Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 03/04/2009 9:26:40 AM PST by jessduntno
Gordon Brown has issued a call to America to take a lead in the world's battle against recession and climate change.
Mr Brown believes that securing active US support is vital to his hopes of reaching agreement on a "global new deal" involving reform of international financial supervision, fiscal stimulus and bank restructuring at the G20 meeting of leading economies in London on April 2.
In an upbeat message about the prospects of economic recovery, Mr Brown said, watched by his wife Sarah: "I believe that ours is a time for renewal, for a plan for tackling recession and building for the future. Every continent playing their part in a global new deal, a plan for prosperity that can benefit us all."
A day after becoming the first European leader to hold face-to-face talks with Barack Obama in the Oval Office, Mr Brown hailed the president's inauguration in January as a day which "gave the world renewed hope".
The unspoken message of his address was that the replacement of George Bush with Mr Obama in the White House had created the circumstances for the US to tackle the world's most pressing problems with the eager support of nations around the globe.
Aware that many of his audience are pressing Mr Obama to focus on defending American jobs and companies against foreign imports, he called on them to reassert their faith in global free trade and added: "Should we succumb to a race to the bottom and a protectionism that history tells us in the end protects no-one?". "No. We should have the confidence that we can seize the opportunities ahead and make the future work for us."
(Excerpt) Read more at gallowaygazette.co.uk ...
NO! NO! NO!
NOT NOW... NOT EVER!
“Global new deal”? How about we worry about the United States?
““Global new deal”? How about we worry about the United States?”
but, what about the grand applause around the world? Obammy gotta get him some of that...
Can’t do one without the other. Green policies destroy economies which creates recession which leads to heavily subsidized “green jobs” which eventually devalues currency which leads to even more recession.
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