Brown takes 'Marshall Plan' to US

BBC online ^ | Dec. 17, 2001

[RippleFire]

Good news for Mercedes dealers in the Third World.

And for some reason the obligatory picture of the poor child has the alternate text of 'Street Child in Canada". Hold your cursor over it to see it.

[toenail]

Dear Gordon Brown,

Quit playing Santa Claus on our nickel. Go away.

Love,
U.S. Taxpayers

[JD86]

What's the boy been smokin'? It seems I remember those developin' countries are also the ones who practice child slavery...and voted the US off the human rights committees. My suggestion.....let them fend for themselves. I'm certain all those peaceful Muslim countries will be glad to take up the slack.

[John Locke]

Mr Brown has backed a plan by former Mexican president Ernesto Zedillo to increase aid by $50bn (£35bn) a year.

OK, that's $1 billion for Mr Zedillo. Any info on the names of the other 49 corrupt third-world presidents who will rake in the rest of the loot?

[keithtoo]

Money down a rathole, but at least these self-serving ministers will get a few toasts thrown their way at cocktail parties!

The blind leading the stupid!

[stripes1776]

More googooism from the political left. Let's reward the thrid-world dictatorships for their failed policies. Let's rip off hardworking Americans with a commie-style transfer payment.

[RippleFire]

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[Fred Mertz]

Uncle Bill,

You might find a few timeless quotes here. Better to laugh than cry.

[horsewhispersc]

I hid mine! ;-)

[Cold Heat]

They won't get the rust off my zipper!

[Cold Heat]

Thanks for the ping ratcat. I expect some more major U.N. failures in the near future. I also expect them to continue to cherry pick their projects. I wonder how much money they would save if New York kicked them out of their nest.

[yankeedame]

"Campaigners have pressed the UK to cancel Third World debt"

Thomas Sowell once said: "Cancelling a foreign debt is like giving a drunk a liver transplant and then giving him an open tab at a bar".

[B4Ranch]

Don't you just love it when other countries tell us what to do with our money? Especially during a recession?

[zog]

-HAHAHAHAHAHA! This is SO funny, pick any third or second world nation, you see the money there that COULD be used for their nation as a whole,but it's controlled by 1% at the top, FOR those 1% at the top, who will continue to control it at the point of a gun, no matter how much 'debt" is erased or how much "aid" they receive from anyplace else..

[ChaseR]

Thanks for the ping. BTTT

[MHGinTN]

For some reason the foolishness of Brown reminds me of the lesson to be found in the fish analogy: give a man a fish and eats for a day; teach him to fish and he can feed himself right on along. Will our aid feed fishes to them only? Or, will we teach them to fish and can it so we can buy it from them? Put another way: the South Koreans make a pretty darn good car; they used American technology and Japanese ingenuity to arrive at the point where the socialist North Koreans covet their fishes, or something like that.

[Snow Bunny]

#15......It makes me furious !!!!!!

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[B4Ranch]

Marshall was on the cover of Time magazine in September of 1947. Oh, what a hero with Americans money.