Third World officials skimmed $100 Billion form World Bank

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[BlackJack]

Poverty in the third world is mainly due to incompetence and corruption in the governments of third world countries.

[Pukka Puck]

Shoot, if the guy had a fast internet connection, it sounds like the ideal job.

[Diogenesis]

WILL THERE BE ACCOUNTABILITY? ..........................

No.

[jd777]

Rep. Steve Israel, D-N.Y., a member of the House Financial Services Committee, tells Insight: "The multilateral development banks are critical instruments for reducing poverty around the world and making life better for billions of people.

That is an outrageous lie. Can we have our money back, Steve?

[angkor]

While there are significant policy issues that call World Bank funding into question, mere larceny is not one of those issues.

How do I know?

I worked there. And we caught several.

The real problem with the WB is the cast of thugs and "legitimate" enterprises snaking through the halls on a daily basis.

[caisson71]

They have made a few people rich anyway.

[f.Christian]

PULLING THE PLUG

"The United Nations is a rectal threshold through which ill-mannered guests egress, but never go home."

"Any guest that treats you as discourteously in your own home . . .

deserves to get . . . his *** kicked (( link )) - - -

all the way back to the Third World - and possibly to the Fourth."

*** . . . my addition !

[caisson71]

I know, we all know, this goes on and it makes me sick.

[TPartyType]

#1 . . . absolutely right. Most famine would be averted if food aid got to the people who need it rather than to profiteers and corrupt regimes. Sad.

[victim soul]

Food aid directly to the people not the governments and their thieves.

[2nd_Amendment_Defender]

Third World officials skimmed $100 Billion form World Bank

They call these thieves who stole a huge chunk of cash just skimming money from the bank!? So if they would have stole 200,000,000,000 would that still be skimming?

[meema]

Even food aid can't get directly to the people. On the way to distribution, it is stolen, and sold on the black market. All/most of our good intentions pave the road to hell.
As far as I can see, there is nothing much we can do about it as long as we have yokels in Congress like the above Rep. Steve Israel, D, NY.

[TPartyType]

One would like to think you could trust leaders to feed their own damn people, for crying out loud.

[Procyon]

Sounds like the job I have. The only one with a windowless office but three computers, a T1 and a color laser.

[waxhaw]

I've been overseas serving in our embassies and consulates since 1988 and I've seen firsthand the "work" of the WB, IDB and IMF. It has nothing to do with improving the lot of the poor; the poor have only become poorer. This money serves to get the ruling elite to sell their souls and their nations to the "first world"; the rulers get rich and their nation surrenders its sovereignty. Our State Dept. is active in this and the majority of our ambassadors spend a good deal of their time selling this idea. Davidow, our former ambassador in Mexico, recently told Mexico it was time this nation "applied" for a loan from the IMF. Let's see, Mexico has enviable farmland, huge deposits of copper, aluminum and silver, petroleum, fisheries and some of the most popular tourist spots in the world... and yet Davidow wants them to apply for a loan. Of course, once the loan has been taken from the IMF, Mexico is no longer a sovereign nation, but subject to external monitoring. All part of the plan for a coming one-world-government.

[B4Ranch]

the U.S. Treasury Department is the executive-branch overseer of the development banks. And in November 2000 it successfully killed recommendations to Congress proposed by the U.S. Agency for International Development that greater public disclosure of the banks' operations be mandated and a better process of external and internal review be established to prevent potentially illegal loans from being approved.

Third world country, is that what we are?

[Pukka Puck]

Lucky dog!

[B4Ranch]

Ping to #15 It doesn't look good! I know it's only our money and why should we be concerned what our politions do.

[alrea]

It's simply more government control. While there may be no conspiracy being discussed in the UN and in banking related entities, the flab butts in government just find ways to get control and then trade it with their kind. Sometimes a company can enter the picture. It's like a virus.

The solution is lower taxes. There is less to control by those that don't have a product or service. The US has got to help educate the third world people.

[TontoKowalski]

Same song, different verse:

This is exactly why I'm concerned about the $15B in AIDS relief for Africa. I'm not against AIDS relief, but I am against throwing money down a rathole.

I want to see the plan before I agree that this is worthwhile or helpful. I support the President in nearly everything, but I won't support distribution of this aide through the UN or some similar wasteful mechanism.