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Rush Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 3131 Credit: 302,569 RAC: 0 |
I concur that the World Bank - and the IMF are corrupt to their bones. Well, duh. They exist to support deregulated, capitalistic markets. OF COURSE they wouldn't give money to anti-capitalistic countries, anymore than MoveOn.org would give money to Republicans, or you would give money to the klan. First, developing countries must embark on strategies that help them attain these goals. In the areas of poverty and social development, this implies particular attention by policymakers to: No, if the rates are high, they're high because those that are borrowing the money are bad credit risks. The countries need the capital because they are incapable of producing it on their own. * Improving the distribution of income and wealth. The benefits of growth for the poor may be eroded if the distribution of income worsens. But policies that promote better income distribution are not well understood; learning more about the impact of policies on distribution should be high on the agenda. (To learn more, read about Inequality) Hmmmm, well, Thorin, if they're "letting people starve," by withholding their resources, then you are doing the exact same thing, just on a smaller scale. If it's OK for you, it's OK for them. Second, donors and international agencies must support countries that show a determination to take up the challenges of the Millennium Development Goals. A) They don't care what you think. B) You haven't presented any argument whatsoever why decentralized markets shouldn't be used.
What are you waiting for? Why aren't you saving them? Especially the World Bank knows exactly (at least theoretically) what poverty means. Their damn duty is to do something against it, instead of just another study, and another concept and another committee whilst people starve in reality!!! Funny, these institutions are just gov't agencies, nearly incompetent, as always. And yet, you want these same fools to run our health care. Cordially, Rush elrushbo2@theobviousgmail.com Remove the obvious... |
Misfit Send message Joined: 21 Jun 01 Posts: 21804 Credit: 2,815,091 RAC: 0 |
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Misfit Send message Joined: 21 Jun 01 Posts: 21804 Credit: 2,815,091 RAC: 0 |
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Misfit Send message Joined: 21 Jun 01 Posts: 21804 Credit: 2,815,091 RAC: 0 |
Coffee, tea or handcuffs? Today's air travelers face many problems: overbookings, weather, mechanical delays and long security lines. me@rescam.org |
Darth Dogbytes™ Send message Joined: 30 Jul 03 Posts: 7512 Credit: 2,021,148 RAC: 0 |
On todays news...the Canadian Dollar is now on par with the United States Dollar in value... ...thanks to you and all your friends George, i.e. borrow and spend supply side economics boozos. Oh sure, it will be great for our exports, not that were manufacture anything near what we used to, and the cost of imports is going to go through the roof. In a few more years we'll be using dollar bills for the same purpose the Chinese did with their papaer money in 1947. Chiang Kai-shek was known as Cash-My-Cheque, while the current Chinese masters hold a huge chunk of our treasury bonds. Be afraid, very afraid. http://money.cnn.com/2007/09/20/markets/canada_dollar.ap/index.htm?postversion=2007092014 Account frozen... |
Rush Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 3131 Credit: 302,569 RAC: 0 |
On todays news...the Canadian Dollar is now on par with the United States Dollar in value... B-b-b-b-ut what about health care? You seem to want the gov't to tax and spend, you seem to like your standard of living. You asked for this, and you're asking for more. Oh, and it has nothing to do with supply side economics, the problem is taxing, borrowing, and spending, and it's mostly over-borrowing caused by over-spending. And yet you think your "boozos" should borrow and spend even more. Cordially, Rush elrushbo2@theobviousgmail.com Remove the obvious... |
Misfit Send message Joined: 21 Jun 01 Posts: 21804 Credit: 2,815,091 RAC: 0 |
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Jeffrey Send message Joined: 21 Nov 03 Posts: 4793 Credit: 26,029 RAC: 0 |
B-b-b-b-ut what about health care? Maybe you should put that in your sig... It seems to be in every post in every thread anyway... ;) It may not be 1984 but George Orwell sure did see the future . . . |
Darth Dogbytes™ Send message Joined: 30 Jul 03 Posts: 7512 Credit: 2,021,148 RAC: 0 |
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thorin belvrog Send message Joined: 29 Sep 06 Posts: 6418 Credit: 8,893 RAC: 0 |
... I think that each politician (and economists) should be held personally responsible for each of their decisions. I still hope that happens some time, some place... Account frozen... |
Rush Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 3131 Credit: 302,569 RAC: 0 |
... I think that each politician (and economists) should be held personally responsible for each of their decisions. Oh the hilarity! I mean, the humanity! Cordially, Rush elrushbo2@theobviousgmail.com Remove the obvious... |
KWSN - MajorKong Send message Joined: 5 Jan 00 Posts: 2892 Credit: 1,499,890 RAC: 0 |
... I think that each politician (and economists) should be held personally responsible for each of their decisions. Then surely your Holy Trinity of Marx, Lenin, and Stalin are roasting in H**l right about now... All the untold amounts of death and suffering that their economic theories and political decisions have caused over the years... |
thorin belvrog Send message Joined: 29 Sep 06 Posts: 6418 Credit: 8,893 RAC: 0 |
... I think that each politician (and economists) should be held personally responsible for each of their decisions. Stalin for sure, and also all those who abused the ideas of humanity for their agenda of gaining power and more power. Marx was "only" a philosopher, who said about his own ideas that they remain to be challenged. And Lenin just misunderstood the revolution thing others before him taught about. People like Bakunin and Berkman sure taught about a needed revolution, but they meant a revolution in the human minds, not a bloody revolution with weapons. Account frozen... |
thorin belvrog Send message Joined: 29 Sep 06 Posts: 6418 Credit: 8,893 RAC: 0 |
Unfortunately it's a bit long, but I think it's a good story to think about, like most fables: The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant by Nick Bostrom Account frozen... |
Misfit Send message Joined: 21 Jun 01 Posts: 21804 Credit: 2,815,091 RAC: 0 |
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Darth Dogbytes™ Send message Joined: 30 Jul 03 Posts: 7512 Credit: 2,021,148 RAC: 0 |
...and then there's our clown! Account frozen... |
Misfit Send message Joined: 21 Jun 01 Posts: 21804 Credit: 2,815,091 RAC: 0 |
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Qui-Gon Send message Joined: 15 May 99 Posts: 2940 Credit: 19,199,902 RAC: 11 |
Time for a new thread (this one was getting stretched anyway). |
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