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UN BARF ALERT: U.N. Report Urges Rich Nations to Double Aid to Poor
NYTimes.com ^ | January 17, 2005 | CELIA W. DUGGER

Posted on 01/17/2005 2:13:53 PM PST by indcons

An international team of experts sponsored by the United Nations proposed today a detailed, ambitious plan to halve extreme poverty and save the lives of millions of children and hundreds of thousands of mothers each year by 2015.

The 74-page report, which synthesizes 3,000 pages of findings by 265 experts, says that drastically reducing poverty in its many guises - hunger, illiteracy, disease - is "utterly affordable." Industrialized nations will need to double aid to poor countries, to 0.5 percent of their national incomes, it said.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: aid; foreignaid; kofiannan; oilforfood; poverty; un
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1 posted on 01/17/2005 2:13:58 PM PST by indcons
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To: indcons



I'd quit work and go on welfare before I'd give the UFingN my hard earned money.


2 posted on 01/17/2005 2:15:55 PM PST by SouthernFreebird
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To: indcons

Every single UN report, meeting, conference, plan, approach, and intent all boil down to the same thing. "Gimme a dollar."


3 posted on 01/17/2005 2:17:27 PM PST by TheBigB (Life is good. It'd be better if Jaime Pressly was here naked with a pizza. But it's still damn good.)
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To: indcons
Headline Error:

Should have read "U.N. Proposes Global Taxing Authority"

4 posted on 01/17/2005 2:18:19 PM PST by greydog
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To: indcons

Double this.


5 posted on 01/17/2005 2:19:02 PM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all)
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To: indcons

Perhaps the UN should just halve the amount of money that it pockets.


6 posted on 01/17/2005 2:19:28 PM PST by AQGeiger (RKBA Royal Enumerator of the Leguminous Stockpile, Wielder of the Enchanted Endoscope of Justice.)
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To: indcons

Yes, by sending money we would usually send to the fat cat diplomats at the UN.


7 posted on 01/17/2005 2:19:47 PM PST by msnimje
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To: indcons
Let's see. We work hard, work smart. Make money. Use our assets to the best benefit we can. Keep our people free and well fed. And our reward is to give it away?
8 posted on 01/17/2005 2:20:21 PM PST by Hi Heels (Proud to be a Pajamarazzi-Leef lang de Katjes van Viking)
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To: indcons
Oh... is that all?


9 posted on 01/17/2005 2:20:56 PM PST by Dead Corpse (Cum catapultae proscriptae erunt tum soli proscript catapultas habebunt.)
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To: indcons

Why? Aren't there enough Third World millionaires with bank accounts in Switzerland already. There certainly should be no shortage after Oil For Food!


10 posted on 01/17/2005 2:21:28 PM PST by drt1
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To: indcons
When in Hades is the UN going to permit OUTSIDE AUDITS??

Inquiring minds want to know...

11 posted on 01/17/2005 2:22:28 PM PST by mewzilla (Has CBS retracted the story yet?)
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To: indcons

Money is never the problem. Throwing money at these unfortunates would solve nothing.


12 posted on 01/17/2005 2:26:12 PM PST by tkathy (Ban all religious head garb.)
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To: indcons

Memo to the U.N.: How about doubling FREEDOM and CAPITALISM (the economics of Freedom) in the World? That would cure poverty right there. Or are these concepts alien to the countries that make up the U.N.?


13 posted on 01/17/2005 2:28:42 PM PST by CivilWarguy
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Money is never the problem. Throwing money at these unfortunates would solve nothing.

Especially since said unfortunates would see dang little of it.

14 posted on 01/17/2005 2:29:48 PM PST by mewzilla (Has CBS retracted the story yet?)
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To: indcons

Worldwide socialism.


15 posted on 01/17/2005 2:31:10 PM PST by my_pointy_head_is_sharp
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To: indcons
0.5 percent of their national incomes

Didn't the US income tax start at something like that rate ?

16 posted on 01/17/2005 2:34:38 PM PST by Raycpa (Alias, VRWC_minion,)
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Yes, this is actually the dollar figure that Koffi needs to begin the UN's journey as the world's de facto government.

Doesn't this asshat remember that the UN is funded BY DONATIONS already? Donations means that said funds are voluntary, and may be withdrawn by the donating parties.

Keep talking, Coughing Anus, every time you open your pie hole asking for money the American taxpayers who enable your existence get just a little more fed up.


17 posted on 01/17/2005 2:40:24 PM PST by datura (Destroy The UN, the MSM, and China. The rest will fall into line once we get rid of these.)
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To: indcons

How about having the poor countries become rich. Have them follow our example. That's what John Winthrop's "shining city upon a hill" is all about.


18 posted on 01/17/2005 2:40:49 PM PST by cotton1706
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To: indcons

How about having the poor countries become rich. Have them follow our example. That's what John Winthrop's "shining city upon a hill" is all about.


19 posted on 01/17/2005 2:40:57 PM PST by cotton1706
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To: SouthernFreebird

Get US out of the U.N.


20 posted on 01/17/2005 2:42:17 PM PST by television is just wrong (Our sympathies are misguided with illegal aliens)
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