"As surely as there is a voyage away, there is a journey home."
-Jack Kornfield

10 December 2008

A Gun At Our Heads




"We need to put this in some perspective...$150 billion is more than the World Bank spent in 15 years.
We've spent that out on one company (AIG). We could have done enormous amounts to reduce poverty around the world. We have not been able to meet our commitments to the developing countries, saying its beyond our budget envelope. And yet, overnight, we found $150 billion dollars."