Under-fire Wolfowitz asks U.S. to give school aid

Reuters, via ABC News ^ | 2 May 2007 | Staff

[Kitten Festival]

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The head of the World Bank brushed aside calls to quit on Wednesday and urged the United States and other rich countries to honor funding promises for a plan to help all the world's young children attend school.

Paul Wolfowitz declined to comment on calls from some U.S. politicians for him to resign. A former head of a World Bank ethics panel said on Tuesday Wolfowitz broke staff rules when he intervened directly in the personnel matters of his girlfriend.

[Kitten Festival]

Now he wants us to pay for every third worlders' education! Nice deal for the third world governments of course, they can go on lining their pockets without any pressure to develop a credible economy that can bring in taxes. Nice deal indeed! Switzerland, here they come! I told you he was a leftist, look how easily this plan can be manipulated by third world governments! And he calls himself the master of anticorruption! Assuming he's sincere, he either doesn't understand moral hazard and human nature or else is incredibly cynical.

[The Worthless Miracle]

How is this “World Bank” nonsense beneficial to the United States? What is our interest in it?

[Vn_survivor_67-68]

the last little project didn’t bring big returns according to plan
http://www.harpers.org/archive/2004/09/0080197

[Rodney King]

Not that I think the World Bank should even exist, but I was supporting Wolfowitz through this. Now he is trying to buy his way out with our tax dollars. Screw him.

[Vn_survivor_67-68]

Here’s a description I snagged from an article posted by kronos elsewhere....it describes these meetings:

“”No convention in Washington is quite so overwhelming as the gathering of four thousand dark-suited men... They seethe into the lobbies, lurk around the entrances and crowd into the garish elevators impregnating every floor with intensity... Luxury suites [are] converted overnight into miniature embassies... Through the main entrance more bankers are swarming in... As they pursue their prey down the escalators, up the elevators, along the upstairs corridors into their suites, they cannot conceal their anxiety to do business.... They [bankers] have not come here to listen to the usual stuff about inflation or absolute poverty, but to make profitable deals with the ministers and delegates who are now so uniquely and conveniently assembled in one place.”
http://www.serbianna.com/columns/mb/058.shtml

[Capt. Cox]

LOL nice try to divert attention.

[Kitten Festival]

I didn’t make the announcement, Paul did. Take your complaint to him. Oh, and consider that he wants YOU, that’s right, YOU, to pay for every third worlder’s education. Enjoy your tax bill. But Be Happy you have Wolfie to do your tax-hiking for you.

[the Real fifi]

correct

[RedWhitetAndBlue]

Is that really accurate? Each one of us individually is to “pay for every third worlder’s education”? I mean, you said, “he wants YOU, that’s right, YOU, to pay for every third worlder’s education.” So assuming he’s referring only to those primary-aged school kids who aren’t currently in school, you’re saying he wants each of us to pay 100% of the cost of putting 90 million children into school. Is that how you understand it? Or is he asking the cost to be spread among hundreds of millions of taxpayers worldwide, with the result of putting 90 million children into school, who will then, by nature of having an education, be not only literate, but will be able to contribute to their own economies and be more productive in the workforce, the benefits of which would far exceed the costs?

It’s not quite that simple, but I’d venture it’s closer to reality than what you’re putting forward.

[Kitten Festival]

If you pay taxes, that’s EXACTLY what he wants. Are you happy to pay taxes to nations that refuse to create economies so that their own citizens can provide a tax base? If so, you are different from me. If you pay taxes and wolf wants your taxes, you’re paying for third world schools. Enjoy your taxes.

[Kitten Festival]

How is it diverting attention? He REALLY WANTS you to pay for third world schools. if you can’t dislike him for all his honeypot and salary adventures, his demands that you pay for third world schools might be a better reason. That is the whole problem with wolfowitz by the way - he thinks that if HE asks for some mark malcolm brown type socialist redistribution scheme, it’s ok, but if some world bank liberal type does, it’s not ok. He thinks that if he does something gross it’s ok and if a leftist does it’s not. But it’s the same act! That’s why I think he has no principles, he is not even rightwing, he just stands for lining his pocket and that of his girlfriend. He’s no reformer. Jacques Chirac could have made this plea and it wouldn’t be a compromise of his principles. For wolfowitz, it is, but he thinks his being who he is justifies any act, no matter how leftwing. It’s why I can’t stand him.