Posted on 11/09/2021 11:15:35 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
UNITED NATIONS — Mexico’s president warned Tuesday that the world is sliding from “civilization to barbarity” and called for the thousand richest people, the thousand largest private corporations and the 20 major economies to improve life for the 750 million people now existing on less than $2 dollars a day.
Andrés Manuel López Obrador told the U.N. Security Council that this proposal could generate around $1 billion annually, which should go directly to the world’s poorest people “without any intermediaries, through a card or personalized electronic wallet.”
He said the proposal can be financed with money from three sources: an annual voluntary contribution of 4% of the income of the world’s 1,000 richest people, a similar 4% contribution from the 1,000 largest private corporations according to their market value, and 0.2% of the GDP of nations in the Group of 20 largest global economies.
López Obrador accused the United Nations, with U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres listening, of failing to help those at the bottom of economic ladder, saying: “Nothing really substantial has been done to benefit the poor in the history of this organization.”
“But it is never too late to ensure that justice is done,” he said.
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....sliding from “civilization to barbarity”......
That is certainly true in Mexico as the cartels take over more and more of that country. And Biden’s America is right behind them.
First they have to get rid of their dictators with the sold gold toilets.
with U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres listening...saying: “Nothing really substantial has been done to benefit the poor in the history of this organization.”
Same applies to the gov't of Mexico, and any of Mexico's political parties.
“Nothing really substantial has been done to benefit the poor in the history of this organization.”
It will never be enough for the parasites.
Thomas Sowell bump.
Add to the list:
Carlos Slim Helu - $78 billion...
https://www.forbes.com/profile/carlos-slim-helu/?sh=38515227646b
fluctuates, but for a while, Carlos Slim was number 1 or 2 on any given day...then the US “tech” billionaires outran him.
How is it that one of the poorest countries on the planet features one of the richest men?
why???
Callate la boca puto. Mexico is the richest country in Latin America.
Feed the worlds poor yourself.
As an American and a tax payer I’m sick of being the worlds ATM.
I used to have 3 words I hated:
Broke
LOST
KEY-Holed ( I drive a 1 ton truck with a 4 horse trailer
I have added another word I hate even MORE:
ENTITLED !!!!!!1
Almost every country has fine building stone suitable for stone houses.
NOT my monkeys
NOT my circus.
We already do. Can we just get a THANK YOU?
NOW GFO!
Those aren’t Mexicans. They are privileged old family Spainards.
“improve life for the 750 million people now existing on less than $2 dollars a day”
So to even give them all $1 a day more, for 365 days a year, would cost nearly 274 billion dollars a year.
Where exactly does El Presidente think we can magic up the trillions and trillions it would take to actually raise them out of poverty?
The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.
Margaret Thatcher
Do you know that one of the great problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas.
Margaret Thatcher
I think we’ve been through a period where too many people have been given to understand that if they have a problem, it’s the government’s job to cope with it. ‘I have a problem, I’ll get a grant.’ ‘I’m homeless, the government must house me.’ They’re casting their problem on society. And, you know, there is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first. It’s our duty to look after ourselves and then, also to look after our neighbour. People have got the entitlements too much in mind, without the obligations. There’s no such thing as entitlement, unless someone has first met an obligation.
Margaret Thatcher
Even if you confiscated every dollar from every one of them, it wouldn’t make a significant difference when distributed to 750 million people.
But then again, math is racist.
Isn’t he one of the rich Mexican leaders and who is he helping?
True “leaders” don’t play victim and whine for handouts.
Why?
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