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    PER UN: US must show more leadership on poverty

    US must show more leadership on poverty: Wolfensohn By Lesley Wroughton
    Thu Jun 15, 7:44 PM ET



    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States needs to show greater moral and economic leadership if it wants to be an influence in the developing world amid the rise of emerging powers like China, former World Bank head and Citigroup advisor James Wolfensohn said on Thursday.

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    Addressing a private-sector conference, Wolfensohn said it was important that the United States remains the dominant global force in tackling global poverty.

    "It isn't an option for the United States to withdraw, it just isn't an option," he told the Initiative for Global Development conference, a network of leading U.S. business leaders and former government officials pushing for increased U.S. involvement in ending global poverty.

    Wolfensohn said U.S. contributions to eradicate global poverty were well below what the country should be spending and it needed business leaders to raise that awareness.

    He said he recently traveled to Africa where increased Chinese business interests were evident, illustrating the Asian powers' economic push into developing economies.

    "There is a changing balance of which we are now seeing the beginnings of," Wolfensohn said. "It's not just us rich people sitting in fancy hotels in the United States. We're seeing the beginnings of an emergence of a different perception."

    "The framework is changing really quite dramatically and so as you look at the issue of poverty we're looking at it in a different way than we did 50 years ago, even today," he added.

    Wolfensohn said it was a matter of priority, not money, that should get the U.S. to boost its efforts in eliminating global poverty.

    "It's a question of how we look at our children, it's a question of what we say to the next generation ... it's a question you think of at the end of your life," he added.

    Wolfensohn said he supported business efforts like the Initiative for Global Development because it illustrated a growing sensitivity and willingness by American corporations to make a difference in the lives of the world's poorest.

    The initiative was co-founded by Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, William Ruckelshaus, former Environmental Protection Agency head; philanthropist Bill Clapp, former governor and senator Dan Evans; and retired general and former chiefs of staff chairman John Shalikashvili to influence U.S. policymakers to help end poverty.

    The conference included panel discussions by anti-poverty and development experts and former chief executives.

    "The business voice has to be strengthened by assembling leaders from all over the country and be much more active in terms of advocating for things that we know work for development," said Jennifer Potter, managing director of the Initiative for Global Development.

    Potter said the initiative would also try to bring expertise and skills of the business community to ensure aid was effective. "We think that the skills of the business community often aren't factored in to programs that are often done by the government or the nonprofit sectors," she added.
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    Bottom line.....they want us to give up more jobs for other countries!
    I say, kick out the UN, quit giving them our money! They are crooked!
    Do not vote for Party this year, vote for America and American workers!

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    Are we The United States Of America or The United Nations Of America?
    We are NOT a nation of immigrants!

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    Are we The United States Of America or The United Nations Of America?

    After listening to the one guy from the UN It seems we are more the United Nations. We have money, we have an army, everybody here is so wealthy...... It's OUR job to fix everything. Except we don't have the money as a country, our military is being used and we could use them here as well and only a few have money. They're getting our jobs......but it's our duty.
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    Are we the only country that has to assume the responsibility for taking care of people who have never and probably will never learn to take care of themselves? So the UN wants us to assume a greater role in dealing with world poverty? That's fine...let's start with mass sterilization programs to cut population growth which leads to poverty and war.

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    "It isn't an option for the United States to withdraw, it just isn't an option,"
    I asure if the people of this country had the voice they are supposed to have (through our elected officials) that is exactly the option the United States would take.



    US must show more leadership on poverty
    The US must do nothing. The UN needs to get out of our business. Kick these idiots to the curb.

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