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This time it's to keep the U.N. outta my pocket. That would make me happy.
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UN: Rich must not cut aid to poor to balance budget.
(huh?)
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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 should not balance budgets on the backs of the poor," Ban told 140 leaders at the start of a three-day summit to review progress in meeting U.N. poverty goals by 2015.
During their speeches, leaders pledged to step up efforts to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) -- agreed 10 years ago. But, as expected, they offered little in the way of new resources to help the world's poorest countries.
The United Nations agrees the world will meet the goals to halve global poverty and hunger by 2015 but is behind on other goals which cover improving child education, child mortality and maternal health; combating diseases including AIDS, and promoting gender equality and environmental sustainability.
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(U.N. guaranteed happiness, HUH?)
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Amid the high-minded talk about poverty and budgets, Bhutan's Prime Minister Jigme Thinley proposed the addition of happiness as the ninth MDG goal.
"Since happiness is the ultimate desire of every citizen it must be the purpose of development to create enabling conditions for happiness," he said.
Donors demanded more work to ensure aid is not wasted on programs that do not help the poor. Anti-poverty campaigners said donors should be held accountable for the aid they have promised and failed to deliver.
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Why are we still a member of this idiocy? We have Ambassadors in every country in the world. Let's cut our losses and push these maroons into the sea near Montauk! Let the sharks and jelly fish have at them.
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Schteveo
2 comments:
As i've been saying for years, that massive piece of property in Manhattan would better serve the people, (something it was meant to do but has never done) if it were turned into a parking lot or ball field. Also, the tens-of-BILLIONS we throw into this bottomless pit of incompetent spies and thieves could be used for something very different, like benefiting the tax payers? (God forbid)
Pocket? They're all over the place. It's easier to get rid of roaches. "0" will be here tomorrow and Wednesday giving him another chance at catching me moon him. There's more firepower on the river this year, and they look a lot more trigger happy. So if you don't here from me, check the obits
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