If you had a bottomless pit of money?
The little I've learned from life suggests I had a bottomless pit of money I'd look at practical and effective ways of helping people...real help, not the role-playing we see day after day from government instrumentalities which are now so bureacratised they no longer achieve tasks, they just create employment for more bureaucrats.
Real help means lots of people at the sharp-end, with a small administrative arm in constant close contact with the people at the front line. No consultants. No career bureaucrats. A minimum of legal people, and absolutely no social engineers of any kind. Just people helping with practical ideas and measures that achieve tasks.
In many cases in the 3rd world, there are few problems in small to medium-sized communitites that can't be solved with a freshwater pipe going into the place and a sewer-pipe leading out of it. A team of task-focussed engineers could achieve that in a few weeks. A government getting international aid can't achieve the same task in anything under five years.
Real help means lots of people at the sharp-end, with a small administrative arm in constant close contact with the people at the front line. No consultants. No career bureaucrats. A minimum of legal people, and absolutely no social engineers of any kind. Just people helping with practical ideas and measures that achieve tasks.
In many cases in the 3rd world, there are few problems in small to medium-sized communitites that can't be solved with a freshwater pipe going into the place and a sewer-pipe leading out of it. A team of task-focussed engineers could achieve that in a few weeks. A government getting international aid can't achieve the same task in anything under five years.
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"I'll have an A380 that one of you guys can fly for me, with a kick ass cargo door that will fit my S76 chopper, that someone else can fly and i'll sit in the back and drink JD on the rocks while making conversation with a penthouse pet 
I'm sure money could buy happiness"
What are you talking to her for?
I'm sure money could buy happiness"What are you talking to her for?
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"I'll have an A380 that one of you guys can fly for me, with a kick ass cargo door that will fit my S76 chopper, that someone else can fly and i'll sit in the back and drink JD on the rocks while making conversation with a penthouse pet I'm sure money could buy happiness"
What are you talking to her for?
I'm sure money could buy happiness"What are you talking to her for?
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I would endeavour tp persuade the PNG Govt (a bit of 'gris' would go a long way methinks) to permit me to remove a few P38 wrecks from the country and would then proceed to restore one or more to flying condition.
Well, the thread title did say a 'bottomless pit' of money!!
Well, the thread title did say a 'bottomless pit' of money!!
