Obama’s Overdue AIDS Bill

NYTimes ^ | July 20, 2010 | Desmond Tutu

[Pan_Yans Wife]

Cape Town

HAVING met President Obama, I’m confident that he’s a man of conscience who shares my commitment to bringing hope and care to the world’s poor. But I am saddened by his decision to spend less than he promised to treat AIDS patients in Africa.

George W. Bush made an impressive commitment to the international fight against AIDS when he formed the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief program. Since 2004, Pepfar has spent $19 billion to help distribute anti-viral treatments to about 2.5 million Africans infected with H.I.V.

[jtal]

Bush’s fault! Oh, wait ....

Actually I am getting to be increasingly convinced that the USA should extend a giant middle finger to the rest of the world.

Sorry, we’re broke. Go find a new sucker.

[Eagles6]

So I’ve spent $7600 apiece on people that I never had sex with to combat a disease that they MAY be infected with because they have poor moral habits and next year my taxes are going to sky rocket.

[Vendome]

Nope. Tutu blames Barry for a potential 1.2 million deaths over the next 5 years.

[Darkwolf377]

If this doesn’t happen it’ll be because Bush promised the money without paying for it—something dems usually don’t give a damn about.

I do find the headline amusing in a sad way—the rest of the world is always presenting the US with bills as if it’s our responsibility. Granted, Bush did promise this, but what I mean is the tone, the attitude.

Not unexpected is how Obama is praised right away, and Bush is given a kind of grudging nod.

[kcvl]

I thought the Clinton Global Initiative was taking care of the Aids in Africa problem. /s

“He (Tutu) is a supporter of the magazine New Internationalist, which campaigns for social and environmental justice worldwide.”

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list of contributors[18]

Greater than $25,000,000

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation[15]
The Children’s Investment Fund Foundation
UNITAID
Centenary Group International
Frank Giustra, Chief Executive Officer, The Radcliffe Foundation[15].

$10,000,001 to $25,000,000
AusAID
Stephen L. Bing (did not give in 2009[15])
COPRESIDA-Secretariado Tecnico
Fred Eychaner
Tom Golisano (did not give in 2009[15])
The Hunter Foundation[15]
Government of Norway[15]
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in 2008 (did not give in 2009[15])
The ELMA Foundation
Theodore W. Waitt

$5,000,001 to $10,000,000
Nationale Postcode Loterij
Haim Saban and The Saban Family Foundation
Michael Schumacher
The Wasserman Foundation
S. Daniel Abraham, founder of Slim Fast[15].

$1,000,001 to $5,000,000
S. D. Abraham
Absolute Return for Kids (ARK)
Mohammed Al Amoudi
Alltel Corporation
Nasser Al-Rashid
Smith and Elizabeth Bagley
The Eli & Edythe Broad Foundation
Richard Caring
Gilbert R. Chagoury
Citi Foundation (did not give in 2009[15])
Clinton Giustra Sustainable Growth Initiative - Canada
Victor P. Dahdaleh & The Victor Phillip Dahdaleh Charitable Foundation
Robert Disbrow
Dubai Foundation (did not give in 2009[15])
Elton John AIDS Foundation
Entergy
Mr. Issam M. Fares & The Wedge Foundation
Wallace W. Fowler
Friends of Saudi Arabia
Mala Gaonkar Haarmann
The James R. Greenbaum, Jr. Family Foundation
Robert L. Johnson
Howard and Michele Kessler
Michael and Jena King
Lukas Lundin
MAC AIDS Fund
John D. Mackay
Lakshmi N. Mittal
Open Society Institute
Viktor Pinchuk
Presidential Inaugural Committee
Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund
The Al Nahyan Family of The United Arab Emirates
Paul Reynolds
Robertson Foundation
Bernard L. Schwartz
Walter H. Shorenstein
Arnold H. Simon
Bren and Melvin Simon
Amar Singh
Michael Smurfit
Harold Snyder
State of Kuwait (did not give in 2009[15])
State of Qatar (did not give in 2009[15])
Sterling Stamos Capital Management, LP
The Streisand Foundation
Suzlon Energy Ltd.
Swiss Reinsurance Company
Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office
The Alix Foundation
The Government of Brunei Darussalam
The Howard Gilman Foundation
Rockefeller Foundation
The Roy and Christine Sturgis Charitable & Educational Trust
The Sidney E. Frank Foundation
The Sultanate of Oman[15]
The Wal-Mart Foundation
T.G. Holdings
The Walton Family Foundation

$500,001 to $1,000,000
AIDS-Life
Malini Alles
Bank of America Foundation
Simon P. Barcelo
Frederick Baron and Lisa Blue
Richard C. Blum
Susie T. Buell and Mark Buell
The Sherwood Foundation
Cisco
Clinton Family Foundation and William J. Clinton
Confederation of Indian Industry
Lewis B. Cullman
Duke Energy Corporation
Elena Franchuk Anti-AIDS Foundation
Global Artists, Inc.
Brian L. Greenspun
Hewlett Packard Company
Patricia A. Hotung
ICAP Services North America
Irish Aid
Walid A. Juffali
Dave Katragadda
Peter B. Lewis
Rajendra Vora
[edit] Controversial donors
Blackwater Worldwide training center[19]
Freddie Mac mortgage company[19]
Amar Singh (politician)[19]
Gilbert Chagoury[19]

http://tinyurl.com/26aqfad

[SirJohnBarleycorn]

Nope. Tutu blames Barry for a potential 1.2 million deaths over the next 5 years.

Who knows how many Haitians died because of Barry's complete lack of executive ability to promptly accomplish any real-world undertaking like organizing assistance to a disaster area.

Tutu can cluck all he wants, but none of it will stick to Obama because he is so far above and beyond such considerations.

[TangoLimaSierra]

Notice how Tutu gives props to Bush only now because he can use it as a club to get more from Obammy.

[Jack Hammer]

Oh, my goodness, - the notion of an American president spending Americans’ hard-earned tax dollars on the betterment of Americans? How novel and how unjust.

Hey, America, just gimme yer munny and shut the f*** up!

[algernonpj]

AIDS in Africa was, and may still be, diagnosed using a check list of symptoms. X number of symptoms checked off = AIDS diagnosis. The problem is that many of the symptoms are also found in the tropical diseases and VD’s.