Posted on 04/28/2010 6:22:29 PM PDT by bushpilot1
In its budget request for the State Department for the 2010 financial year, the Obama administration proposed significant increases in funding for US arms sales and military training programmes for African countries, as well as for regional programmes on the continent, and is expected to propose further increases in its budget request for the 2011 financial year.
The 2010 budget proposed to increase foreign military funding spending for Africa by more than 300 per cent, from just over US$8.2 million to more than US$25.5 million, with additional increases in funding for North African countries.
Major recipients included Chad, the Democratic Republic of Congo Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Liberia, Morocco, Nigeria and South Africa.
The Obama administration requested US$278 million to cover the cost of AFRICOM operations and Operation.
(Excerpt) Read more at allafrica.com ...
The main reason I see zero raising the ante on aid to a bunch of third world shitholes is because he has a special place in his heart for his homeland.
In order to be the president of the United States, you have to be a natural born citizen so your loyalties are to this country. If you were born in, say, Kenya, your loyalties would be for Africa.
Thus, Obama's spending increase in the ability for Africans to slaughter themselves rising from $8.2M to $25.5M is calculated this way:
25.5 - 8.2 = 17.3
17.3 / 8.2 (the difference divided by the original amount) = 2.1097 ~ an increase of 211%.
The new total is 311% of the original amount. It is not an increase of 311%.
Please, do some rudimentary research before writing your "facts", and learn some basic math. Please.
There is nothing in this world that is not subject to contradiction and dispute.
Note: this topic is from 4/28/2010.This is a re-ping. Included in Zero's list are Algeria, Chad, Libya, and Sudan.
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