Ultimate hypocrisy

[Gonzo]

Feed the children on your dime & feed us on your $50. :disgusted:

THE sickening champagne and caviar lifestyle being enjoyed by Earth Summit delegates was exposed yesterday.
They are gorging on mountains of lobster, oysters and fillet steak at the Johannesburg conference — aimed at ending FAMINE.

As the summit began yesterday, desperate kids in nearby shanty towns queued for water at standpipes.

Bigwig politicians among the 60,000 delegates, including Deputy PM John Prescott, also get vintage bubbly and brandy.

The chef is in charge of meals at Johannesburg’s five-star Michelangelo Hotel, where world leaders and other VIP delegates are staying during the “save the planet” conference, which opened yesterday.

While people are going hungry at shanty towns just a couple of miles away, Mr Morgan told how he had stocked up with an extraordinary array of delicacies and fine wines.

It includes 5,000 oysters, more than 1,000lbs of lobster and other shellfish, buckets of caviar and piles of pâté de foie gras.

He has also got in more than 4,400lbs of fillet steak and chicken breasts, 450lbs of salmon, 220lbs of a tasty South African fish called kingclip — and more than 1,000lbs of bacon and sausages.

A new kitchen has been especially created for world leaders, including the Sultan of Brunei, who have their own cooks and tasters.

The £35million summit — aimed at combating hunger, poverty and pollution — is centred around Sandton, the most exclusive suburb in Africa.

Its streets are lined with expensive restaurants, gated villas and gleaming shopping malls.

Yet close by, families scratch a desperate existence in the sprawling shanty town of Alexandra.

They live in corrugated shacks. Hungry children play among piles of rubbish and queue for water at standpipes.

The average weekly wage for the few who work in the township is less than the cost of a vintage brandy at the Michelangelo.

Aid agencies say southern Africa is facing its worst food crisis for more than a decade.

More than 14million people — most of them children — are threatened with starvation.

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[Professur]

Soooooo? Are we all supposed to starve with them? All the food mentioned wouldn't add up to a grain of rice each for the 14 million. They're there to help, giving their time, their money, their effort. They could easily have stayed at home. The real hypocrites are the ones that bitch and complain about how those who do don't do enough, while they do nothing at all.

 

[Gonzo]

It's a summit on FAMINE. Less than 100 yards from their scrumptious meals are starving kids. Maybe they could have orderd hamburgers & pepsi & spent the other $5,000,000. on food?

Or better yet, instead of spending umpteen amount on airfare, which polluted the environment, they could have used the internet & had a videoconference.

 

[Professur]

Or they could have held the party at home and given nothing. It's their money. Aren't the entitled to spend it as they will?

When we install computer on a night job. The work always seems to go faster if the customer is covering the pizza we order. Maybe these guys are the same way. But I doubt they normally order pizza when they work late.

 

[Gonzo]

Granted they can spend their money any way they choose. Don't you find it hypocritical that they are there to figure out how to use other peoples money to help these people when they spent £35million to feed & house themselves? Look at what could have been accompished with their money, alone. It just seems excessive & fitting for the elitist minority to go overboard.

 

[Professur]

You just stated the whole idea behind communism, my friend. If the rich gave their money to the poor instead of using it to employ the poor ... get it?

That 35 million didn't just evaporate. It went to feed and clothe people. Just not the people you see as needy.

 

[Gonzo]

Ouch! It's amazing how we see the same story & come at it from completely opposite directions.

I see them as gathering to figure out how to create socialism & you see it as capitalism at its finest.

 

[PostCode]

Well, I really have to wonder if the money is their's or is it money that is part of some organization and/or goverment slush fund....

 

[Professur]

Ouch! It's amazing how we see the same story & come at it from completely opposite directions.

I see them as gathering to figure out how to create socialism & you see it as capitalism at its finest.

That's the thing I love about these boards. They let you explore issues like this and flesh out the differing points of view. So often, there is no wrong or right.