Michelle Obama to announce nearly $100 million for education in Morocco

chicagotribune.com ^ | June 28, 2016 | Katherine Skiba

[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.

[Trump Girl Kit Cat]

This IS THE PLAN, everyone WILL be a 3rd world country a world wide socialist utopia!!! America doesn’t deserve to be better than ANYONE else WE DID NOT BUILD THAT!! NWO, GLOBALISM!!!

[Trump Girl Kit Cat]

Congress has a job ??? OH MY I didn’t know this BASTARDS all of them!!!

[visualops]

nearly $100 million in funding from the Millennium Challenge Corporation, a foreign-aid agency

That's how they do what they want. Create an NGO and wahla! Free money.

[Parmy]

The schools and education system in her home town is in shambles. Most of those passed on can’t qualify to go to college.

[Liz]

You’re very welcome....spread the word far and wide.

[Drango]

Detroit is pissed.

[proud American in Canada]

What in the world? It’s a foreign-aid agency...is it private funds? Or taxpayers’?

[USMCPOP]

I predict that very little of this money will actually go to educating girls.

Damn skippy. The fund admins will all be men. An infusion of funds will require more men on the payroll to make sure the funds are spent wisely and the women are not spoiled.

[onyx]

Sounds as legitimate as the Clinton Foundation.

[PROCON]

U.S. Taxpayers

[dragnet2]

That is of no concern for Americans. The only concern here is the evil corrupt in government are looting Middle America.

[ifinnegan]

Thanks for this post.

$100M is about a tenth of the MCC budget.

https://www.mcc.gov/resources/story/story-cbj-fy2015-executive-summary

Below links to all the money (ours) given out by thus thing.

https://assets.mcc.gov/documents/previously-awarded-contracts.xlsx

[USMCPOP]

0bama doesn’t give squat to inner city people, let alone rural.

They are beneath him. His universe revolves around him. His keepers bankrolled a smooth-talking putz, as long as the scripted speeches keep rolling on the teleprompter.

[rawcatslyentist]

So Michael want’s money to educate US that he’s a thief.

[proud American in Canada]

ust as I suspected...the 100M is coming from YOUR pocket.

Then doesn't this spending make the decision Congress', not Michelle's?

[The_Media_never_lie]

EVER WONDER how much of the $47 million tax dollars got to Tanzania....after the players divvied it up among Blumenthal, Wilson, the Clintons, Obama?

Yes, I am wondering where did the money go? Surely they would not disburse $47 million dollars without accountability. If they did disburse $47 million without accountability, then that is a huge story.

We know the parties above all too well.

[proud American in Canada]

Thanks, PROCON. Simply unbelievable. What arrogance!!

[philman_36]

And where/when was this spending approved?

It can't just be pulled out of an orifice.

22 USC Ch. 84: MILLENNIUM CHALLENGE From Title 22—FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE

§7703. Establishment and management of the Millennium Challenge Corporation
(a) Establishment
There is established in the executive branch a corporation to be known as the "Millennium Challenge Corporation" that shall be responsible for carrying out this chapter. The Corporation shall be a government corporation, as defined in section 103 of title 5.

5 USC 103: Government corporation

For the purpose of this title-

(1) "Government corporation" means a corporation owned or controlled by the Government of the United States; and

(2) "Government controlled corporation" does not include a corporation owned by the Government of the United States.

[rey]

If the education is anything like that received by children in her hometown, it is absolutely meaningless, as is everything else she does.

[PROCON]

Moochie and her hubby have learned the tried and true Clinton Crime Family method of extorting U.S. Government funds.