Do u think Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, or Daz will donate to Somalia?

[Hood Crawler]

I know what you mean. Maybe if all the people who made over 20k a year put $1 mil toward the USA despite the taxes they all pay, we could solve our whole national debt. crises along with other countries too! I would if I had that kinda bank.

[V2DHeart]

Some people just don't understand how expensive it really is to volunteer. After I gave up my monthly payments to charities including Inspiring Children, and Action Aid (around £50 a month for those 2 alone) I looked into volunteering my time, and going over for a week or two to help out in Kenya. It wasn't cheap. The charitable groups involved wanted a ridiculous amount, then there was the flights, which weren't cheap either... All in all to help out, and give my time, I could have took my family abroad on holiday in the sun for a week. I tried different companies, and organizations, but they were all the same. You can't just hop on a plane, and wander out in the wilderness yourself. You need some form of security, direction, and knowledge of where you can and can't go. There's too many middle men in the way making money, and there's no getting away from it, or through it to help where it matters for ordinary people like you or I.

The reason I gave up action aid, and other charities is because I felt my money wasn't being served correctly.. Although the 2 I mentioned I gave a decent amount to. I had around 6 others, which I only gave £2 a month to, and every month I would get leaflets, small booklets, letters etc. and at Xmas time I'd receive a Christmas catalogue showing tools, equipment, etc and how much of a donation it'd require to get them for the people. I felt my £2 alone wasn't even covering the amount of administration costs involved in the bulk of crap being sent to my door wanting more, so I stopped every single one of them.. Now, I just donate tins, food, toiletries to my local homeless shelter every Christmas, and help out locally where I can

One rapper who does help out Africa, and who's been out there a few times is ex Death Row rapper VK. Last time I spoke with her, she was ready to head out to Africa again to help out. She puts in a lot of time in effort into that country, and she doesn't even rap anymore, so it doesn't always require big time rappers to give money away blindly

[papa-smurf]

shits garbage & im not sipporting messy because he dissing too short.im not feeling that

[V2DHeart]

People Are quite within their rights to say 'fk it', because at the end of the day, the general attitude over in Somalia, Kenya, and any other poor nation is exactly the same...
 
I have 2 kids. 2 boys, and we would like a girl, but you know why we don't try for another one right now? Because at the moment we can't afford another child, Yet these Africans can have up to a total of 11 kids, with only 4-5 still alive and on the border line of survival, and starving, and it doesn't stop them from firing out any more. That's the real issue here.. Distributing the available food is the second biggest problem. But the root cause of this is the use of safe sex. They really need to take every man (and women) from these countries and get them vasectomised, stop the birth rate, which could halt the escalation of problems. Probably no point in supplying condoms because they wouldn't use them... Once they can't have anymore kids, it then gives them an area to focus on, and a number that wont double in the next few years. We wonder why our resources to help are stretched, when they can't even help themselves. It's selfish behaviour

[Jimmy H.]

That's real talk, Mickaveli. At least, I can respect where you are going with this unlike other dude who seems to just want bitch to come off as socially responsible or something. Fact is money ain't shit toward a cause if you don't know how it is going to be managed or where it's eventually going. Yes, Dre or Jay-Z could throw out a cool couple mill toward some cause to get a cute little press release with some good P.R. but what is the end result? Getting a multi-millionaire to donate some money isn't going to fix anything. You need a person with strong ideas to spearhead it all. What is the end result of a Dr. Dre or Jay-Z or Jimmy Iovine or fucking Bill Gates or whoever throwing whatever amount of money into Somalian relief efforts? End result. They get good P.R. for a couple weeks and people still starve while they figure out what to do with that money. You can have all the damn money and good intentions you want, without stradegies to manage the problem, it's just one giant money pit. 

[V2DHeart]

Exactly.. People can throw a load of money at a campaign, but people with money are smart enough (or have people around them who are smart enough) to know fine well that a quarter of it wont even reach the people they intend to help.
A lot of these people do actually give out to their own charities, and their own ideas locally or in-state.

This is when diplomatic BS needs to be sorted out and have the public taxes, which are used to fund the military have them out doing work like this as in creating safe routes for the food, which is available already to be distributed to the people. Instead they're in places like Iraq, and Afghanistan on no-win oil wars. Here in the UK, our armed forces are at full stretch almost, and I'd rather have them in places like Africa doing good causes rather than out in Afghanistan. At least I'd feel a bit better knowing my taxes are being put to good use

I'll continue to get a big cardboard box filled with packets of pasta, tinned food, soap, towels, socks, and everything else and hand it into the homeless shelter here as I do every Christmas. My heart goes out to the Somalian people, and I'd love to help, but I know my donations wont really do much good

[BIGWORM]

Why should they give a fuck about somalia? There are people starving in the U.S.

[Jimmy H.]

I can't be the only one old enough to remember when Somalia was "national news" the first time. It was literally the country we all associated with third-world starvation. This might come as a shock to Bildeberg but U.S. troops were even deployed there. As much as you think Jay-Z and Diddy could just go there with their security and enough food and medicine to handle the problem. It ain't gonna work. Though maybe Dre's drum beats could keep Somali warlords at bay.

[Dre-Day]

I can't be the only one old enough to remember when Somalia was "national news" the first time. It was literally the country we all associated with third-world starvation. This might come as a shock to Bildeberg but U.S. troops were even deployed there. As much as you think Jay-Z and Diddy could just go there with their security and enough food and medicine to handle the problem. It ain't gonna work. Though maybe Dre's drum beats could keep Somali warlords at bay.

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[O.G A.Geesta'z]

Daz would probably donate some crack

[BiggBoogaBiff]

shot out to 50

[Chamillitary Click]

I find it funny people turn to well known names to donate money. I never look to celebrities to give their money away. It's just stupid.

1. If you look to celebrities to donate $10,000 dollars of their money, then you BETTER have donated $100 of your money. That's easily the equivalent.

2. What does it matter who donates as long as the money gets there? Why not ask if those mutli-billionaires who give you the Dre, Daz & Snoop's of the World to donate an easy million to whatever you're concerned about?

[Jimmy H.]

I find it funny people turn to well known names to donate money. I never look to celebrities to give their money away. It's just stupid.

1. If you look to celebrities to donate $10,000 dollars of their money, then you BETTER have donated $100 of your money. That's easily the equivalent.

2. What does it matter who donates as long as the money gets there? Why not ask if those mutli-billionaires who give you the Dre, Daz & Snoop's of the World to donate an easy million to whatever you're concerned about?

These are very good points, CC. It's the kind of stuff I like to debate with folks. I've had this argument with a lot of people when it comes to "pro athletes" and how OVERPAID they are and I always make the argument that athletes are making peanuts compared to the people who run the organizations and yet we always blame them because they are the ones whose images are out there. But you really think about it. These are the guys who have to go out and start from scratch and sacrifice their quality of life in hopes of one day getting that big paycheck and endorsement deals. It's a little different with entertainers but it's still their blood, sweat, and tears that goes into their work. 

[Chamillitary Click]

^I mean, I'd take any sacrifice for that kind of money, but there are always people higher than those in the limelight that we never hear about who makes more than the Yankees combined annually lol.

[Jimmy H.]

^I mean, I'd take any sacrifice for that kind of money, but there are always people higher than those in the limelight that we never hear about who makes more than the Yankees combined annually lol.

But we generally only look at the rewards and don't know the depth of the sacrifices these guys make. The thing I tend to feel though is it's not on anybody to tell the next person how to spend their money, because they didn't help them earn it. If you buy their album, you can be a critic of what you spent your money on but that's where it stops.