UN: Poor States May Need Aid For $wine Flu

Reuters ^ | April 27, 2009

[Oldeconomybuyer]

UNITED NATIONS, April 27 (Reuters) - The world must make sure that poorer countries hit hard by other crises do not have to bear the brunt of any possible swine flu pandemic, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Monday.

"The swine flu outbreak shows yet again that, in our interconnected world, no nation can deal with threats of such dimension on its own," Ban told reporters.

He added that if the swine flu outbreak becomes a pandemic, global solidarity will be crucial.

"Poorer nations are especially vulnerable," he said. "They have been hit hard by other crises this year -- food, energy, the global economy, climate change. We must ensure that they are not also hit disproportionately hard by a potential health crisis."

He said that the World Bank and other U.N. development and humanitarian agencies would "mobilize to ensure that countries needing additional financial resources to combat an epidemic will have them."

[April Lexington]

Here we go.... throw open the US Treasury doors and start handing out the billions. We the totally bankrupt of America need to save every last peasant from the latest flu fad!

[CGASMIA68]

OK Obama heres you chance to f’up again.....send all the meds to them then we will run out at the peak.......

[JudyinCanada]

Oh oh - I have a feeling I know who is going to (again) send massive amounts of help to countries that would just as soon see America wiped off the map. Think tsunami....

Amazing how they hate capitalism but sure appreciate having it around to tap into when it’s needed.

[beethovenfan]

Hey, thanks to Obumble, WE are now a poor nation. So pony up, UN.

[Obadiah]

Man! That was fast! Here is Obama’s chance to pledge 3% of our GDP to Venezuela or Cuba or something. We’re giving the PLO $900 million whay not. Obama can’t give our money away fast enough and the world knows it. Obama is bankrupting us.

[messierhunter]

What are you talking about? That’s his whole strategy! After all, “white man’s greed runs a world in need.” We need to get rid of the “predominantly white America’s” medicine so the rest of the world can have it.

[messierhunter]

We must ensure that they are not also hit disproportionately hard by a potential health crisis.

That's right, we need to achieve equal results, parity... by dying more.

[Red_Devil 232]

Lets just give the U.N. $50K thatautadoit!

[Will88]

They don’t miss a chance anymore. Any conceivable excuse for the UN to say affluent nations should send money to poorer nations is immediately jumped upon.

[Waryone]

Quarantine Mexico. That’s right, that means sealing the borders. Wait, I forgot we don’t do that.

[April Lexington]

There is no longer ANY intellectual nexus between government spending money and where government money comes from. Now that the Fed has agreed to print as much as is needed to sell every US bond financing AND keep interest rates low (QE), there will be no stopping them from handing out dollars to EVERY liberal cause in the Galaxy. They have managed to de-link public spending from the tax base. Now, taxes are used to suppress the ambitious and the productive, not to fund public spending.

The United States is broke and interest rates are low ONLY because the Fed is using its open market transaction powers to manipulate the interest rate markets (in violation of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934. Nobody really knows what real interest rates are at the moment. The Fed is manipulating to fund this kind of public spending.

[MeanWestTexan]

Best thing that ever happened to Europe was the black death.

Re-arranged failed social structure, caused it to value labor, move to capital-intensive industry.

[Sig Sauer P220]

Its all starting to make sense now.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

WE ARE BROKE, ASK SOMEOME ELSE!

[dfwgator]

We gave at the office.

[Jonny foreigner]

Best thing that ever happened to Europe was the black death..

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you are joking arn´t you? the black death killed 1/3 of the population of Europe. you want that 1/3 of all people of this world have to die?????? (btw. you would have a good chance that it would hit you too because 1/3 means about 100 milion americans.)

[stevecmd]

[KarlInOhio]

Do they want bundles of dollar bills, or would it be easier if we converted it to Swiss Francs and wired it directly to accounts in Zurich?

[MeanWestTexan]

Being flip, yes.

But I am absolutely serious about the economic/political effect of the black death on Europe. The black death broke the back of fuedal society and sowed the seas for both the free capitalistic society and the industrial revolution.

Ironic, huh?

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