Mandela calls for action on poverty on his 90th birthday (Roundup)
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By Clare Byrne Jul 18, 2008, 13:46 GMT
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stopping poverty?....well lets see, stop coruption and allow proper democratic and free press to prosper, that will help in reducing poverty.
Even in the West we have levels of poverty. Everytime some goverment or agency or group wants to timetable getting rid of poverty they achieve zip. They self grandize their ideals with spending money on the problem but not solving the problem. if i was a politicion the only thing i would say to the people would be 'I wont solve any of your problems, but it wont cost you a lot of money, my opponent wont solve any of your problems, but it will cost you a lot of money'
sp4 hates this guy as much as he hates obama and all colored people.
he just proved it.
Well SP4 ;I didn't know Mandela has been helping Bush at all,can you clarify ?I suppose you are honest when you show your indignation about corruption,to include the most corrupt leader of all of course .The very one that started a war to enable an militar industrial establishent, that became obsolete after the collapse of the Soviet Union ,to find anew boost and profir,roducing more unnecesary weapons than ever .The same one that solod the future of your county to the oil tycoons.Remember him saying that curbing climate change and looking for non carbon emitting energy sources was a burden on your economy ,global warming was a non issue .The same leader that refused to regulate your financial markets because the banks and insurance companies opposed it,busyas they were making enomous profits with the ninja-loans .We are talking about the same leader that puts the profits of the insurance busines wzll before the interests of your elderly and diseased .I just hope you agree that such corrupt leader should not be supported by Mandela .But frankly,I didn't know Mandela supported ANY corrupt leaders.What are your sources on this?FOX,limbaugh?RoBertson?All clarifications are welcome of course,you have us all worried here...suddenly.
Barack Obama's 300 Spartans (Advisors)?
It seems that you claim to be truthful and advocate CHANGE, and yet you enlist 300 soldiers, (advisors) to give advice on 'as the world turns', is quite alarming. If you sir, need 300 paid advisors to help you make a decision then you have not done your homework. You have managed to create your own independent congress of people that are burning thru your $5.00 internet donations like sand thru an hour glass. It alarms me that if THEY decide to place you in that office, your staff would double?
If your 300 were like the Spartans and lead by a leader like King Leonidas , of which you are not, then your 300 advisors are justified.
But in this case they are not.
You wish to be the President of the United States of America, and yet you still lie, you hire an outrageous staff of succubus's that have their own interests, you do not attend to the poor, you are too concerned with keywords and false policy that fool those that really want CHANGE, you cannot stroll thru an American neighborhood unless you have your SS officers with you, not allowing Americans to protect you, you are so concerned that you will say the wrong thing, because you are not allowed to speak your own words, you have taken from the American people their hard earned $5.00 and given them nothing in return, you have no idea how big and deep the rabbit hole is that you have started to go down. The 300 Spartans defended their freedom and their Homeland, and you sir, are defending those that wish to rape the land and enslave Americans like Xeres attempted to do.
You are making policy on the run, without regard to the outcome, and we Americans will suffer for your mistakes and blunders.
These next four years will be yours, but the next four years after that will be for the American People.
CHANGE FOR AMERICA FOR AMERICANS!
The American Republic
A Sovereign Republic
Well, Tonny, I'm sure that rambling diatribe got your shorts messy, but it really has nothing to do with the article above, and ends just like your one-handed opera:
Limp.
The article is about that Propagandist and Marxist Mandala. Mandela. Like the other African notables, he benefits from the rampant corruption that keeps Africans poor. Like his buddie Kofi Annan, he lives this as a way of life.
The story is always the same: The west hands out money to help and it ends up in the hands of these leaders and their clans. This is how a Mugabe stays in power i.e. his clan keeps the others down and the money keeps it all working. The west enables this opera to keep going, year after year.
So, after being lauded for his achievements, he sits and watches his own enslave their own and is, once again, lauded for it, instead of being held to task. And the west is all too happy to help, giving peace prizes to disingenuous politicians like the gand posers like Gore instead of real freedom fighters in Zimbabwe or Myanmar.
Now I realize it's a lot easier and more pleasureable for you to handle yourself over Bush or other things in America that, for whatever reason, and keep that pathetic knob of yours pointing up, but try, for once to let go of it and stay on track.
Since you brought it up though, Bush's gambit in Iraq is so successful, the government there is asking him to make up a withdrawl timeline. God, would I love to see him give them everything they want! Republican healthcare in Massechutsetts is now so successful Tonny, they estimate 100% coverage in the next 24 months! The system, modeled after the Swiss and Holland models, will have total coverage for the state. Since the citizen owns it, employment does not affect coverage! Like the Swiss, it incorporates the best of private care and promotes competition to hold costs down!
By the way, go check the insured ratio of New York (Hillary) and Illinois (Obama) and see how THEY are doing!
God, I just love America! Keep 'pounding' those problems Tonny! Oh, and you will not go blind, I promise!
Nice to hear that you finally embraced universal healh care SP4 ,you make progress.
Yhat is about the first amendment you make .By the way ,since when is Mandela corrupt ?It doesn't fir the idea I have about this kind person,that I would rather compare to Gandhi than to Bush...
What I do believe is in universal health INSURANCE. We already have unversal health care in America. Just visit any federally funded emergency room and see. Hopefully, we can get the socialists out of the system, like they have in Mass. After all, they just kill too many folks.
Nonetheless, it has zero to do with these corrupt African despots and their enablers. Mugabe is just another one who is putting the final touches on a stellar career by African standards, measured by all the indicators, poverty, death, bigotry, tribal hatreds and, of course, the biggest one, corruption. Perhaps it's time for tough love in Africa.
well its about coruption in all sectors of the African mindset. As for Health care...in canada our public system has become more and more expensive (the pension sceme for all goverment workers are going to exceed the actual employed payroll of working goverment workers) a dual system would work best...allowing private clinics, as long as they dont get public funds is fine, but disalowing them cause they are private is wrong.
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SP4: Poverty???Jul 18th, 2008 - 15:57:34
...try to stop enabling these corrupt African leaders you've been helping for the last 25 years.
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