Thank you. Bush and his staff are remarkably deft in their initiatives. The AIDS program is a vehicle that is not only righteous morally, but will open an avenue into third world countries that can effectively break the resource-distribution hold that existing corrupt and criminal syndicates and institutions - the UN, World Bank and IMF to name a few - have built since WWII. The Mentoring program of at risk kids bypasses the systems, unions and people that fund and operate the diseased and fraud-ravaged education system corrupted by the American left.
It is far superior to pay $40 billion to fund a DOE appropriation initiative that serves to empower parents, move money and decision making power to States and localities, and direct the design and construction of a more innovative, effective and locally managed K-12 franchise than it is to spend $30 billion to enable a socialist, special interest seized, result-poor and fraud ridden status quo.
The AIDS initiative is a strategic security foray - a diseased ravaged populace can never pursue liberty and economic growth, and can never depose the corrupt leaders who are conspiring to kill America and Americans.
America's huge investment in the Marshall Plan, with it's accompanying pricetag, has kept a relative peace on the European Continent for nearly 60 years - a remarkable historic feat. Our efforts around the world keep AMERICANS safe, provide the security of our commercial activity and international trade, elicited foreign investment in OUR markets and businesses, and provided the platform from which America grew to the political, moral and economic wonder it has.
The myopic and craven world of Pat Buchanan - has never, does not now, and will never - exist. The blessings of America mandates concurrent obligations and responsibilities, and the pursuit of policies and investments that cultivate a milieu of physically secure, politically stable and economically engaged Nation States is indispensible to how we Americans, going forward, will live freely, safely, prosperously and in God's service. There's no other path.