Posted on 05/18/2009 11:22:11 AM PDT by Schnucki
US President Barack Obama has broken four campaign promises on overseas aid and risks reversing the successes of the Bush administration, HIV-Aids activists have claimed.
Key pledges to boost money for Aids funds, education programmes and poverty-reduction schemes have all been missed, the Global Aids Alliance (GAA) said.
The Washington-based organisation said that figures from Mr Obama's May 7 budget request to the US Congress set the administration on a path to breaking its campaign promises to the people of Africa.
A pledge to spend £4.3 billion on bilateral Aids programmes under the Mr Obama's Emergency Plan for Aids Relief (Pepfar) has been shaved back to £3.3 billion.
Mr Obama had also promised to contribute about £1.8 billion on the Global Fund to fight Aids, tuberculosis and malaria, but his budget request fell short by £1.2 billion, the GAA said.
It calculated that this meant that one million people will not receive treatment for HIV, and 2.9 million women will miss out on services to help prevent passing the virus to their unborn children.
"Underfunding these critical programmes has grave consequences, especially during the current global economic crisis," said Paul Zeitz, director of the GAA, speaking in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi.
"President Obama has a moral obligation to demonstrate global leadership on behalf of the poorest and most marginalised people of the world, especially in Africa.
"But by turning his back on those needs, the President is betraying the trust of tens of millions of people around the world."
oThe two other broken promises related to stalling promised payments to fund education, and failing to increase foreign aid as a whole by a rate which will allow the president to meet his commitment to double such assistance by 2012.
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Oh come on. It’s more important that the money go to ACORN.
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Does anyone have a tally on how many campaign promises the One has already broken? It’s becoming the rule, not the exception.
US press not reporting on this?
Won’t be long before the rest of the world sees what we see, an empty suit with empty promises. He hates Bush so much he will kill anything Bush tried to do that was compassionate. What a tool. (of the devil)
And the American people with empty wallets and a massive amount of debt. We are broke.
Obama hates black people!!!!
Africans embarrass Mr. 0 re 0. They’re black, you know. They can’t do anything for him now. Once he committed to the king of sod, all they are worth is whatever the slave trade will bear.
He didn’t much like his daddy either. There has been nothing about islam0bama that has been true or truthful since he was born...wherever, whenever. Only the Shadow knows.
I do think he really resents being part black, so by extension, everything that is black is corrupt, corruptible, corrupted, and he helped.
OTOH, he doesn’t like white people either. Talk about the horns of a dilemma.
He will spend the rest of his life getting even for being born.
A boat is simply a hole in water into which it’s owner simply throws money endlessly.
Africa is the worlds black hole into which the whole world throws its money and watches it sink into an endless rats hole.
Yes, we are, aren’t we?
I’ll expect Bono from U2 (who sat down with Bush and helped to get the HIV commitments) to make an irate statement about Obama’s lack of funding while holding my breath.....
..oh wait, he U2 played at the inauguration. How’s that hope and change working out for them now?
Well, he wouldn’t want to continue anything started by the evil white man BUSH, would he?
He’ll do nothing, then blame the Republicans for the ensuing and media promoted misery and then step in and be the hero with the wonderful programs he has conjured up that cost ever more of our tax money that provide all his heroic solutions to this “crisis”.
Isn’t this sort of what has happened with the ACORN started world wide financial meltdown?
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