HELL NO!!!
Posted on 06/26/2008 4:23:33 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Members of the Senate sought on Thursday to pass bipartisan legislation to more than triple funds to fight AIDS in Africa and other countries, but some Republican foes vowed to block it because of its cost.
President George W. Bush had called for a doubling of U.S. funding to help fight a global battle against AIDS.
There are indications his administration would go along with more aggressive spending, according to congressional aides. But he has had difficulty convincing some fellow Republicans in Congress to go along.
Supporters of the proposed $50 billion in U.S. funds over five years had hoped the legislation would be approved by the Senate before a July 7-9 meeting in Japan of leaders from major industrialized countries. The U.S. House of Representatives passed its version of the measure on April 2.
If the Senate embraces the $50 billion passed by the House, health groups hope that would pressure Japan and other major Western economies at the meeting to increase their contributions as well.
But with time running out before Congress begins a holiday recess at the end of this week, Sen. Jim DeMint, a South Carolina Republican, threatened to block passage.
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From 15 to 50 Billion, in how many years?
Aids is spread by BEHAVIOR. It does not cost money to BEHAVE!
No kidding. It must be because the results from the previous billions and billions have proven so astonishingly successful. A lot has really changed for the better in Africa and elsewhere on the AIDS front.
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This really makes me sick. Why don't they use that money for something useful like returning money to taxpayers in these "dire economic times" or drilling for oil.
Is it still the same?
Can someone please tell me how it is that the majority of people on this planet have not been infected by the AID’s virus? Oh, that’s right. They are not going out and engaging in risky sexual or intravenous drug use behavior.
HELL NO!!!
M. President, I saw that episode of South Park.. it's not true.
How about using about $25 billion to bomb every dictator’s palaces on that benighted continent? I’d support that act of compassion.
Very true. I wonder how Cancer patients feel when they see their government being so aggressive in fighting AIDS.
Thank goodness for the forward thinking vision of our leaders. You never know, I might turn gay, travel to Africa, find me a prostitute, and shoot up some crank while I am having all this fun.
And to think, our leaders could have been wasting their time and our money in dealing with the oil crisis.
It would be fine with me, if every single one of our corrupt leaders would get terminal boils in the crack of their lazy butt’s.
(An added advantage - no one has to prove that the money did one, damn, bit of good - as long as it is handed over with good intentions.)
In AFRICA and other countries to boot!!!
IT ISN’T THEIR MONEY SO WHO CARES? SPEND! SPEND! SPEND!
just be sure you don’t fumble and wipe it out. we gotta good money pit going here, with a depression coming on these scams are going to get harder to pull off.
“Aids is spread by BEHAVIOR. It does not cost money to BEHAVE!”
“Very true. I wonder how Cancer patients feel when they see their government being so aggressive in fighting AIDS.”
I don’t know how cancer patients feel but I can tell you how I as a type #1 diabetic feels! If diabetes research got 1/10th the money AIDS research did we’d probably have cured it by now.
Another multi-billion dollar do nothing program to satisfy the white guilt leftists. What is all this money supposed to do anyway? I don’t think that the AIDS epidemic has been slowed all these many years.
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