[B][SIZE=3][COLOR=blue] "The United States, at the president's direction, will be a leading partner in one of the most significant relief, rescue and recovery challenges that the world has ever known," said White House deputy press secretary Trent Duffy.
But U.N. Undersecretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Jan Egeland suggested that the United States and other Western nations were being "stingy" with relief funds, saying there would be more available if taxes were raised.
Get them out now!
But how will we ever reach the pinnacle of world socialism if we withdrawal from the UN?
It's funny that a lot of other countries don't seem to like us but when there's an issue they turn to the USA for help.
I refer you to the lyrics of a song written some years ago.
Artist: Byron MacGregor
Song Lyrics: Americans
The United States dollar took another pounding
on German, French and British exchanges this morning
hitting the lowest point ever known in West Germany. It
has declined there by forty-one percent since 1971 and
this Canadian thinks its time to speak up for the
Americans as the most generous and possibly the
least appreciated people in all the earth.
As long as sixty years ago when I first started to read
newspapers, I read of floods on the Yellow River and
the Yangtse. Who rushed in with men and money to
help? The Americans did.
They have helped control floods on the Nile, the
Amazon, the Ganges and the *****. Today the rich
bottom land of the Mississippi is under water and no
foreign land has sent a dollar to help. Germany, Japan
and to a lesser extent Britain and Italy were lifted out of
the debris of war by the Americans who poured in
billions of dollars and forgave other billions in debts.
None of those countries is today paying even the
interest on its remaining debts to the United States.
When the Franc was in danger of collapsing in 1956, it
was the Americans who propped it up and the reward
was to be insulted and swindled on the streets of Paris.
I was there. I saw it.
When distant cities are hit by earthquakes, it is the
United States that hurries in to help. Managua
Nicaragua is one of the most recent examples. So far
this spring, fifty-nine American communities have been
flattened by tornadoes. Nobody has helped. The
Marshall Plan, the Truman Policy all pumped billions
upon billions of dollars into discouraged countries. Now
newspapers in those countries are writing about the
decadent war mongering Americans. Id like to just see
one of those countries that is gloating over the erosion
of the United States Dollar build its own airplanes.
Come on, lets hear it. Does any other country in the
world have a plane to equal the Boeing jumbo jet, the
Lockheed Tri-star or the Douglas-10. If so, why don’t
they fly them? Why do all international lines, except
Russia, fly American planes?
Why does no other land on earth even consider putting
a man or a woman on the moon? You talk about
Japanese technocracy and you get radios. You talk
about German technocracy and you get automobiles.
You talk about American technocracy and you will find
men on the moon. Not once but several times and
safely home again.
You talk about scandals and the Americans put theirs
right in the store window for everybody to look at. Even
the draft dodgers are not pursued and hounded. They
are here on our streets, most of them, unless they are
breaking Canadian laws, are getting American Dollars
from Ma and Pa at home to spend here.
When the Americans get out of this bind, as they will,
who could blame them if they said the hell with the rest
of the world. Let someone else buy the Israel bonds.
Let someone else build or repair foreign dams or design
foreign buildings that wont shake apart in earthquakes.
When the railways of France, Germany and India were
breaking down through age, it was the Americans who
rebuilt them. When the Pennsylvania Railroad and the
New York Central went broke, nobody loaned them an
old caboose. Both are still broke. I can name you five
thousand times when the Americans raced to the help
of other people in trouble. Can you name me even one
time when some one else raced to the Americans in
trouble. I dont think there was outside help even during
the San Francisco earthquake. Our neighbors have
faced it alone and Im one Canadian whos damned tired of hearing them kicked around.
They will come out of this thing with their flag high and
when they do they are entitled to thumb their nose at
the lands that are gloating over their present troubles. I
hope Canada is not one of these but there are many
smug self-righteous Canadians.
And finally, the American Red Cross was told at its
forty-eighth annual meeting in New Orleans that it was
broke. This years disasters have taken it all and
nobody but nobody has helped.
Let me articulate this for you:
"I'm not locked in here with them. They're locked in here with me!!"
HipKat's Blog
Another fine example of the UN telling the world how it needs to spend its' money.
No mention that rich and poor alike where killed in th tsunami.
Reuters - Jan. 18, 2005
Jan Egeland, the U.N. Director of Disaster Relief, said many of the world's megacities, including Tokyo, are extremely vulnerable to natural disasters and the poor were most at risk from a lack of investment and planning.
Egeland also said that last month's tsunami, while tragic, could benefit developing nations over time by alerting wealthy donor nations to the importance of spending small sums of money to save lives and property before disaster strikes.
Nor mention that while nations where sending aid he complained that it was not enough.
Iamgonefromhere - I give you credit - you have a certain style that's uniquely you.
As soon as I saw the title, of this thread I KNEW it was you that started it. Kudos to you.
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TR -
As long as this is a WNY forum, here is another idea to float: Make NYC a District like Washington is a District. I think WNY would do a whole lot better in the long run with NYC outside of NY State.
As far as getting the United Nations out of the United States, that is probably a good idea, but probably not doable. I think a better statement would be to decrease financial support to a level equal with its voting power. All security council countries should pay the same. The US pays over 25% of the budget, plus services, and military. Another idea is to give some states nation status in the UN. California and Texas are certainly bigger and more prosperous than most of those countries, each of who have a vote.
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