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Carter has Habitat for Humanity for his cause, now Clinton has world wealth redistribution

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Former US president Bill Clinton today vowed to dedicate the rest of his life to helping redistribute the world's wealth.

At his fourth Australian speaking engagement, Mr Clinton said prosperous nations including Australia and the United States held the key to the world's future. He said it would cost America $US2.5 billion ($A4.87 billion) to meet UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan's request for an extra $US10 billion ($A19.47 billion) to fight AIDS and other infections diseases.


"For us, you know what that is?" he asked the $1,100-a-head charity dinner in Melbourne for the Microsurgery Foundation.
"Two-and-a-half months of the Afghan war, and about one tenth of one per cent of the federal budget. "That's it." "There are 40 million AIDS cases a day and if we don't do something about it, there will be 100 million AIDS cases a day."

Mr Clinton said Australians needed to identify with people of poorer nations. "If we can, then our children will have the most peaceful and prosperous and the most interesting and fun time in all of human history," he said.

"I'm going to do what I can for the rest of my life to make that happen, and I hope you will too.


 
Hmmm...I remember when redistributing wealth was called COMMUNISM! And, you know, that has worked out so well.

I will gladly offer a person my hand to help them get on their feet but I will not offer a hand-out. That is the destroyer of motivation and self-worth.
 


<< Hmmm...I remember when redistributing wealth was called COMMUNISM! And, you know, that has worked out so well.

I will gladly offer a person my hand to help them get on their feet but I will not offer a hand-out. That is the destroyer of motivation and self-worth. >>



Ditto.

Why cant Clinton redistribute all the hotties around the world? I mean, Latin America and Sweden have WAY to many for theyre own good.
 
Since Clinton wants to use $10 billion of funds to help fight infections diseases, he is now in favor of wealth redistribution?? That's quite a reach if you ask me.
 
"Why cant Clinton redistribute all the hotties around the world? I mean, Latin America and Sweden have WAY to many for theyre own good."

I wouldn't want Clinton in charge of that. His taste in women is questionable at best - Paula Jones, Monica Lewinsky, Hilary,.... you get my point.

I guess the bonus to that is that he would bogart all the ugly women.
 
Wealth redistribution (communism) leaves everyone equally POOR. It benefits no one in the long term, and only serves to squelch initiative and innovation.

It is also slavery as it makes one man ENTITLED to the labor of another.
 
Of course he wants to work for wealth redistribution -- no one in their right mind would elect him, and he's been disbarred. He needs some form of income. 😀

(Yes, I know he has a pension and earns money for speeches -- will he be redistributing his wealth, too?)
 


<< no one in their right mind would elect him >>


That's what they said about Hillary. 🙂 Besides, it's easy to say when he isn't running for anything, but I think he is very electable if he runs for congress in some states.



<< (Yes, I know he has a pension and earns money for speeches -- will he be redistributing his wealth, too?) >>


I believe he will be redistributing it to his and paula jones' lawyers. 🙂
 
something that people have to understand is: in order for capitalism to work, there have to be 3 classes (technically only 2 but in actuality 3) The wealthy, the middle class, and the poor, you might not like it, but there isn't enough to go around for everyone. Some are going to be wealthy, some not, luck of the draw I guess, and I sure don't need some modern day robin hood goin around and "redistributing the wealth"
 
"You don't strengthen the weak by weakening the strong"

But I am not seeing how he wants to do it, just how he wants to raise medical recearch...

Armani
 


<< I wouldn't want Clinton in charge of that. His taste in women is questionable at best - Paula Jones, Monica Lewinsky, Hilary,.... you get my point.

I guess the bonus to that is that he would bogart all the ugly women. >>



ROFLMAO Clinton rocks!

Anyways,
Clinton has the right idea on this one. The world really needs our help. Our style of donating hasn't helped. We can't send 300million meals to stop famine for 100million people. It just doesn't work. The EU and the US (but not the Bush administration) have acknowledged that they need to start spending much more money than they are now. I think that Clinton may become an extreemly important person to the cause. Good for him.

People need a helping hand. Think about what is going to happen to the Maldive islands if global warming causes the oceans to rise. I don't think there is a point in the country that is above 6 feet high.

Overpopulation is the biggest problem that mankind is facing. It will cost us LOADS of money to try to turn the tide. Even that however will be a fraction of our military spending. Don't you think that if we spend more now to better the lives of our fellow beings that we will have to spend less money in the future to protect ourselves from them?


Go for it Clinton. Be bigger than Gandhi.

LaBang
 
Redistribution of wealth is not solely a concept of Communism. In fact, Capitalism depends on wealth redistribution for it to work. Hell, Capitalism *is* wealth redistribution. It's a question of method, not concept.
 


<< something that people have to understand is: in order for capitalism to work, there have to be 3 classes (technically only 2 but in actuality 3) The wealthy, the middle class, and the poor, you might not like it, but there isn't enough to go around for everyone. Some are going to be wealthy, some not, luck of the draw I guess, and I sure don't need some modern day robin hood goin around and "redistributing the wealth" >>



The simplicity of your statement is in thinking these classes are static. They are not... at least, they aren't if one doesn't want to remain static. There is NO excuse for remaining in a low-paying entry level job for a person's entire life. At 18, I was "poor" doing day laborer jobs. At 20 I was still poor, doing a stint in the army and remained "poor" during college. At 25 I reached "middle class" with my first management job. And now, at 34, I'm in the top 5%.

See how that CAN work if one has the initiative to do it?
 


<< Redistribution of wealth is not solely a concept of Communism. In fact, Capitalism depends on wealth redistribution for it to work. Hell, Capitalism *is* wealth redistribution. It's a question of method, not concept. >>



OK, FORCED wealth redistribution. There IS a difference.
 


<<

<< I wouldn't want Clinton in charge of that. His taste in women is questionable at best - Paula Jones, Monica Lewinsky, Hilary,.... you get my point.

I guess the bonus to that is that he would bogart all the ugly women. >>



ROFLMAO Clinton rocks!

Anyways,
Clinton has the right idea on this one. The world really needs our help. Our style of donating hasn't helped. We can't send 300million meals to stop famine for 100million people. It just doesn't work. The EU and the US (but not the Bush administration) have acknowledged that they need to start spending much more money than they are now. I think that Clinton may become an extreemly important person to the cause. Good for him.

People need a helping hand. Think about what is going to happen to the Maldive islands if global warming causes the oceans to rise. I don't think there is a point in the country that is above 6 feet high.

Overpopulation is the biggest problem that mankind is facing. It will cost us LOADS of money to try to turn the tide. Even that however will be a fraction of our military spending. Don't you think that if we spend more now to better the lives of our fellow beings that we will have to spend less money in the future to protect ourselves from them?


Go for it Clinton. Be bigger than Gandhi.

LaBang >>



Yes, Mr Clinton, rob people of what is rightfully theirs under threat of improsonment to ease LaBang's guilty conscious.

Please, waste billions on stop gap measures such as sending food and AIDS medication rather than focusing on what CAUSES famine and the spread of HIV.

Sorry, LaBang, if YOU want to help, I commend you, but what right do you have to insist others help against their will?
 
Here's one for you . . . the Superfund was created to make polluters pay to clean up the messes they've made around the country. Even Reagan and Bush re-authorized it but it failed in the GOP House in 1994. Now the fund is essentially empty and our gubment's sol'n is to use general revenue to pay for cleaning up fewer sites. Is that not redistribution of wealth from the bottom up?
 


<< Please, waste billions on stop gap measures such as sending food and AIDS medication rather than focusing on what CAUSES famine and the spread of HIV. >>


Human lives we are talking about here. So if someone is in an emergency room with a heart attack, we should discuss their diet before we offer them any help
I guess amuzedone would rather we discuss the root causes while millions of people die.
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OK, FORCED wealth redistribution. There IS a difference.

Try holding on to property when the government comes a calling. Many small business/landowners have been forced to relinquish property in the name of public good "imminent domain" but the primary benefit is often realized by small number of entities - check out how the TX Rangers acquired the land for their last stadium. Dick Cheney was talking about serious land acquisitions necessary to update our system of electricity distribution/transmission. I wonder which company would benefit the most . . .
 
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