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2005-01-17 International-UN-NGOs

UN Unveils Action Plan to Save Millions of Lives

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Posted by .com 2005-01-17 4:44:40 PM|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Eliminate third-world corruption, tribalism and Islam, and you can accomplish the same thing-- and much, much more-- quicker and easier. These countries aren't the shitholes they are because we're not doing enough for them: they're the shitholes they are because they're not willing to do what they need for themselves.

Posted by Dave D. 2005-01-17 4:59:26 PM|| 2005-01-17 4:59:26 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 United States with its $12 trillion economy would have to raise its contributions considerably.
Here you go kids, a prime example of taxation without representation. Wonder how my ancestors would have handled it.

FU Kofi

Posted by JerseyMike 2005-01-17 5:00:59 PM|| 2005-01-17 5:00:59 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 JM-The Organization for the Redistribution of Wealth. The new UN motto: "You got it? We can steal it for humanitarian use."

Posted by Jules 187 2005-01-17 5:05:04 PM|| 2005-01-17 5:05:04 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 What're you gonna call it Kofi? Kojo Industries?

Posted by tu3031 2005-01-17 5:16:15 PM|| 2005-01-17 5:16:15 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 If you want maximum effectiveness for your charity, it makes sense to eliminate the middle man.

G'bye, Kofi.

Posted by Fred 2005-01-17 5:48:56 PM|| 2005-01-17 5:48:56 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 "There is no black market for mosquito nets"

Yet.

Posted by Pappy 2005-01-17 5:50:44 PM|| 2005-01-17 5:50:44 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 The 3,000-word plan written by 265 experts...

International Bureaucratic Efficiency strikes again!

Posted by Parabellum 2005-01-17 6:33:06 PM|| 2005-01-17 6:33:06 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Although the United States is the largest donor in the world, it contributes the smallest proportion of its GNP to development aid among 22 industrial nations.

I'd love to smack the author of this article in the hopes of knocking the envy out of this person. Really.

This "proportion" blathering got old the first day it was trotted out.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2005-01-17 9:50:33 PM|| 2005-01-17 9:50:33 PM|| Front Page Top