Posted on 05/30/2007 9:21:34 AM PDT by jdm
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Bush urged Congress on Wednesday to authorize an additional $30 billion to fight AIDS in Africa over five years, doubling the current U.S. commitment.
The money would provide treatment for 2.5 million people under the President's Emergency Program for AIDS Relief, White House press secretary Tony Snow said.
Through March 31, the program has supported treatment for 1.1 million people in 15 countries, including more than 1 million in Africa, Snow said. The program's original five-year mandate, which called for spending $15 billion, expires in September 2008.
Snow said the specific goals for the next five years -- after Bush leaves office -- call for treatment of 2.5 million people, prevention of more than 12 million new infections and the care of more than 12 million people, including 5 million orphans and children.
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Where's all this $$$$ coming from?
ahem, sorry about the shouting.
This is simply nuts for our CEO of the executive branch to request and want to spend our money.
Isn’t the amount we presently spend more than all other contributing countries combined?
the more you give, the more theyll complain.
I am bored and sick and tire of the AIDS crap. Let all those in Hollywood take care of it. That aside—our great politicians are doing their best to “level-the-playing field” for us saps.
I can’t wait to see Bush go.
It’s just paper money. Commercial paper. It’s not yours and no one is taking it from you. It is new money backed by the economy of the world. We never give it away without expecting something big in return, a place to plant a military base, first pick of natural resources.
Bush is, simply put, an IDIOT!
boy oh boy.... Electing Bush was a serious mistake. He spends more money, that we don’t have, than Democrats.
Another pointless address by our absentee president.
What about the infectious hepatitis, incurable tuberculosis,
typhoid, cholera, plague, measles, mumps, disease, leprosy,
incurable Morgellons disease, Dengue fever, and
polio from which America was free before El Presidente
decided to import 40 million new infections riding on
illegal aliens (peppered with enemy and WMD)?
Wow, you could fix the border with that money. Amazing.
how about fighting the hoards pouring over our borders every single day by using that money to put troops on the border
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