Helping the poor in Bangladesh

[Free Market Fred]

Dear Fellow Christians,

Perhaps some of you have seen this recent news item...

2 owners of Bangladesh garment factories arrested as death toll in collapse reaches 324

The Associated Press
Published: 26 April 2013 07:54 PM

SAVAR, Bangladesh -Two owners of garment factories in a Bangladesh building that collapsed into a pile of mangled metal and concrete have been arrested as public fury mounts over the accident that left at least 324 dead.
Junior Home Minister Shamsul Haque Tuku said Saturday that police had arrested Bazlus Samad, managing director of New Wave Apparels Ltd., and Mahmudur Rahman Tapash, the company chairman.

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I must say that when I heard the news, I was deeply shocked. You see, my company, Uranus Corporation, was the owner of that factory. And I must say, what a great factory it was - one of our most profitable! The children who worked there were all well-fed, given a clean mat to sleep on under their sewing tables, and we only used the most humane comfortable leg irons on them. I would say it was a model factory, better than anything we have for our Chink gulag employees.

Anyway, just last week we decided to do a great Christian charitable deed and donate the entire factory to the Bangladeshi people! We did this just hours after receiving a report from our site engineer about the integrity of the building structure. Although the engineer did note a few issues involving "cracks" (which he circled with a big red pen), we didn't think it was important that our employees liked to make wise cracks at work - I'm mean, after all, we've got a sense of humor too. So we edited out that nonsense about the wise cracks, and our accountants entered the report from the engineer, reporting that the building was certified as 100% safe.

Then, after a brief board meeting, we decided that we wanted to do something nice for our employees, to reward them for all their years of loyal service. We randomly chose two of our supervisors, Mr Bazlus Samad and Mr Mahmudur Rahman Tapash, promoted them to managing director and company chairman respectively, and donated the entire building to them! They couldn't believe their good fortune. We presented them with the deed (which we back-dated five years), congratulated them, took some photos of the ceremony (which we've accidentally deleted later - sorry) and promptly hurried the American managers into a LearJet and out of the country.

Then just two days later, the building collapsed! Well, you can imagine how shocked we were! I mean here we go and do a great charitable thing to help the poor, and then those sunburned curry eaters just let the whole thing go to pot in a few days and building collapses.

I swear, it's no use trying to help the poor. Without the job creators like myself to run things, that pissant little country would go to Hell in a handbasket.


Great gift for the Bangladeshi people. Only needs a roof job.

[Levi Jones]

Re: Helping the poor in Bangladesh

Amen, Brother. No good deed goes unpunished with the poor. Just make you sure you continue to donate to God's Favorite Church. We will keep your sky box ready should you have need of it.

[WilliamJenningsBryan]

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You have certainly left Bangladesh with a jewel of postmodern architecture Brother Fred. It has the unmistakable look of the work of Frank Gehry. No doubt Bangladesh will become a tourist mecca.

[MitzaLizalor]

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I would be prepared to contribute my small share of any recent art festivals to help ameliorate distress, and to bring The Good News to those in need. Do you know any suppliers of waterproof Bibles at a good price (sufficient to reach many affected Bangladeshis)?

In an appropriate language?

[Talitha]

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I'm donating some Bibles.

The more these Heathens learn about Jesus the better.

[MitzaLizalor]

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Is there a mission to Balgladesh planned? I've found some lead soldiers in the local Salvation Army window (I didn't go in, it smells funny).

I think they're British and it's got camels and everything.


They've got more downstairs they said, and they can't sell them or something but I remember a year or two ago that Barbie's toilet (and the matching dog) were withdrawn from here due to lead content. They were from Asia somewhere so they must have different regulations and I think these would be OK? Let me know, and I can get them to forward the lot. I gather there's quite a few.

[Pastor Ezekiel]

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There's an old documentary of when a tribe of hippie rock-and-rollers got together and tried to "help" that pathetic city years ago. How their caterwauling and devil worship could help a bunch of starving, naked godless savages is beyond me. What they need is Prayer.

[Godfly]

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The problem remains the same, you give something to the poor and they become dependent on you and want more. You gave them a job now they wanr a safe building to work in. Wbg didn't the employees fix the building themselves if they were so concerned about safety? The people in Bangladesh need to stop pointing their fingers at the job creators and pull themselves up by their feet straps (I assume they haven't invented bootsyet).

They need to find something they have in abundance and create a business model around that. Perhaps some kind of mud based business.

[Mary Thompson]

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The problem remains the same, you give something to the poor and they become dependent on you and want more. You gave them a job now they wanr a safe building to work in. Wbg didn't the employees fix the building themselves if they were so concerned about safety? The people in Bangladesh need to stop pointing their fingers at the job creators and pull themselves up by their feet straps (I assume they haven't invented bootsyet).

They need to find something they have in abundance and create a business model around that. Perhaps some kind of mud based business.

The poor don't seem to have the ability to realize when enough is enough, you give them one thing they'll want another .

[Rev. Waynetta Kerr]

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I love Bangladesh. They make such lovely clothes, and at a reasonable price, too.

[James Hutchins]

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Sorry to hear about your factories, Fred. Just thank Jesus you have the massive insurance polices we took out a few months ago. It was my pleasure to cosign. Who would of thought we would be making a claim so soon! God does work in mysterious ways.

If the dots focused and prayed to Jesus and not cows and elephants, perhaps they could be eating steaks and have homes made of of materials other than dung.

These third world countries, chock full of people destined for Hell. Though the hindoodoos are living it on Earth, the double whammy.

[Mary Etheldreda]

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I'm donating some Bibles.

The more these Heathens learn about Jesus the better.

Dear Sister, this compassion brings a tear to my eye! Not only will people be given the only way to Salvation, but clearly God blesses those who fear and love Him. I mean, when was the last time a building spontaneously fell down in an area where God's Sovereignty is Absolute (the Texas fertilizer plant doesn't count because that was clearly Satan's doing)?

[Ezekiel Bathfire]

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Dear Fellow Christians,
I swear, it's no use trying to help the poor. Without the job creators like myself to run things, that pissant little country would go to Hell in a handbasket

When I hear of such tragedies, I always think of Jesus's comforting words:

M't:26:11: For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always.

There will be other poor people to take the place of those jihadists who died and, in their turn, they will see the Gates of Hell.

It is perhaps a good time, whilst grief and despair fill the air, to send missionaries who can approach the desperate widows to enable them to find comfort and reason in this Act of God.