Worthy News: N Korea faces choice between food and arms - Financial Ti

[George]

North Korea could again face severe food shortages, analysts and aid agencies warned on Wednesday, after South Korea took the unusual step of threatening to cut off rice and fertiliser supplies if Pyongyang tested a long-range missile as feared.

http://www.worthynews.com/news/ft-com-cms-...0779e2340-html/

[Leonard]

North Korea could again face severe food shortages, analysts and aid agencies warned on Wednesday, after South Korea took the unusual step of threatening to cut off rice and fertiliser supplies if Pyongyang tested a long-range missile as feared.

http://www.worthynews.com/news/ft-com-cms-...0779e2340-html/

Kim Jong (Mentally) Il will not care. He has already made the choice to starve his people. The average North Korean is 8 inches shorter, and 1/2 the body weight of his South Korean counterpart!

[O'Dannyboy]

I agree. The very idea that they would even develope nucluear technology despite a famine shows how he realy views the people of his country. In a way it's like our own government. They persist in spending billions of dollars a year on shuttle missions and other pie in the sky projects while tens of thousdands of our citizens, if not more, remain homeless and hungry. While I think most of us would agree that we must invest a certain percentage of our monies toward advancement and developement we cannot continue to turn a blind eye to those in our nation that are homeless and hungry. Our government needs to become more efficient in its spending, plain and simple.

[Leonard]

Oh bosh and bother! Anybody hungry in America goes hungry because they are not only too lazy to work, but to go to the many, many charity dining halls all over America.

I'll put you to the challenge, Danny Boy: "BRING OUT THE DEAD!!!! BRING OUT THE DEAD!!!!" Lets have a look at all these deaths by starvation.

[O'Dannyboy]

Oh bosh and bother! Anybody hungry in America goes hungry because they are not only too lazy to work, but to go to the many, many charity dining halls all over America.

I'll put you to the challenge, Danny Boy: "BRING OUT THE DEAD!!!! BRING OUT THE DEAD!!!!" Lets have a look at all these deaths by starvation.

I didn't say they were starving or had even starved, sure there are plenty of soup kitchens across the U.S. and all of them funded by charity, not government funds. Understandably many of the homeless people I speak of are there as a result of their own doing, but there are many who are not. Are we to assume that every homeless disabled vet is homeless because he was a drunkard? Our government seems to spend more money on prisoner rehabilitation than it does for our homeless. The point is that our government simply does not gove the homeless problem the attention, or funding, that it deserves. Instead we have politicians sneaking ammendments into bills for 300 million dollar bridges for settlements with populations of 250 people in the middle of nowhere.

[Leonard]

Having dealt with the homeless a great deal, I can tell you that out of 500 homeless, there is perhaps one...the proportion is probably even lower than this...who has a legitimate 'hard luck story'. The rest are drunks, addicts, the mentally ill that the ACLU forced out of the mental hospitals (thank you very much), or people SO MEAN that their OWN FAMILIES couldn't even stand to have them around any more! Whenever we are able, we ought to give them food or blankets, or clothing, or donate to a shelter, but the only government money spent should be to fight the ACLU and the Supreme Court, and get the 'crazies' back off the streets and into the mental hospitals, where these poor folks can get the medication and help they really need.

As far as the drunks, addicts, and plain mean criminal homeless, I must say the Bible has some PRETTY STRICT RESTRICTIONS on just who is allowed to receive church welfare, AND THEY AIN'T ON THE LIST!!!

[tah]

Tyrannical governments are notoriously known for their lack of concern for their people..

they care not if the people suffer and die as long as they themselves do not....

Our government has no comparison to his....

We spend millions on the homeless....

I can agree our government wastes millions but that is not comparable to ill...

[Marnie]

Having dealt with the homeless a great deal, I can tell you that out of 500 homeless, there is perhaps one...the proportion is probably even lower than this...who has a legitimate 'hard luck story'. The rest are drunks, addicts, the mentally ill that the ACLU forced out of the mental hospitals (thank you very much), or people SO MEAN that their OWN FAMILIES couldn't even stand to have them around any more! Whenever we are able, we ought to give them food or blankets, or clothing, or donate to a shelter, but the only government money spent should be to fight the ACLU and the Supreme Court, and get the 'crazies' back off the streets and into the mental hospitals, where these poor folks can get the medication and help they really need.

As far as the drunks, addicts, and plain mean criminal homeless, I must say the Bible has some PRETTY STRICT RESTRICTIONS on just who is allowed to receive church welfare, AND THEY AIN'T ON THE LIST!!!

Thank you for this post. I thought I was alone in this opinion.

Governments should not be in the catering business. Lack of food isn't the problem, lack of freedom and lack of capitalism is.

[O'Dannyboy]

Having dealt with the homeless a great deal, I can tell you that out of 500 homeless, there is perhaps one...the proportion is probably even lower than this...who has a legitimate 'hard luck story'. The rest are drunks, addicts, the mentally ill that the ACLU forced out of the mental hospitals (thank you very much), or people SO MEAN that their OWN FAMILIES couldn't even stand to have them around any more! Whenever we are able, we ought to give them food or blankets, or clothing, or donate to a shelter, but the only government money spent should be to fight the ACLU and the Supreme Court, and get the 'crazies' back off the streets and into the mental hospitals, where these poor folks can get the medication and help they really need.

As far as the drunks, addicts, and plain mean criminal homeless, I must say the Bible has some PRETTY STRICT RESTRICTIONS on just who is allowed to receive church welfare, AND THEY AIN'T ON THE LIST!!!

Thank you for this post. I thought I was alone in this opinion.

Governments should not be in the catering business. Lack of food isn't the problem, lack of freedom and lack of capitalism is.

I don't think there is a lack of capitolism here in the U.S. In a way, I think capitolism needs to be checked to some degree. If it weren't for the mega-corporations, most companies wouldn't be trying to justify keeping wages down just to fund some form of respectable growth. Alcoholism and drug addiction should be considered worthy of jail terms long enough to break th chain if these people are unwilling to seek help. If dealing and posessing drugs is illegal then so should using them. It's like prostitution. If they can arrest the "Johns" for paying for sex, then they should arrest drug users/addicts for uncontrolled use of controlled substances. I don't think we should turn a blind eye to their situations simply because the people didn't have the will to help themselves. If you don't think we should be giving these people hand outs in the form of welfare our housing, then we should spend the money to force them to give up the activities that are creating their problems. I think society has some responsibility in providing the underprivilaged with the means to overcome their situations, drugs, alcohol or whatever.

[apothanein kerdos]

Unchecked capitalism is nowhere near the evil of unchecked communism......I'd prefer to not have either, but if I must choose.....

The fact is, if North Korea were democratic to some extent they would not have the problems they have.