Missing signature mars launch of war on hunger (Bush Admin refuses to back global tax)

Sydney Morning Herald ^ | September 22, 2004 | Irwin Arieff in New York

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Well, here’s some absolutely great news that I knew nothing about. Go Bush!

[2banana]

Socialism and Communism have starved more people than the UN could even imagine helping...

[RockinRight]

Bush to UN:

STFU!

[coconutt2000]

A Conservative America will never sign that!!!

That's outrageous! To think that the world leaders think they'll actually collect the money, and a pity that some people think this is anything but a way for corrupt UN officials to replace their cash cow, the Oil for Food program.

[SilentServiceCPOWife]

" 'Economic growth is the long-term solution to hunger and poverty,' she told the meeting."

And so is killing off corrupt leaders who take aid money and use it to buy planes and limousines for themselves.

[dirtboy]

Yeah, the UN did such a great job running Oil For Food, we should just hand them 71 billion a year...

[Excuse_Me]

Oh, the mean President Bush throwing cold water on the U.N. plan to replace the revenue stream they lost from Oil-for-Food when he invaded Iraq. Now, how will the hard-working bureaucrats at the U.N. ever get to be rich?

[SittinYonder]

ping

[ElkGroveDan]

Gee maybe its because we already tried wealth transfers in this country to the tune of over $5 trillion in the so-called war on poverty -- and it hasn't worked.

[Spackidagoosh]

They F'd up trying to feed Iraqi's why the hell would we bank roll that obviously corrupt organization more than we already do.

[Artemis Webb]

The United States gives more food to the 3rd world than all these countries put together. 'nuff said.

[Lizavetta]

Why don't they just abolish dictatorships? That would solve most of the global hunger problem right there.

[Stonedog]

Socialism and Communism have starved more people than the UN could even imagine helping...

Socialism and Communism have starved more people than the UN.

You should have stopped at that.

[Ciexyz]

Go Bush! Don't tax my credit card transactions to give a free ride to some dictator who doesn't care if his people starve.

[Polyxene]

These euro-trash countries are something else (I won't say what -- don't want to get banned!!) They are always whining for the USA to give money, money, money to their schemes and/or to come to the aid of one country or another. Yet, when we need their help, i.e., Iraq, they give us the middle finger salute. I'm tired of it! Good for Bush for standing up to these moochers!

[Shermy]

Sounds like a French agricultural export subsidy scheme.

[ElkGroveDan]

I've got an idea. You guys start. Goa head spend away. If you abolish half the poverty in the world. We'll do the rest. Deal?

[Publius6961]

"The greatest scandal is not that hunger exists but that it persists, even when we have the means to eliminate it. It is time to take action," read a declaration signed by 110 nations and adopted at the close of a summit on hunger on Monday.

Let us compile a list of countries, including these morally smug ones, and the corresponding amount each contributes to world hunger ---- or any humanitarian aid of any type.

Then let's talk again.

Until then, dear Euro-eunuchs, high-horse moralizing twits, buzz off!

[concerned about politics]

Notice how they try to put a pretty face on a fascist take over of Americas economy. "It's for the sake of the poor."

[Shermy]

It's the replacement for Food for Oil. Call it Food for Oil II.