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Bush to Propose Another $100 Million Over Five Years for Education in Africa
Associated Press ^ | Jun 20, 2002 | Jennifer Loven

Posted on 06/20/2002 5:29:42 PM PDT by niki

Bush to Propose Another $100 Million Over Five Years for Education in Africa

By Jennifer Loven Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) - Ahead of a summit of industrialized nations intended to focus on the plight of sub-Saharan Africa, President Bush says America should spend $20 million more a year on education there and will visit the continent next year.

Though the proposed spending boost would double the government's investment on an education initiative in Africa, the $200 million total was deemed modest by critics.

The World Bank has estimated that wealthy donor countries will need to commit between $3 billion and $4 billion annually in additional foreign aid over the next 10 years to achieve the goal of universal primary education in the developing world by the year 2015. Estimates of the number of children in poor nations who have never attended school range as high as 125 million, about two-thirds of them girls.

Gene Sperling, former President Clinton's chief White House economic adviser and now head of the Center for Universal Education at the Council on Foreign Relations, said 75 million of the children out of school worldwide are in Africa.

"The Bush announcement proposes spending $20 million more each year for education in all of Africa, which is the cost of building just one large high school in the United States," Sperling said. "This proposal is very disappointing."

A bipartisan group of congressmen urged Bush, in a letter sent Thursday, to raise U.S. spending on basic education around the world to $1 billion by 2006.

The president planned to announce his travel plans and the new spending initiative Thursday night at a dinner in memory of the Rev. Leon Sullivan, a Philadelphia minister credited with helping end apartheid in South Africa, White House officials said.

On Wednesday, the president promised an extra $500 million over three years to help prevent mothers in parts of African and the Caribbean from transmitting the AIDS virus to their children.

Africa will be a major focus of the Group of Eight meeting that Bush attends next week in Canada.

The White House hopes the new African initiative will ease criticism about U.S. spending on developing nations and projecting a compassionate image of Bush to both foreign leaders and American voters. The $10 billion U.S. foreign aid budget is the lowest among rich nations as a percentage of economic output.

Rock star Bono and Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill toured Africa last month after the singer persuaded the U.S. official to see for himself the importance of debt relief, fair trade and effective aid. O'Neill says the United States is committed to helping Africa, but that aid money should produce measurable results.

The proposed new spending will train more than 420,000 new teachers in Africa, provide more than 250,000 scholarships for girls, and, with help from historically black colleges in America, provide 4 1/2 million more textbooks for children in Africa, White House press secretary Ari Fleischer said.

The president's trip to Africa next year will focus on the benefits of a law that reduces trade barriers to African nations that have market-based economies and policies on reducing poverty, fighting corruption, protecting workers' rights and fostering human rights, Fleischer said.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
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To: Orion
Never mind. Nothing to see here. Keep moving. Vote GOP in '02 and '04. Don't even bother to hold these sell-outs accountable.

They will be rewarded for their move to the left by re-election. Many here have ridiculed those of us who would turn our backs on the GOP for deserting us and who would vote third party.

What is it going to take for Conservatives to get tired of these stupid liberal games that Bush and Co. are playing and hold them accountable?

My view, so what if we vote third party Conserative and put a liberal in the WH for four years. It'll give the GOP four years to think about what they did wrong. Hell, it feels like we have Gore in the WH right now as it is.

Something has to be done to wake up the GOP. Re-electing them is not going to do the trick. They'll feel that we support them and they can go even further left.

101 posted on 06/20/2002 8:35:45 PM PDT by texlok
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To: Ben Ficklin
It is humanatarian aid that is going to Christian/Naturist countries.

That is NOT the job set forth in the Consitution for the Federal Government. You need to read that document ASAP.
102 posted on 06/20/2002 8:42:52 PM PDT by Registered
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To: Ben Ficklin
As I pointed out, mine is but a humble opinion. On the other hand, there is nothing humble about yours. It is unfortunate that you and yours are not in a policy making position.

That your opinion is humble is not an excuse.

When flaws in your opinions are pointed out, backhanded compliments are not an escape.

Earlier on this thread, you accused others of dishonesty. Yet if this is the type of defense you have to offer for your opinion, then reasonable minds may honestly conclude that yours is humble with cause.




103 posted on 06/20/2002 8:43:49 PM PDT by Sabertooth
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To: Registered
Constitution, sheesh, I can spell!
104 posted on 06/20/2002 8:44:11 PM PDT by Registered
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To: Registered
That is NOT the job set forth in the Consitution for the Federal Government. You need to read that document ASAP.

You gotta be kiddin'! There's no "Foreign Naturist Clause" in there somewhere?



Foreign naturists are why I subscribe to National Geographic.

105 posted on 06/20/2002 8:48:14 PM PDT by Sabertooth
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To: Sabertooth
lol.
106 posted on 06/20/2002 8:51:01 PM PDT by Registered
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To: Registered
Now we are right back where we started. You are either for or against foreign aid. If you think foreign aid is un constitutional, then you have to be against aid to Israel. But you have already said that aid to Israel is OK.

Which is it?

107 posted on 06/20/2002 8:54:20 PM PDT by Ben Ficklin
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To: Twodees
We must be expecting an influx of immigrants from Afreica. With this contribution, I expect that they will all vote for Bush and the republicans.
108 posted on 06/20/2002 8:58:51 PM PDT by gunshy
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To: Ben Ficklin
You may be back where YOU started. I know what strategic foreign aid looks like, apparently you do not. Israel is strategic because they are the only Democratic partner in a region where a great majority of our oil comes from.

Common sense pal. But sending millions to Africa? I don't think so..this type of foreign aid is best suited for Missions and Charity Organizations, not my tax dollars.
109 posted on 06/20/2002 9:06:42 PM PDT by Registered
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To: gunshy
No, the plan is for them to migrate and then have the feds give them the money for the downpayment on a home...then they'll vote Republican.
110 posted on 06/20/2002 9:07:53 PM PDT by Registered
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To: Registered
Now we are getting somewhere.

Some foreign aid is ok and some is not. What criteria do we use to determine that?

111 posted on 06/20/2002 9:12:11 PM PDT by Ben Ficklin
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To: Ben Ficklin
what's in our national interest in the criteria. Now go back to bashing Jews and quit repeating every post and question you come up with.
112 posted on 06/20/2002 9:19:26 PM PDT by KantianBurke
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To: KantianBurke
Nobody is bashing Jews. I support aid to Israel and Africa.
113 posted on 06/20/2002 9:22:36 PM PDT by Ben Ficklin
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To: Jhoffa_
They can't even account for millions in aid to minorities in the Chicago and DC area and we're going to send more to Africa. Hey George want don't you give up 90% of your wealth and send it over to Africa. What's that George you said your not going to give up your millions but you still want to keep spending the middle class's money. Thanks George, now I know why I voted for you.
114 posted on 06/20/2002 9:23:22 PM PDT by doc
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To: Registered
As a young man I used to pronounce it "consitution" after the 20th beer or thereabouts. 'Course I was making such brilliant points that nobody noticed my mispronunciation....
115 posted on 06/20/2002 9:27:54 PM PDT by Twodees
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To: RodgerD
This is another example of how the differences between the clintons/gores and the bushes has completely disappeared. This initiative sounds like it was copied from Bill Clinton's 1997 trip to Africa. Wasn't that the trip when the buffoon took (nonsanctioned) communion in a Catholic Church? It's more of GW's "feel-good" politics, which will be a certain loser in 2002.
116 posted on 06/20/2002 9:28:10 PM PDT by Theodore R.
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To: gunshy
Probably this contribution is just the down payment. They'll also get the rest of the package, once hispanics have become the latest constituency to be taken for granted by the RNC strategists. ;-)
117 posted on 06/20/2002 9:30:21 PM PDT by Twodees
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To: KantianBurke; Registered
I guess it is you two who determine what is in our national interest?
118 posted on 06/20/2002 9:36:53 PM PDT by Ben Ficklin
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To: Ben Ficklin
Ours is a government by and for the People. So go pound sand
119 posted on 06/20/2002 9:38:52 PM PDT by KantianBurke
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To: KantianBurke
Ours is a Republican form of govt.

Using phrases like "pound sand" weakens your position.

120 posted on 06/20/2002 9:44:14 PM PDT by Ben Ficklin
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