World Bank

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Preparation Outline by Marcus Colicelli

Stop the World Bank

Thesis:

Introduction

1. AGD: I hope no one here opposes the senseless killing of millions a year, because that it what I intend to persuade all of you to help stop. For less then the price of a cup of coffee you can help save starvin Marvin and others like him from disease, famine, and utterly destitute poverty killing millions [pause] So why the hell are there these poor naked people on t.v. with stomachs swollen by malnutrition and eyes devoid of all pleasure? Well, the world bank has something to do with it all.
2. Thesis: The World Bank is a terrible bane of humanity that promotes the worst kinds of suffering on people through the ugliest facets of a purported democratic system.
3. Preview: First I will cite some of the specific atrocities unleashed upon many countries by the World Bank. Second, I will show how an insatiable lust for power is the disgusting cause. And finally, we will see that there does remain a glimmer of hope to help those less fortunate then us by stopping the tyranny of the bank.

[ Tyranny, atrocities, I bet you are confused about what this strange bank is and what kind of problems it is wreaking.]

I. The main problem is that a once good idea has run out of control and left some devastated people in its wake. The World Bank Group was created in 1944 to make loans or guarantee credit to its 177 member countries. And according to www.brettonwoodsproject.org the bank also makes loans to restructure a country’s economic system by funding structural adjustment programs or SAP’s which is what many countries are who believed in these programs.

A. One of the major problems is that these structural adjustment programs are just not working.
1. According to the book The Political Economy of Social Inequalities in almost every “third world’ country where these programs have been applied things have stayed the same or gotten much...