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ONE | The Big Read

*copy pasted* ONE and The Global Campaign for Education will present The Big Read, a storybook promoting literacy and education worldwide, to President Obama on June 16 -- along with our request that he fulfill his campaign promise of contributing $2 billion to a Global Fund for Education.


If we have money to bailout soulsucking companies, surely we have money for global education? Eh, I signed. If you agree, you should sign as well.

Since bailing out those companies was a dumb decision in the first place, you best change your logic.

Thats an excellent point, actually.....
I still think you guys should sign it.

How much are other world powers contributing?

Between bail outs and credit card debt...it shouldn't matter how much anyone else is putting in. We obviously have the means to do such a thing and even if we stand alone so be it. A great leader would be willing to do such a thing (wow that's deep man). But really! We had a money problem so we threw money at it?!? Whatever... We could do whatever we want, and usually we do. Why not do something good? The real question is who's moderating the money and where exactly is it going? No matter what you say we'll never know for sure, but still....

Where do I sign?

^^Well said polyphonic. After much digging, couldn't find anything. I assume its because nothings definite yet.
Yeah, thats pree much my point. If we money for THAT, then don't we have money for teaching children in the Third World how to read?

Do you two nimrods even understand economy at all? Throwing money at money problems is logical because they're trying to kick start the economy. Its no different than taking business loans which technically put you in debt until you pay them off. On the other hand spending money to no gain while you have no money is not only impractical but its detrimental.

RIGHT! Like War money funding for the war on drugs, political campaigns, raising salaries for members of congress, funding for immoral and illegal detainment camps such as Gitmo, crap hold on, I've gotta go but I'll be back with a whole list.

Point A. Taxpayer money doesn't go to political campaigns that's raised by the DNC/RNC and donations.
Point B. Congress can only raise their salary when a new session begins and they have to vote on it they don't do it whenever they feel like and the raises are never really that extravagant. Also Congress has never raised their salaries individually recently.
Point C. It doesn't cost much money to rent the area that is Guantanamo Bay detention camp and we've been renting it for a long time. The fiscal amount to keep that running should be the least of your concerns when it comes to where money is going. Unless you suggest downsizing the military (or at least military expenditures which President Obama is doing) which would be silly seeing as we're in two wars and they'd just be sent elsewhere (and will be seeing as it's been shut down.)

I hope your "whole list" is as thought out as the preview you provided us which only has the war on drugs and the war in Iraq going for it which are hardly new/shocking revelations of reckless spending.

Anyway I know the United States is so great and the world's only superpower and everything but why not petition a head of a state that actually has money? Or at the very least a country without a huge deficit.

I understand President Obama may have "promised" to donate that amount of money but I doubt he did it after the whole fiasco on Wall Street. Also it would be much more effective to lobby Congress instead. Or if you want a single person then lobby Nancy Pelosi as opposed to the President. This is a good cause but the execution is more symbolic than anything else and the timing couldn't be worse.