Millions of dollars will be spent on education, housing and health care.
Why is it MY job to educate, house, and provide healthcare to the world?
These people all make me gag! They are so dam generous with MY money.
How many decades have we been giving hundreds of millions to Latin America?
Have we ever achieved anything?
Evidently not.
Maybe the problem is more basic than just lack of basic services. After all, they've got oil, gold, silver, plenty of food, plenty of other natural resources.
Maybe their countries are just badly run--military dictators, socialism, etc.
Sorry, we can't do anything about that. They'll have to fix that themselves.
Oh no, no, no. This aid--whatever of it actually filters down to those for whom it is intended--will have no discernable effect. The only way "aid" will do any good is if it is tied to economic and political reforms. Otherwise, these corrupt oligarchies will continue to generate poverty and hopelessness.
This just smells like vote-buying South of the Border. Or even worse, he is allowing himself to be rolled by the Chavez-orchestrated anti-yanqui riots. Nixon took it on the chin and kept smiling in '59 and so can Bush.
Too pi$$ed to post
I'm sorry to say I really am getting to the point I can't stand this guy. --A former Bushbot.
I have a lot of "wants" too - when is GW and the Gubmint gonna sponsor those wants too???
Oh aaauugh! Hasn't the man heard that charity begins at home, where good outsourced jobs need to be brought home? No foreign aid to S.A.!
Most of it to end up in the deep pockets of the continent's dictators, of course. ....while the "plight of the region's poor" remains unchanged.
The Prez's eye remains steady on that "integration" ball -- Unwaivering focus.
Mr. President, please concentrate on being president of the U.S. of A., not of the entire world!
Yet in one Latin American Country the leader calls him the devil. The protest saying Bush go home and all the terrible pictures this week in Latin America and the protest. Yet the hand is out for our money , yes people for our money our tax dollars. Let's see how many more people do we need to support while they call our country names. And than we got Edwards who just said Jesus would of've thought Americans are selfish. Last time I checked I don't live in a million dollar home, have a ranch etc etc. I am really sick of people saying Americans wont do the job, Americans are selfish, especially from rich people.
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Giving away our dollars has earned us nothing but contempt from those on the dole.
End the welfare state and much of the hostility will cease.
Better to spend it in Latin America than in the Middle East, which is where most of our hard-earned tax dollars are going to - and not for military efforts, but for aid to those stupid Muslim money-pits. Latin America would be a much better investment.
And after all that, they'll still hate us.
O guess that he has not heard of the adage, "If you try to please everyone, no one will like it."
What can you say? Presidente Arbusto has hardly made a correct decision since the Alito nomination (and he had to be pushed into that too). El presidente, time to retire to Crawford and let us see what President Cheney can do.
And some on this site want us to support a guy even further to the left than Bush? Never again. Two times of holding my nose hasn't gotten me much.
I am not a proponent of Free Health care or of Government health care. But why would we send millions to Latin America while we have kids here who cannot afford a Doctor.
The only kind of aid we should be sending to Latin America is for contraception, sterilization, and abortion. The "poverty" in South America is the direct result of breeding like feral cats, just like in Africa. People don't care one iota that the children they already have are starving -- they just go ahead and have more anyway. And then we're confronted with the extortionist alternatives: send lots of money, or we'll breed terrorists and teeming masses of illegal immigrants to swarm over your border. Trouble is, every penny you give them just goes to make more babies. We've been sending money for decades, and the "poverty" never gets any better, it's quantity just multiplies.
Oh, Texas, California, Arizona, and Florida are going to be getting aid now?