Councilman
DP Veteran
- Joined
- Apr 25, 2009
- Messages
- 4,454
- Reaction score
- 1,657
- Location
- Riverside, County, CA.
- Gender
- Male
- Political Leaning
- Conservative
FOXNews.com - France boosts pledge to fight world poverty, urges others to follow suit
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The 10-year-old promise to lift the world's poorest is unfulfilled and with world economies clawing back from the worst recession since World War II, the French president and others implored leaders on Monday not to return to their "old bad habits" of ignoring global poverty.
Nicolas Sarkozy, the French leader, was the first to accept U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's challenge for nations to deliver more resources to combat global poverty, ignorance and misery. He pledged to boost France's annual $10 billion contribution to the world's poorest people by 20 percent over the next three years. He urged other leaders to join him.
"We have no right to do less than what we have decided to do," Sarkozy told more than 140 presidents, premiers, princes and a king at the opening of the three-day U.N. Millennium Development Goals summit. "Let us not fall back into our old bad habits."
Sarkozy spoke as U.N. member states began their accounting of progress in the decade since promising to end global poverty. Developed nations have fallen well short in keeping pace with a final goal set for 2015. The U.N. acknowledges that even if the main target of reducing extreme poverty by half is achieved in the next five years, nearly 1 billion people still will be living on less than $1.25 a day.
France, Spain, Greece urge tax to raise poverty funding world wide. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon pressed debt-ridden donor countries on Monday not to cut aid to the poor despite their budgetary woes.
We need to be ready to fight this global attempt at redistribution through a tax we don't need.
If they want to feed the world stop Monsanto from altering seeds and pay for our farmers to teach the world how to grow what they need.
That may sound a bit Liberal but it just makes sense and is close to the old adage give a man a fish and so on.
Charity begins at home and we have problems of our own thanks to dumb ass politicians not know their back side from a hole in the ground.
We have spent Billions and all we have to show is massive debt and claims of success that are lies of the first magnitude.
France, Spain, Greece urge tax to raise poverty funding world wide. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon pressed debt-ridden donor countries on Monday not to cut aid to the poor despite their budgetary woes.
So...it's a bad idea to help fund economic development in countries prone to the growth of Islamic terrorism? Yeah, let's make it easier for terrorists to open more fronts. Great logic there Councilman. Glad to see you still hate America.
Americans are the most charitable people in the world, but redistribution of wealth is nothing but theft.
Not true.
The Most Generous Countries on Earth - NYTimes.com
The US is only nr 5 according to this index.
The results listed are misleading because the list is based on the individual giving using the total population of the Nations listed.
If you were to add to these numbers the amount given by our Government we far and away out strip most of the other Nations combined totals.
Just look what happens when an Earth Quake hits a place like Haiti we send in ships and air craft with an almost limitless relief supplies.
The same for the Flooding victims in Pakistan. So the previous post was correct. It's all in how you look at it.
Your tax dollars at work around the world.
Those who stand for nothing fall for anything
Again, you cant compare nations on absolute numbers. It does NOT show the burden said giving is having on a nation. Hence per captia is the only way and here the US is at the bottom. So the previous post is not correct, it is based on right wing propaganda that is not backed up by facts.
Again, you cant compare nations on absolute numbers. It does NOT show the burden said giving is having on a nation. Hence per captia is the only way and here the US is at the bottom. So the previous post is not correct, it is based on right wing propaganda that is not backed up by facts.
Not true.
The Most Generous Countries on Earth - NYTimes.com
The US is only nr 5 according to this index.
I see no reason the American taxpayer should be robbed to feed people in a country who hates us.
Not true.
The Most Generous Countries on Earth - NYTimes.com
The US is only nr 5 according to this index.
More of the same old same old, the futile continuance of those failed past policies.
The Chinese are more clear-eyed!
Africa
I support fighting world poverty, but not through the UN. Sending money to the UN would better be spent fueling a fire for homeless people, the warmth would do more good than funneling funds into a bloated hypocritical organization. To fight world poverty we would need to abolish governments that keep people under poverty (dictatorships, theocracies, socialist/communist nations, etc.)
We could certainly learn a lot from the Chinese approach of treating Africa as a potential market and source of cheap labor, instead of as a problem to be solved. While the West is helping Africa solve their immediate health problems, China is providing a much better model for governance. Nations have begun to realize that the Chinese are only interested in investing in countries that provide some protection of private property.
With that said, there is nothing wrong with providing aid, as long as it's getting to the people it needs to get to, and it's an effective way of spending the money. I don't think it's correct when some people (not you) say that "foreign aid to Africa hasn't worked." The results vary significantly depending on what the money is spent on, and in what countries. Even within the same countries, the results can vary a lot from one region to another. I think we'd be better off if we stop donating money to places and causes that don't work, and instead give it to those that do.
Yes, we should certainly provide aid when people are suffering but the west has poured trillions into Africa over the last 60 years and have little to show for it. And, as you say, it's usually not getting to the people who most need it.
I think we agree that foreign aid should still go to African but in a radically different format than what has gone on in the past. There has to come a time when we realize that past policies aren't working and probably never will.
You know damn well the US gives more than any other country. End of story. It's communist tendencies in Spain trying to tax the world that makes me sick. Our money is none of your damn concern.
Doo you have a problem with reading comprehension
I do not now nor will I ever back any global tax for any reason and I resent hell out of your mistaken thoughts.
If you review only a few of my posts I defy anyone to come up with a more fake Patriotic attitude than I have.
Hog wash. Since we are talking government money (noted by the "tax dollars" aspect), the US gives most in absolute terms, that is correct. About 23 billion a year in ODA.. the UK gives almost 13 billion and has what 1/4 the population? France, Germany and the UK combined give over 33 billion and that is from a population base that is about half that of the US. If we talk about the EU as a whole, there is no contest there ... EU > US by leaps and bounds in ODA.
But that is not how we compare countries is it now? No that is done in % of GDP or per captia and there the US is at the bottom of the OECD ranking. The US gives only 0.17% (2008 number) of GDP in official development aid... Spain gives over double that amount and my home country gives over 4 times that amount.
So by all means.. be "proud" of your 23 billion a year you give out of an economy of 300 million people...I would not.. Then again I am proud that my small nation of 5 million people give about 2.5 billion dollars each year in ODA.. at least I have something to have it in as they say.
Not true.
The Most Generous Countries on Earth - NYTimes.com
The US is only nr 5 according to this index.
1. Australia
1. New Zealand
3. Ireland
3. Canada
5. Switzerland
5. United States
7. Netherlands
8. Britain
8. Sri Lanka
10 Austria
We use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:
Do you accept cookies and these technologies?
We use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:
Do you accept cookies and these technologies?