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Bribing a Foreign Gov With Our Tax $$ To "Convince" Them to Conserve….

in the early morning on Tuesday, the 30th of June 2009 by Katie

When is this insane cycle going to stop? When will our government realize that it is flat broke? When will they stop with the free flow of our money?

U.S. to Forgive Indonesian Debt in Exchange for Conservation Plan

JAKARTA, Indonesia — The United States will sign an agreement Tuesday to forgive nearly $30 million in Indonesian debt in return for the large Southeast Asian country agreeing to protect forests on Sumatra Island, which is home to endangered tigers, elephants, rhinos and orangutan.
The deal is the largest so-called debt-for-nature swap the U.S. government has organized so far under the U.S. Tropical Forest Conservation Act and its first such pact with Indonesia, which has one of the fastest deforestation rates in the world, losing an area of forest the size of Switzerland annually.

Gee, I wonder if I could work out a similar plan? I could agree to preserve nature in my backyard (ie not mow or week the “naturally occurring” vegetation), and they can forgive my mortgage?

Normal families have had to make sacrifices. We trim our budgets of non-essentials when money gets tight. Our government should act the same. Instead, it is spending money like a drunk sailor on shore leave…