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Obama’s Foreign Aid Price Tag to Exceed $50 Billion
newsmax ^ | Today

Posted on 03/03/2009 1:56:14 PM PST by jessduntno

President Obama’s 2010 budget seeks to double U.S. aid payments to other countries despite a $1.75 trillion deficit and the worst recession in over a quarter of a century.

Obama’s landmark proposal heralds a massive increase in the size of government, and “puts the United States on a path to double U.S. foreign assistance,” according to the White House budget overview.

That would mean annual U.S. foreign assistance expenditures at over $50 billion a year, although it’s not clear yet how quickly Obama intends to attain that goal.

The president also plans to rapidly expand the size of the State Department, in accordance with his strategy of substituting “soft” diplomatic power for the hard power of U.S. military might.

Assuming the Democratic-controlled Congress goes along, the State Department budget next year will jump about 10 percent, to $51.7 billion.

The increased funding would help pay for additional Foreign Service officers “to meet the challenges of today’s world,” Obama’s budget document says. This is in accord with his stated objective during the campaign of substituting “soft” diplomatic power for the hard power of U.S. military might.

Some policy experts are warning, however, that expanding assistance abroad may be a tough sell in the current economic climate.

“There’s going to have to be a strong case made that these investments have concrete, verifiable impact on people’s lives,” Stephen Morrison, director of the Center for Strategic and International Studies’ Global Health Policy Center, tells The New York Times.

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: agenda; bho44; bhoforeignpolicy; foreignaid; obamaisaterrorist; terroristmoney
More shovel ready jobs?????
1 posted on 03/03/2009 1:56:14 PM PST by jessduntno
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To: jessduntno

“The president also plans to rapidly expand the size of the State Department, in accordance with his strategy of substituting “soft” diplomatic power for the hard power of U.S. military might.”

Oh good...cut defense and increse your “soft power’ at the same time...THE MAN IS A GENIUS...


2 posted on 03/03/2009 1:58:03 PM PST by jessduntno (We will never get him out of office peacefully...)
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To: jessduntno

Saying thing that will get me banned here. I swear this will not end well for any of us. God help us.


3 posted on 03/03/2009 1:59:11 PM PST by doodad
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To: jessduntno
More shovel ready jobs?????
Freedom. RIP
4 posted on 03/03/2009 2:07:37 PM PST by ari-freedom (Hail to the Dork!)
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To: jessduntno; SumProVita; HardStarboard; BradyLS; Ernest_at_the_Beach; dervish; Twotone; ...
Added to the List, ping

Obama's 6th week in office:

Obama’s Foreign Aid Price Tag to Exceed $50 Billion. President Obama’s 2010 budget seeks to double U.S. aid payments to other countries despite a $1.75 trillion deficit and the worst recession in over a quarter of a century.
http://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/obama_foreign_aid/2009/03/02/187543.html?s=al&promo_code=7B56-1

Full list at nachumlist.com

5 posted on 03/03/2009 2:08:39 PM PST by Nachum (Documented Obama confusion)
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To: doodad

“This is in accord with his stated objective during the campaign of substituting “soft” diplomatic power for the hard power of U.S. military might.”

Well, I think we have a real good chance of reasoning with people who send women and children into crowded markets with BOMBS strapped to their chests...so who needs military????


6 posted on 03/03/2009 2:08:51 PM PST by jessduntno (We will never get him out of office peacefully...)
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To: ari-freedom

Oh.


7 posted on 03/03/2009 2:09:17 PM PST by jessduntno (We will never get him out of office peacefully...)
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To: jessduntno

Obama has always made a worldwide welfare system his goal in life. Paid for by the US taxpayer of course.


8 posted on 03/03/2009 2:16:14 PM PST by GeronL (Will bankrupting America lead to socialism?)
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To: jessduntno

What is soft diplomatic power?


9 posted on 03/03/2009 2:27:35 PM PST by HollyB
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“What is soft diplomatic power?”

The power exerted by someone who does not know diplomacy with psychotic killers won’t work...or, also known as Chamberlain Syndrome...


10 posted on 03/03/2009 2:29:55 PM PST by jessduntno (We will never get him out of office peacefully...)
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To: jessduntno

An affirmative action president was a bad idea.


11 posted on 03/03/2009 2:32:18 PM PST by coon2000
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To: jessduntno

Bambi’s only Senate Bill to get out of committee was S 2433, a “Global Poverty Bill” with a price tag of $843 Billion.


12 posted on 03/03/2009 2:47:34 PM PST by wtc911 ("How you gonna get back down that hill?")
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To: wtc911

“How you gonna get back down that hill?”

Hombre?


13 posted on 03/03/2009 2:56:25 PM PST by jessduntno (We will never get him out of office peacefully...)
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To: jessduntno
Yep, Elmore Leonard's "Hombre" (pre-Detroit/Florida crime novel days). For my money the best dialogue of any film, bar none. The memorable one liners are in there by the dozen.

Good catch.

14 posted on 03/03/2009 3:56:07 PM PST by wtc911 ("How you gonna get back down that hill?")
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To: HollyB
What is soft diplomatic power?

__________________________________

Henry Kissenger pre-viagra.

15 posted on 03/03/2009 3:58:17 PM PST by wtc911 ("How you gonna get back down that hill?")
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