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| Ten-point plan seeks to halve world poverty within a decade |
| 2005-01-18 |
| Hold on to your pocketbooks, the UN is trying to make itself relevant and respectable, via Lucianne: Every year, 11 million children die - most under the age of five and more than 6 million of them from preventable causes such as malaria, diarrhoea and pneumonia. In some of the most impoverished African nations, less than half of the children are in primary school, fewer still go to secondary school. Around the world, 114 million children do not receive basic formal education. In a world where more than one billion people live on less than US$1 a day, sub-Saharan Africa emerges as the worst afflicted. The continent is burdened with a unique combination of foetid poverty, declining life expectancy and falling income per head. All at a time when so much of the developing world, particularly Asia and Latin America, is enjoying economic growth.... Hey, commie-lite, SOCIALISM KILLS, FREE MARKETS FEED (thanks Protest Warrior), OPEN UP THE EU! And swing the corrupt dictators from the yard-arm. |
| Posted by:anonymous2u |
| #17 Welcoming. Heartwarming. Technical. Forbidding. Vicious. Fatal. |
| Posted by: .com 2005-01-18 9:17:42 PM |
| #16 #10 C.L. thanks for the information. The program is currently under review. I will put it on my list of "things to do" and I will write a letter and send it first class to D.C. You are correct- it is NOT the job of those who are wealthy, fortunate whatever you want to label that social class to be an anchor and to solve such a global crisis. We all need to work on this piece by piece- THE WORLDS BIGGEST PUZZLE. Andrea Jackson |
| Posted by: Andrea 2005-01-18 9:07:04 PM |
| #15 Software. It's dirty. It's a mine field. It's a war. |
| Posted by: .com 2005-01-18 9:06:03 PM |
| #14 # 12 he needs to get busy with his hyper text mark up language skill's- I.B.M. would kill for this guy ** Andrea Jackson |
| Posted by: Andrea 2005-01-18 9:00:01 PM |
| #13 If he knew PHP/MySQL he would eat better. |
| Posted by: Classical_Liberal 2005-01-18 8:58:30 PM |
| #12 |
| Posted by: .com 2005-01-18 8:53:37 PM |
| #11 You mean this 10-point plan? 1 Kenilworth, IL 2 Fairfax Station, VA 3 Great Falls, VA 4 Danville, CA 5 Atherton, CA 6 Short Hills, NJ 7 Purchase, NY 8 Portola Valley, CA 9 Bedford, NY 10 Overland Park, KS http://money.cnn.com/pf/features/lists/high_income_zips/ |
| Posted by: jules 2 2005-01-18 8:50:10 PM |
| #10 Andrea: By "property rights" I mean the shared understanding that we need to keep our hands off each other's stuff. Societies that have that basic understanding are good at producing wealth and don't need ten point programs funded by taking stuff away from better off folks. "Stamping Out Homelessness" with postage stamps sounds catchy. Head over to Photo Stamps and put together your own design. .com can help you with a suitable photo. |
| Posted by: Classical_Liberal 2005-01-18 8:20:12 PM |
| #9 # 5 .com sounds like one heck of a plan. Do you think that by allowing the government to have a significant role in the implimentation of this plan would ever reach it's goal? I hope to be around in 2015 (I'll be 50) Time will tell. I think we need to work as individual's which would form a group to begin to solve such a dilemma. Yes education is empowerment. It is a good plan, however, time will tell ** LOL Andrea Jackson |
| Posted by: Andrea 2005-01-18 7:57:47 PM |
| #8 # 3 do you mean ownership of property? I.e. a home or rental? Are you thinking about homeless population? I have a plan for that social crisis. I think the United States government should create a postage stamp (stamp out poverty /homelessness) to raise the funding however, I really don't think our government cares about the homeless (a guesstimate amount of that population)is entered on the U.S. census). I have another hypothesis on how to assist with homeless population. (I'm keeping it a Chinese ancient secret). I know that I can put a significant dent in the homeless population by the 1 point plan I will embark on in the next few year's ** Andrea Jackson |
| Posted by: Andrea 2005-01-18 7:52:05 PM |
| #7 # 5 .com sounds like one heck of a plan. Do you think that by allowing the government to have a significant role in the implimentation of this plan would ever reach it's goal? I hope to be around in 2015 (I'll be 50) Time will tell. I think we need to work as individual's which would form a group to begin to solve such a dilemma. Yes education is empowerment. It is a good plan, however, time will tell ** LOL Andrea Jackson |
| Posted by: Andrea 2005-01-18 7:44:06 PM |
| #6 "In a world where more than one billion people live on less than US$1 a day, sub-Saharan Africa emerges as the worst afflicted. The continent is burdened with a unique combination of foetid poverty, declining life expectancy and falling income per head." Give them into the care of the UN, and they'll do just as well as the UN's poster foster children --- the Palestinians. |
| Posted by: gromgorru 2005-01-18 1:04:44 PM |
| #5 Classic OPM (Other People's Money) approach to poverty. The most interesting aspect is how they have become sohpisticated anough to mix in tidbits of truth and "Quick Win" (as the article puts it) ideas - which they hope will whitewash this monstrosity. So you'll get a few nice moments where common sense can be applied - dragging the massive baggage of the real program - international socialism supported by taxes on successful democracies. Lol! Why not just do the Quick Wins. Then tell the retards that there's more where that came from as soon as you get rid of the thugs and corruption and institutional religion. Oh, and that Shari'a Law shit? Not in this century, pal. The UN? Lol. DEAD. |
| Posted by: .com 2005-01-18 8:34:23 AM |
| #4 makes me nervous. most of these 11 million live in muslim countries. and those folks are notorious for literally biting the hand that feeds them. |
| Posted by: PlanetDan 2005-01-18 8:23:52 AM |
| #3 Odd, there was no mention of better property rights in the ten point plan... |
| Posted by: Classical_Liberal 2005-01-18 1:02:31 AM |
| #2 And if you look at Lucianne, if I counted correctly, 3! articles on this topic. |
| Posted by: anonymous2u 2005-01-18 12:46:22 AM |
| #1 After the US came up big on SE Asia Aid, the UN is imposing the guilt complex on the world. For some reason, thought, the zillion page report only shows US government contributions while being critical of how little the US contributes to world aid. Didn't President Bush correct these idiots before? Explaining to them that private and corporate contibutions are additive and substantial? Do these UN pinheads ever get it? |
| Posted by: Captain America 2005-01-18 12:28:40 AM |