Posted on 02/28/2002 11:24:31 AM PST by Pokey78
Former US president Bill Clinton today vowed to dedicate the rest of his life to helping redistribute the world's wealth.
At his fourth Australian speaking engagement, Mr Clinton said prosperous nations including Australia and the United States held the key to the world's future.
He said it would cost America $US2.5 billion ($A4.87 billion) to meet UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan's request for an extra $US10 billion ($A19.47 billion) to fight AIDS and other infections diseases.
"For us, you know what that is?" he asked the $1,100-a-head charity dinner in Melbourne for the Microsurgery Foundation.
"Two-and-a-half months of the Afghan war, and about one tenth of one per cent of the federal budget.
"That's it.
"There are 40 million AIDS cases a day and if we don't do something about it, there will be 100 million AIDS cases a day."
Mr Clinton said Australians needed to identify with people of poorer nations.
"If we can, then our children will have the most peaceful and prosperous and the most interesting and fun time in all of human history," he said.
"I'm going to do what I can for the rest of my life to make that happen, and I hope you will too.
The 42nd president of the United States said Australians should not be afraid of change, or of people who were different.
Such fears had resulted in the assassinations of Ghandi, Martin Luther King, Israeli President Yitzak Rabin and the September 11 terrorist attacks.
"We are struggling to find a balance in our two countries to not just tolerate people who are different, but actually venerate those differences, respect them, celebrate them, in the context of our common humanity," he said.
In a direct reference to the Howard government's woes, Mr Clinton also warned Australia needed to pull its weight in addressing global warming or the refugee crisis would get worse.
"If the world warms in the next 50 years as it has done in the last 10, ...agricultural production will be disrupted across the globe," he said.
"You'll have literally millions upon millions of food refugees, leading to more violence, more disruption and more boatloads of refugees that you will have to face."
From DIMS to him - he doesn't give those speeches for free.
Like his role model in Germany 70 years ago, Clinton continues to make preposterous ex cathedra pronouncements, and expects people to accept them as a matter of faith. Obviously, there is no correlation between letting Clinton redirect our patterns of personal identification and having fun and prosperity.
The man is not, however, making a new commitment. His whole Presidency tended towards the promotion of an undifferentiated humanity. He is the type of Fabian Socialist who saw the Cold War as a battle between contending Socialists, as to whom would be the first to install their brand of Socialist World Government, etc., on the rest. He is not a new phenomenon, what he is saying was the Dean Rusk foreign policy, under Kennedy and Johnson. It has not improved in the interim.
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Why the hell do we need to venerate people who are different? Isn't this just racism? What happened to respecting people for their minds/achievments? Now I'm supposed to venerate someone because their skin is a different color?
I'd say Clinton was insane if so many liberals didn't think the exact same way.
Every time I read something like this, I say to myself, "How in the hell did he become President?!?"
You wonder how he became President..........This statement regarding the redistribution of the world's wealth tells me he is PLANNING TO BECOME SECRETARY OF THE UN..........his 'dedicating his life to redistributing the world's wealth' will certainly fall under his jurisdiction AND THEN LOOK OUT!! By then Hillary will be PRESIDENT.......and he will change his title to SAVIOR OF THE WORLD.......aaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrgggggggg!!! and I don't profess to being a prophet.........by any means.
The history of tracking the donations through the IMF, etc. to poor nations proves that more nations get poorer with aid over the years than not. Clinton had access to these figures. Looks like he'd rather stick to the old lies and "appear" compassionate while actually promoting proven harmful and damaging policies. He isn't mature enough to drive.
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If you just go away, Billy...maybe....just maybe.... America and the rest of the thinking world will not revile you.
Please, Mr. Clinton, go away and leave the leadership of America and her values to souls of character and conviction.....
In the simplest of terms, Bill Clinton, -----please, go away.
We are so much better off without you....Let us be.
If everybody behaved like Clinton, the whole world would have AIDS (as well as all sorts of other STDs) by now.
Do you think he'd hesitate to renounce his citizenship if that's what it took to get himself a new spot in the limelight?
Of course he continues to be the same odious and diseased psychopath he always was, but I wouldn't worry too much about this latest brainfart. He probably forgot about it a moment after he said it.
It is true that in general he is a vicious Stalinist, but the fact is, he will "dedicate " his life to something besides himself the same day OJ actually dedicates his life to finding the murderer of Nicole.
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