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.
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I'd quit work and go on welfare before I'd give the UFingN my hard earned money.
Every single UN report, meeting, conference, plan, approach, and intent all boil down to the same thing. "Gimme a dollar."
Should have read "U.N. Proposes Global Taxing Authority"
Double this.
Perhaps the UN should just halve the amount of money that it pockets.
Yes, by sending money we would usually send to the fat cat diplomats at the UN.
Why? Aren't there enough Third World millionaires with bank accounts in Switzerland already. There certainly should be no shortage after Oil For Food!
Inquiring minds want to know...
Money is never the problem. Throwing money at these unfortunates would solve nothing.
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.?
Especially since said unfortunates would see dang little of it.
Worldwide socialism.
Didn't the US income tax start at something like that rate ?
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 Donations means that said funds are voluntary, and may be withdrawn by the donating parties.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.
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.
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.
Get US out of the U.N.
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