The fact that Bono has accused Harper of acting as a global scrooge while our government has committed to doubling its aid to 2 billion dollars strikes me as a little odious as well.
I'm firmly on Harper's side, when he said that he went to the G8 meeting to meet with heads of government not with Bono. And the fact that the meetings from a Canadian stanpoint sounds like they were pretty productive says that Harper wasn't wrong in sticking to his agenda.