(U2 vocalist) Bono thanks Vatican for helping with debt forgiveness

cna ^ | November 16, 2012

[NYer]

Vatican City, Nov 16, 2012 / 06:10 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- The famous U2 vocalist Bono traveled to the Vatican Nov. 16 to thank the Church for its work to free the world's least developed countries from their foreign debt, enabling them to invest in education.

[NYer]

Ping!

[Tax-chick]

to free the world's least developed countries from their foreign debt, enabling them to invest in education.

I'd like to see proof of the "investment in education" as well as some education outcomes before I believe this accomplished anything but making some rich people and dictators feel better about themselves.

[V_TWIN]

thats the thing that kept me from embracing the music of u2 any more that I have, always been WAY too political.

[Venturer]

Yeah: I could be wrong ,but I doubt the countries once freed of debt will be putting that money into edycation.

It has been proven right here in the United States of America that the more ignorant a population the better chance of Faux Presidents being re-elected.

[Venturer]

Sorry I really do know how to spell education, my fingers are big and hit letters I sometimes do not want to hit. LOL

[mylife]

St Bono the smug

[A.A. Cunningham]

Also, do not post images from Corbis or Getty.

[Future Snake Eater]

The success of that effort has made possible “an extra 52 million children going to school,” Bono told Vatican Radio

Hell, why not 520 million children? I mean, as long as we're making up numbers...

[EEGator]

I thought you did it as a joke.

[melsec]

I would really lie a list of these countries where debt has been forgiven. So many would be places where corruption is rife within government institutions. I would be very surprised to see that the money went anywhere other than in the pockets of those in charge.

Mel

[Fiji Hill]

U-2? It's interesting that a musical group would name itself after an old Soviet war plane.

Polikarpov U-2

[RugerMini14]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1394422/Saint-Bono-facing-huge-Glastonbury-protest—avoiding-tax.html

[Magic Fingers]

“St Bono the smug”

Amen. Pompous twerp.

[Bigg Red]

“St Bono the smug”

Amen. Pompous twerp.

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Yep! I wonder how many poor children could have been fed with the money he spent on this trip for his photo op with the Pope.

[krb]

+1

[Tax-chick]

Call me a cynic ...

I don’t, actually, think that debt forgiveness is necessarily a bad thing, but as for its helping the ordinary citizens of the world’s miserable places ... probably not.

[Moltke]

The famous U2 vocalist Bono...

I suppose vocalist is the polite way to say loudmouth.