Bush has been impoverishing more and more Americans since he took (as in stole) office in late 2000.
So, why should we expect his sham hit-man at the UN to do anything but attempt to wreck the Millennium Development Goals.
Poverty rate nears 13%; fourth annual increase Associated Press
August 30, 2005
WASHINGTON — The nation's poverty rate rose to 12.7 percent of the population last year, pb
Overall, there were 37 million people living in poverty, up 1.1 million people from 2003.
The last decline in overall poverty was in 2000, when 31.1 million people lived under the threshold — 11.3 percent of the population.
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http://www.startribune.com/stories/484/5586657.html From the West Coast we the LA Times informing its readers of Bolton's outrageous behavior.
Bolton's mischiefAugust 30, 2005
AFTER A YEAR AND A HALF of studies and negotiations, the United Nations recently came up with a draft proposal calling for extensive internal reforms and world action against injustice, poverty and environmental catastrophe. Last week,
soon after being appointed U.N. ambassador by President Bush, John Bolton may have sabotaged the entire effort.
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The original proposal spelled out internal U.N. reforms, such as creation of a new human rights panel that would exclude rights violators, as well as pledges of increased foreign aid, measures to combat climate change and calls for nuclear disarmament.
Bolton's amendments focus on cutting references to international efforts the U.S. has opposed, such as the International Criminal Court, while strengthening sections on spreading democracy, freeing markets and fighting terrorism.
His most odious change was to delete all references to the Millennium Development Goals, which commit industrialized nations to cutting world poverty in half by 2015. Part of the deal was that rich countries would eventually contribute 0.7% of their gross national product to foreign aid.
The goals were a world-changing burst of optimism from international leaders in 2000, a recognition that all people have the right to be free from misery, starvation and preventable disease and that those able to pay have some responsibility to alleviate needless suffering.
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http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-ed-bolton30aug30,0,3118415,print.story?coll=la-home-oped And, bookending the country on the East Coast we have the NYTimes editorial board managing to take a break from their disgusting service to propagandist-in-chief Miller to cover Bolton's egregious actions.
That's No Way to Treat VisitorsAugust 30, 2005
Two weeks before world leaders are due in New York to talk about global poverty and United Nations reform, the United States is trying to renege on commitments to fight poverty. If this wasn't so gut-wrenchingly important to the one billion people in Africa, Latin America and Asia who subsist on barely anything, the United States' proposal, presented last week by America's new United Nations ambassador, John Bolton, would be almost funny.
On Sept. 14, the leaders of more than 170 countries are to show up to sign an agreement, under negotiation for six months, to bolster the United Nations Millennium Declaration, which was drafted with great fanfare in 2000. Chief among the Millennium Declaration's goals was for developed countries, like the United States, Britain and France, to work toward giving 0.7 percent of their national incomes for development aid to poor countries by 2015.
Alas, if the American proposal is to be taken seriously, President Bush has had a change of heart. The draft document that Mr. Bolton shared with other diplomats
calls for striking almost all mentions of the Millennium Development Goals, which also call for poor countries to adopt good governance.
American officials at the United Nations also complain that the section on poverty is too long. And the United States wants to erase parts of the text that would ask countries to "achieve the target of 0.7 percent of gross national product for official development assistance by no later than 2015."
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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/30/opinion/30tue3.html?pagewanted=print Well, the one trait Bush and his fellow war criminal neoconsters share is their consistency -- consistent in their avarice, consistent in their total disregard for humanity, consistent in their willingness to murder and torture to make another buck stealing resources. And, they are most remarkably consistent in doing it all in the name of their 'christian god.'
Peace.
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