Global Financial Crisis Could Hurt UN Program

[Matter-Eater Lad]

(UNITED NATIONS) — World leaders meeting at the U.N. General Assembly this week face a global financial crisis that threatens the United Nation's efforts to generate billions of dollars to fight poverty, especially in Africa.

 

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1843278,00.html

[Loki0012]

Oh.....yeah i hate it all hope it will end.......

 

Icelands on the verge off becoming nation banktrupt oh.that will affect the whole world market :(

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The bankers and influential people did this on purpose.

[Matter-Eater Lad]

Very true.

[Pseudonym]

I absolutely hate this. Because of the huge financial crisis, no questions were asked of either US Presidential candidate on their foreign aid policies during the debates. I was one of 120,000 people who signed a petition to ask at least one question, but we were ignored due to questions about the financial crisis.

 

Now world leaders just have another excuse to ignore the people who really need our help.

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Marx predicted this would happen. People could have gone to a library and read about it and prepared for it.

[Matter-Eater Lad]

And communism is any better?

[Saffire]

Marx predicted this would happen. People could have gone to a library and read about it and prepared for it.

 

Marx thought value comes from labor. He was virtually an ape.

[Black Rose]

Oh.....yeah i hate it all hope it will end.......

 

Icelands on the verge off becoming nation banktrupt oh.that will affect the whole world market :(

 

Not Iceland :shocked2:

 

Where am I supposed to do my shopping now?

[Matter-Eater Lad]

Iceland is screwed, I'm sorry to say. It's back to fishing for them.

[Black Rose]

Yep, Mr Brown has kinda stolen all their assets to pay back the billions of British money tied up in Icesave.

[Matter-Eater Lad]

Britain and Iceland will fight a fishing war in the next few years.

[Black Rose]

We have a fishing industry left?

[chuck kottke]

Some say we should just let the markets sort it all out - but good god, that's a pretty rough way to solve a problem! We simply have got to get corruption out of government, so those who are our representatives in any station look after everyone's best interest, and have cool heads.. I'm all for markets, but within a framework of civil society.

Marx wasn't wrong totally - Labor is essentially where the real work gets done. But every part of the system has a role to play that improves the final result - from stable families, education, applied technology, design and re-design of systems, integrating those systems into society with respect to human health and the broad environment. Competition, tempered with Cooperation. Our collective effort gets things done, and there's a wider place for sharing and caring than for self-interested motivators in society, but that largely goes unnoticed.

[Matter-Eater Lad]

We have a fishing industry left?

 

I have no clue. I was joking.

[Matter-Eater Lad]

Some say we should just let the markets sort it all out - but good god, that's a pretty rough way to solve a problem! We simply have got to get corruption out of government, so those who are our representatives in any station look after everyone's best interest, and have cool heads.. I'm all for markets, but within a framework of civil society.

Marx wasn't wrong totally - Labor is essentially where the real work gets done. But every part of the system has a role to play that improves the final result - from stable families, education, applied technology, design and re-design of systems, integrating those systems into society with respect to human health and the broad environment. Competition, tempered with Cooperation. Our collective effort gets things done, and there's a wider place for sharing and caring than for self-interested motivators in society, but that largely goes unnoticed.

 

Or we could have the people who created it try to fix it? Sounds even more rough. If it even works...which is unlikely. So rough fix or possibility of no fix? Both choices suck, but one will work the other if it does work will be even more rough.

 

We cannot rely on those who caused this to fix it. You don't have the person who shot the guy, do surgery on him to save his life. You go to a doctor and have him save the life.