What a LOAD OF HOOEY!!
That has to be an automated response, they don't address your main point [raising taxes to fund aid].
P.S. Forget about a UN and/or world tax; it's not going to happen.
LOL! Nothing like twisting the knife when it's in the wound!
And isn't it odd the UN didn't direct you to the actual transcript of his remarks?
I still can't find one.
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20041228-122330-7268r.htm
Let him call Bill Sammon a liar.
COLLINS: The tsunami disaster in Asia is triggering what's likely to be one of the biggest worldwide relief efforts in history.
As our Allan Chernoff reports, the ripples of the disaster are reaching out now to the United States.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The U.S. State Department.
ALLAN CHERNOFF, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Americans are answering the call for help, opening their hearts and wallets as they phone in donations to the American Red Cross.
LESLIE GOTTLIEB, AMERICAN RED CROSS: Calls have really increased in the past day, I think, as the enormity of the situation hits home and people realize how devastating this is.
CHERNOFF: Relief workers in Portland are packing medical supplies. A volunteer medical team is scheduled to fly Tuesday morning to Thailand.
BAS VANDERZALM, NORTHWEST MEDICAL TEAMS: Volunteer medical professionals in the Northwest are incredible and very giving. And so we are ready with personnel to be deployed.
CHERNOFF: And the international relief group Doctors Without Borders is seeking volunteers.
CATRIN SCHULTE HILLEN, DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS: Our first appeal is to medical personnel and logistic personnel that is available, that can help, yes, we'd be delighted. We need volunteers for the field.
CHERNOFF: Employees of the International Red Cross, CARE and OXFAM are already on the ground, working on the harsh logistics of providing food, drinking water and medical care. Aid workers agree the need will go on for months.
CHRISTOPH GORDER, AMERICARES: The larger task at hand will be keeping the survivors alive. There are millions of people who were displaced and vulnerable, in these unsanitary conditions, to killer diseases like diarrhea and upper respiratory tract infections.
CHERNOFF: Secretary of State Powell announced the U.S. government is starting off with $15 million in assistance. Not enough, argues the head of emergency relief at the United Nations.
JAN EGELAND, U.N. UNDER SECRETARY-GENERAL: It is beyond me why we are -- why are we so stingy, really, when we are, and even at Christmastime should remind many Western countries, at least, how rich we have become.
CHERNOFF (on camera): Relief organizations say Americans should donate money, not goods. That will allow professional aid workers to buy and deliver the goods and services that victims most desperately need.
Allan Chernoff, CNN, New York. (END VIDEOTAPE)
"I still can't find one."
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http://www.c-span.org/VideoArchives.asp?z1=&PopupMenu_Name=International&CatCodePairs=Issue,I;
U.N. Briefing on Relief for Victims of Earthquakes & Floods
Jan Egeland, U.N. Undersecretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, briefs the press on United Nation relief efforts for victims of the earthquakes and floods.
12/27/2004: WASHINGTON, DC: 50 min.
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Start at about the 41 minute mark.