Bush Administration tells the world's hungry to eat economic growth

http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=1107822004

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"The greatest scandal is not that hunger exists but that it persists even when we have the means to eliminate it. It is time to take action," said a declaration signed by 110 nations and adopted at the close of a World Leaders Summit on Hunger held at UN headquarters.

But the US poured cold water on the project, with the leader of the American delegation, agriculture secretary Ann Veneman, dismissing it.

"Economic growth is the long-term solution to hunger and poverty," she told the meeting. "Global taxes are inherently undemocratic. Implementation is impossible."

Brazil’s president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva criticised the US for failing to endorse the pledge.

"How many more times will it be necessary to repeat that the most destructive weapon of mass destruction in the world today is poverty?" said Mr Lula. "We must harness globalisation. We must turn it into a positive force."

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that we spread Democracy (global capitalism) throughout the world. America must of course be at the forefront of this initiative, reaping the lion's share of the benefits while casting the leftovers to the "liberated" countries.

It's all so simple yet these other countries don't seem to get it! :eyes:

What the U.N. is suggesting is Socialism, and Gawd forbid we feed people merely out of emotion, good will or sensibility. They should pull themselves up by the bootstraps and make something of themselves or toe the Capitalistic line and allow us to modernize their pathetic economies to benefit us. If they happen to make a few bucks on the deal that's OK too, that''s what Capitalism is all about, correct? :eyes:

You don't realize how painful that was to write. Thinking like a Conservative takes a dehumanizing level to which I'm not accustomed.