guess the sequester doesn't apply to goathumpers...
Posted on 09/14/2013 2:56:50 PM PDT by Steve Peacock
Also giving Indonesians more college scholarships
Budget deficits, spending limits, the sequester and economic headwinds all seem to fall by the wayside for Barack Obama’s overseas spending program.
Now that a $305 million U.S. initiative has built and renovated hundreds of Pakistani schools – including private Islamic madrassas in addition to public institutions – the Obama administration is set to infuse $25 million to improve student reading skills in those schools.
Using congressionally authorized FY 2010-FY 2012 funds, a pair of U.S. Agency for International Development initiatives will embark upon the literacy phase of the massive educational project, according to a solicitation that WND located via routine database research.
The Sindh Basic Education Program, or SBEP, and the Southern Punjab Basic Education Program or SPBEP, ultimately could cost U.S. taxpayers $115 million and $190 million, respectively.
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
Why did Congress authorize this?
GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Our Military’s getting a pay cut and increase in Tri-Care costs, and he’s wasting millions on a stinking turd-world shithole.
Well, when teachers, and firefighters and policemen are losing their jobs in Pakistan, what is one supposed to do.
FUBO POS!
Well, at least the Pakistani kids will be able to read cursive.
Dear Mr. Pee Cock:
What seems to have caused you to excerpt your material?
Excellent question.
Note that Justice John Marshall had officially clarified that Congress cannot lay taxes in the name of state power issues, essentially any issue that Congress cannot justify under its constitutional Section 8, Article I-limited powers.
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." --Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
And given that the states have never delegated to Congress, via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate, tax and spend for public school purposes, no federal tax dollars shoud be spent for such purposes.
And even if the states had granted Congress the constitutional authority to tax and spend for public school purposes, Justice Joseph Story had clarified that Congress cannot use the General Welfare Clause, Clause 1 of Section 8 of Article I, to justify using tax dollars for foreign aid.
"If the tax be not proposed for the common defence, or general welfare, but for other objects, wholly extraneous, (as for instance, for propagating Mahometanism among the Turks, or giving aids and subsidies to a foreign nation, to build palaces for its kings, or erect monuments to its heroes,) it would be wholly indefensible upon constitutional principles. (emphasis added)" --Justice Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution 2 (1833).
So neither the legislative or executive branches of the federal government are respecting the Constitution on this issue.
What a mess! :^(
Sigh....
Obama just hates our nation. That is the only thing that explains it for me.
DAMMIt WHERE THE HELL iS CONGRESS??????????????
BOEHNER YOu PANSY ASS STEP DOWN AND GIVE THAT JOB TO A PERSON WITH SOME ACTUal BALLS
B0 has lots of boy friends in Pock-ee-stahn.
How much do Pockeestahnees pay in taxes?
Zilch. Impeach this fraud. Now.
Good question.
I agree with your assessment of Boehner, but we all know this sh!t was going on long before he came aboard. Our “representatives” just sign along to get along... they don’t really care where the money goes, and they sure as hell don’t give a thought as to WHERE THE MONEY CAME FROM!
guess the sequester doesn't apply to goathumpers...
They will love us for the free stuff.....<sarc/
a $305 million U.S. initiative has built and renovated hundreds of Pakistani schools -- including private Islamic madrassas in addition to public institutions
Obama and fam could go on some really nice vacations for $300 million.
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