The Mystery of Poverty and Famine in the Third World
Incidently, there was a stand up comedian who originally did a joke like this. Anyone know his name? Its bugging the life out of me.
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Incidently, there was a stand up comedian who originally did a joke like this. Anyone know his name? Its bugging the life out of me.
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don't let the conservatives see that
they'll have you gagged
Jeffrey Sachs, a prominent US economist and a special adviser to the UN secretary general, argues in a new book that extreme poverty could be eradicated by 2025.
In The End of Poverty, he says much will depend on the choices made by Americans, who are paying a far smaller share of their income in foreign aid than they promised three years ago, and only a 30th of the "nearly $500bn [£260bn] the US will spend this year on the military".
click here for a bit of the book
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Jeffrey Sachs, a prominent US economist and a special adviser to the UN secretary general, argues in a new book that extreme poverty could be eradicated by 2025.
In The End of Poverty, he says much will depend on the choices made by Americans, who are paying a far smaller share of their income in foreign aid than they promised three years ago, and only a 30th of the "nearly $500bn [£260bn] the US will spend this year on the military".
click here for a bit of the book
Of course it could be eradicated.
There's enough food, clean water, medicines, housing materials and general stuff to sort out everyone on the planet.
We just don't.
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Tue 3 May 2005, 13:48,
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We just don't.
'lo Prof!
*man-hugs*
Thanks for the lesson but it harks back to a previous post . . .
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Tue 3 May 2005, 13:55,
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Thanks for the lesson but it harks back to a previous post . . .
:)
yeah - me too. I was just hoping to rub you up the wrong way then I might get to rub you down...
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Tue 3 May 2005, 13:56,
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I find that fairly repellant to be honest,
Still, each to his own.
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