[kattracks]

UN looking for more funds to take up the slack left by the oil for food fiasco?

[samtheman]

too little effort to meet goals adopted by all 191 U.N. member states at the Millennium Summit in 2000 to reduce poverty and illiteracy and improve health care

In a large majority of those 191 member states, the local federal government is the direct cause of the local "poverty, illiteracy and poor health".

[rdb3]

UN looking for more funds to take up the slack left by the oil for food fiasco?

Now that you mention it...

[patj]

Egeland said that after seeing ``how we get about one-third of what we ask for in assistance to the poorest of the poor in the poorest countries,'' it was important ``to say that rich nations in general we hope should give more.''

So, do you think that they have tripled what they ask for? The Socialist Society that is the UN is now asking us to tithe. Let's see the figures on who is giving. Dear UN open your books. Does the Freedom of Info. Act apply to them? If they can make rules for us we should be able to make rules for them.

[marty60]

Ah I see the U.N. is back to digging it's grave.

[freeangel]

Apparently, this jerk pays no taxes to start with. He must be a ggod friend of annans.

[iso]

Egeland is a idiot !

[bikepacker67]

rich do too little to assist the poor when there are no emergencies

So we aren't giving enough to tin-horn dictators?

[StonyBurk]

Typical Soviet Communist dialectic. Class warfare 101.
Can only add the Americans ought respond "We were a better
nation before we embraced the extra-Constitutional oppression of the Soviet Communist reflected glory world
empire called the U.N.

[mewzilla]

UN looking for more funds to take up the slack left by the oil for food fiasco?

All those crooks have bills to pay, don'cha know.

BTW, anyone catch Howard Fineman on the Today show this morning? Makes me wished I still subscribed to his rag so I could cancel it.

[Real Cynic No More]

The goal set by the United Nations is to have rich countries spend 0.7 percent of gross national income for aid to developing countries,...

Well, if the libs keep doing what they've been doing, the GNI will diminish so that that percentage will go up.

[GOP_Proud]

I heard yesterday that of all aid and relief from disasters world wide last year (not typical foreign aid, but designated relief) the US provided 40%. That's on top of what we supplied for our own country. Not shabby in my eyes.

There's an old story:

Everyday my mom made biscuits and gravy for breakfast. Getting tired of it, we complained. The next morning, we just had gravy on the table. When we asked what was going on, she said, "I thought you were tired of biscuits and gravy".

[OpusatFR]

It's a game.

We aren't going to allow the Tobin Tax. Screw that.

[Dilbert56]

Typical socialist tripe - equating our government with our country. News flash commiewannabe - the United States is a people - not just a government. BTW - you're stupid comments are taking the focus off saving lives. But you UN types always miss the point, don't you.