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Posted on 04/25/2008 3:43:57 AM PDT by ricks_place
UNITED NATIONS - The World Food Program appealed for hundreds of millions of dollars to cope with rising food prices that have sparked protests and food riots and led to bans on food exports in dozens of countries.
Josette Sheeran, the WFP's executive director, said the U.N. agency is facing a 40 percent increase in the cost of food and requests for food aid from countries unable to cope with the rising prices.
It expects additional requests from nations like Haiti whose citizens are becoming part of "the new face of hunger," she told a video news conference from Rome Thursday with U.N. correspondents in New York. Riots in Haiti this month cost Prime Minister Jacques Edouard Alexis his job and set back international efforts to stabilize the country.
WFP usually helps between 80 and 90 million people a year with funds it raises entirely from voluntary contributions. It traditionally helps refugees and internally displaced people in places like Darfur as well and victims of natural disasters.
Sheeran said WFP's initial budget of $3.1 billion needed an additional $755 million just to cope with the increase in food prices. It also needs an extra $418 million for new requests including funds to help feed "2.5 million newly urgently hungry people" in Afghanistan, and new Iraqi refugees in Syria and elsewhere, she said.
That brings WFP's needs for 2008 to at least $4.3 billion. The agency's New York spokeswoman, Bettina Leuscher, said so far it has received just $1 billion.
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The EU can fund this, now that the EURO is so strong against the dollar.
If I were a cynic, I’d think the leftist eurotrash that runs the UN provokes these “crises” on purpose, in order to force more money and power down their gaping maw.
Hell with the world, how about we take care of our fellow Americans that are hungry before we send more money to that bottomless pit known as the U.N.
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“The EU can fund this, now that the EURO is so strong against the dollar.”
The UN, which is a shining example of the “Peter Principle”, wants only to suck America dry, and line the pockets of their elite leaders. It is the Kofi Cuckoo effect.
Who in the world trusts the UN with billions of dollars after seeing the graft in the Oil for Food program in Iraq? Perhaps they should contact all the UN crooks who stole that money to give to this crisis. That would include Kofe Annan and his son.
Exactly.American food for Americans first.If there’s anything left over,SELL it on the world market.Let the friggin’ Arabs fund the UN food programs.
This is SOOOOOOOOO predictable!
Get the darn corn out of our gas, build the refineries, build the Nuclear plants and lets get everything back on track!
I’m sure that someone will come up with an inefficient and costly means to change oil into an edible product. Our representatives, of course, will immediately mandate that a large percentage of our food supply contain this product. It will all average out when we have our food supply converted to fuel and our fuel supply converted to food. We elected these idiots and we can change the “crisis” by voting for the sane candidates next time, if any run.
I guess it’s time for the U.S. Taxpayer to play another game of ‘Ben Dover.’ Weren’t billions involved in the oil for food scam? Why don’t they give back those billions?
Charity begins at home. I rather put my dwindling budget toward my own family. I’m sick of my tax dollars going into some dictator’s pocket.
Another well run UN food-for-oil program? Hmmmm maybe several UN types got caught holding worthless sub-prime mortgage paper and they need a personal cash-fix????
“Hell with the world, how about we take care of our fellow Americans that are hungry before we send more money to that bottomless pit known as the U.N.”
Because the UN is a politically correct cause and US citizens aren’t. I say this with great bitterness.
The UN is like any other liberal charity. Ask for hundreds of millions and the fine citizens of the US, through their political heroe’s, will negotiate to a manageable “donation”.
Very good answers.
thanks
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