Butler accuses US of stifling poverty reduction

[velvet]

Brief but disturbing item I just read on an Australian news site - so brief I've quoted it in full ...


The former Australian ambassador to the United Nations, Richard Butler, says the United States is deliberately trying to stymie the elimination of global poverty. World leaders will meet in New York in a week's time to review progress towards the Millennium Development Goals which aim to free the world of extreme poverty. But the US has proposed 750 amendments to the draft declarations on the goals.

Mr Butler, who chaired a world leaders summit on poverty at the UN 10 years ago, says American intentions are clear. "The terrorist who tried to bring that declaration down was actually then the Government of Syria," Mr Butler said. "Ten years later, the terrorist trying to bring the declaration down is the Government of the United States."


http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200509/s1455424.htm

[shadowknows69]

1. Our leader responds with

What dya mean stifleing the elimination of poverty. why we just "liberated" a bunch of folks in NO from poverty.

[DBoon]

2. Our corporate masters find poverty very beneficial

poverty = more desparate people to work in sweatshops = more cheap junk to import and sell at Walmart