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Bush Asking Congress for More Than $22 Billion in Foreign Aid
AP ^ | 2/3/05 | Barry Schweid

Posted on 02/03/2005 2:16:31 PM PST by Jean S

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1 posted on 02/03/2005 2:16:32 PM PST by Jean S
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To: JeanS

I thought I saw an article the other day that claimed he was going to start *cutting* spending.


2 posted on 02/03/2005 2:17:48 PM PST by k2blader (It is neither compassionate nor conservative to support the expansion of socialism.)
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To: JeanS

Read later.


3 posted on 02/03/2005 2:22:36 PM PST by EagleMamaMT
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To: JeanS

I gotta get me soem of that Foreign Aid!


4 posted on 02/03/2005 2:23:19 PM PST by kingsurfer
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To: k2blader

Cut in spending? Whats that?
And an additional $350 mil to Palestinians.
Whats up with all this? Getting scary.


5 posted on 02/03/2005 2:26:00 PM PST by stopem
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To: JeanS

This is from President George "I will send you a budget that holds the growth of discretionary spending below inflation...and stays on track to cut the deficit in half by 2009" Bush? A 10% increase is way over the rate of inflation.


6 posted on 02/03/2005 2:27:09 PM PST by Non-Sequitur
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I gotta get me soem of that Foreign Aid!

Sure, if you want to guard the Israel/PA border.....

7 posted on 02/03/2005 2:29:48 PM PST by JohnnyZ ("Thought I was having trouble with my adding. It's all right now." - Clint Eastwood)
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To: JeanS

This is a budget item that should be zero.


8 posted on 02/03/2005 2:31:45 PM PST by Thorin ("I won't be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.")
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Twenty billion in foreign aid?? Piece of cake, heck we give $10 billion a year in aid in California to illegal aliens. And nobody complains about that....


9 posted on 02/03/2005 2:32:44 PM PST by EagleUSA
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To: k2blader

GWB has no problem giving away jobs Americans don't want...why not Americans money?


10 posted on 02/03/2005 2:38:53 PM PST by politicalwit (Import poverty...hire an illegal today)
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To: EagleUSA

All we are doing is "buying" friendship.

THEY WILL STILL HATE US


11 posted on 02/03/2005 2:39:10 PM PST by superiorslots
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To: JeanS

That's mighty generous of him.


12 posted on 02/03/2005 2:39:13 PM PST by kenth (I love the smell of burning troll in the morning.)
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To: k2blader
I thought I saw an article the other day that claimed he was going to start *cutting* spending.

I do believe ol' George is drinking again.

Pretend it's your money for once, Georgie, and take another look, mmmmmmmmK?

13 posted on 02/03/2005 2:41:00 PM PST by Hank Rearden (Never allow anyone who could only get a government job attempt to tell you how to run your life.)
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All we are doing is "buying" friendship.

THEY WILL STILL HATE US
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Very true, and that is why I have sent countless emails to the administration encouraging them to drop foreign aid, except to countries that EARN IT. That means alot of things, but these scumbag nations that just spit on us, should be cut off at the knees, immediately, if not sooner.


14 posted on 02/03/2005 2:43:00 PM PST by EagleUSA
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To: superiorslots

Let's see

GW wants to raise the bounty on Osama's head from 25-50 million, Increase death benfits for soldiers killed in action from $12,000 to $100,000..and make it retoractive no less. Is he going to get money for the sailors who died on the Cole?? or Khobat towers or the bombing of the amrine barracks in lebanon in '82?? (what happens when we have a war with 20-40K killed or more)

Gave millions to people killed on 9-11.

What happens if we have a biological attack and 10's of thousands die?

George is setting a precendent with all this reckless spending.


15 posted on 02/03/2005 2:43:59 PM PST by superiorslots
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To: Hank Rearden; politicalwit; stopem
Here's that article:

Bush to Call for Near-Freeze in Spending: Aide

Is that a laugh or what.

16 posted on 02/03/2005 2:48:05 PM PST by k2blader (It is neither compassionate nor conservative to support the expansion of socialism.)
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To: EagleUSA

Wonder how many of those countries that get aid somehow the money gets filtered down into terrorist groups?

In a sense we are buying the rpg's that kill our own troops.


17 posted on 02/03/2005 2:49:03 PM PST by superiorslots
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No no no, it's all part of that Compassion he talks about.

What he ever fails to say is that its compassion with someone elses money.

Jorge Delano Bush is no Conservative. Never has been, never will be. Big Government RINO. Spend spend spend.

Wait until you see what he hashes out with Vincente before he leaves office.

Remeber all those that suggested Jorge would push the conservative Agenda once he was re-elected with a Majority in the Senate?

Well you won't see them on this thread. LOL


18 posted on 02/03/2005 2:49:22 PM PST by Area51 (Illegal Immigration: 20 Million Mexicans can't be wrong.)
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To: superiorslots

In a sense we are buying the rpg's that kill our own troops.
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This is one potential reality that has always scared me. You could be right on.


19 posted on 02/03/2005 2:56:15 PM PST by EagleUSA
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Spend spend spend, what's a few billion, spend some more....I am sick and tired of this crap! Friggin Politicians, they need a dose of reality...let em live on my budget!


20 posted on 02/03/2005 2:59:48 PM PST by iopscusa (El Vaquero)
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