Posted on 06/28/2016 2:38:27 PM PDT by PROCON
First lady Michelle Obama is relying heavily on social media to tout an overseas trip tied to the Let Girls Learn campaign, which is aiming to get an estimated 62 million uneducated girls into school.
Obama started a Snapchat account with help from celebrities including James Corden of "The Late Late Show," with whom she recently taped a "Carpool Karaoke" that will run at a future date.
She's posting reports on her stops in Liberia, Morocco and Spain on hellogiggles.com, an online community for women. She referred in one report to the heartbreak of an 11- or 12-year-old girl told to forget her dreams and prepare to marry a man twice her age and have children.
Obama was in Liberia on Monday, and on Tuesday will begin a two-day swing through Morocco, where she will provide details of nearly $100 million in funding from the Millennium Challenge Corporation, a foreign-aid agency, to create a new model for secondary education, her aides said.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
Is this out of her own pocket?
And actually, American education is without financial needs. If the currently-provided money were wisely used, it would be far more than sufficient.
Just one look-see into how politicians steal tax dollars.
100 million dollars... Morocco’s population is about 33 million people.The math isn’t that hard to do.
and the fine print says it will be administered by the
www.barackobamafoundation.org/
Barack Obama’s commitment to public service preceded his presidency, and will continue long after he and the First Lady leave the White House. - right off their website
The Obama's are salivating to get rich quick like the Clintons did upon exiting the WH. Mrs O has said its time they make a little money making speeches (like the Clintons).
<><> We demand to see the list wire-transfers going in and out of Valerie's office.
<><> We demand to see the fund solicitation letters from the Obama 's two foundations (two that we know of).
<><> Open the books of Obama's billion dollar Chicago library funding (headed by O's sister).
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Arkansas senator Tom Cotton hammered the president's foreign policy staff Tuesday morning, explaining why he's become "public enemy number one at the White House" over his opposition to the Iran deal. "I guess I became public enemy number one at the White House because I'm telling the truth about the Iran deal.
Cotton spoke out w/ radio host Hugh Hewitt, after Hewitt played a clip of White House press secretary Josh Earnest rejecting Cotton's arguments about the Iran deal.
"And that chump may think that subsidizing Iran's nuclear program with millions of tax dollars is a laughing matter. I don't think it's that funny. And if he or anyone else over there had ever been man enough to put on the uniform and pick up a rifle, and have to lead men in dodging Iranian-made bombs, they might not be laughing, either," the freshman senator added.
So has a new compact been signed?
(j) Duration of Compact
The duration of a Compact shall not exceed 5 years.
I saw that on YouTube. The street of the mutton vendors was memorable. I would have brought a quart of hot sauce.
And I thought spending was controlled by the house. Silly me.
Some info on this organization:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Challenge_Corporation
As American taxpayers, we should never, ever allow a check to be written to any foreign country. If we want to pay Americans to go somewhere to lend a hand (”Peace Corps”), that is one thing. But to hand over our cold, hard cash to another government leads to several bad things (drum roll) - corruption, misappropriation of funds, and a total lack of accountability. If our “elected representatives” cannot be held to a standard of accountability, what can we expect from a foreign government???
On February 9, 2016, the Administration proposed its FY2017 budget, including $1 billion for the MCC, 11% higher than the FY2016 level. Congress authorized the MCC in P.L. 108 - 199 (January 23, 2004 ). Since that time, the MCC has signed 32 grant agreements, known as compacts , with 2 6 countries, including with Madagascar (calendar year 2005), Honduras (20 05), Cape Verde (2005), Nicaragua (2005), Georgia (2005), Benin (2006), Vanuatu (2006), Armenia (2006), Ghana (2006), Mali (2006), El Salvador (2006), Mozambique (2007), Lesotho (2007), Morocco (2007), Mongolia (2007), Tanzania (200 8 ), Burkina Faso (2008), Namibia (2008), Senegal (2009), Moldova (20 10 ), Philippines (2010), Jordan (2010), Malawi (2011), Indonesia (2011), Cape Verde II (201 2 ) , Zambia (2012), Georgia II (2013), El Salvador II (2014), Ghana II (2014) , Benin II (2015), Liberia (2015) , and Morocc o II (2015).
Foreign aid many are not even aware of.
You are awesome.
Stay awesome.
Not being sarcastic.
This MCC program originated under Bush 43, I suppose under the guise of a righteous Humanitarian device.
0bama has UPed the ante and, IMO, is banking a bunch of the funds off-shore somewhere.
OMGosh, I live in Kentucky, and wow, do we need some help right here. What a shame. It will probably all go into some dictator’s Swiss bank account, never to be seen again except in the Caribbean islands.....
Nonsense. If anything we ought to be sending Mexico a bill for the education we are providing their citizens here.
Well, it’s not like we don’t throw money at education in this country likes its water on a three alarm Fire. Which is of course wasted in its application by the Marxists in charge.
We could fix some bridges with $100 M.
Where does a First Lady get this kind of money ?
She has zero authority to do this.
voila
I know how to spell the French word, I am half French. It’s a joke to say ‘wahla’ LOL!
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