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To: spiral3 who wrote (138672)	7/2/2004 6:55:31 PM
From: Noel de Leon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Thanks for the source. I liked these sections: "James Wolfensohn: I think not enough. I think that the world is spending something around fifty billion dollars on development and which by the way only half goes in cash, the rest is for consultants and various other things. We're spending three hundred and fifty billion dollars a year on agricultural subsidies and tariff protections.... ...But we're spending close to a thousand billion dollars a year on military expenditure. And it strikes me that if you're trying to deal with the question of stability, to spend one-twentieth of what you have for development, for making people's lives better, than you spend on military expenditure is a form of nonsense that needs to be arrested." "James Wolfensohn: Let me explain in one particular thing. The world has agreed that all kids have a right to go to primary school. It was done in the Declaration of Human Rights. It was done at the Millennial Summit. There isn't a leader in the world that wouldn't say that if you want to have development and peace, you've got to give every primary school kid a chance to go to school. Have a hundred and twenty-five million kids in the world out of school, we have to raise three billion dollars a year to get those countries to a level that need additional funding to put them into school. So far we've managed to raise three hundred million for three years. Three hundred million for three years. And this is not an issue that anyone is arguing about the objective. We know how to educate kids in school. We know what about teachers; we know about schools, we know about the curricula. Now here is a perfectly simple, straightforward example that every American would say in his heart all kids should go to school. We cannot raise that money." That's 0.3% of the world's military budgets and less than 1% of the world's agricultural subsidies and tariff protection. It, of course, should be read in conjunction with the rest of the information and ideas in the interview. Very relevant to FADG.