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

Associated Press ^ | Jun 20, 2002 | Jennifer Loven

[DreamWeaver]

Mmmm, I'm just so happy to have a conservative president I don't know what in the world to do.

Oh, that is good....ROFL..

[Sabertooth]

Using phrases like "pound sand" weakens your position.

He's got you there, KB.

You should have said, "Go away and don't come back until you have an informed, coherent position."

[SteamshipTime]

Ours is a Republican form of govt.

No it's not. It's a social democracy. And a bankrupt one at that.

[weikel]

Click the ruby slippers 3 times and say "Bush is a conservative" "Bush is a conservative" "Bush is a conservative".

[Ben Ficklin]

Maybe you can explain something to me?

If foreign aid is un constitutional, why has there never been a court's ruling confirming that?

[Rowdee]

..."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"....

I'd surely love to know who these bastids are....hopefully Senators Kennedy, Corzine, and Cantwell, and Fitzpatrick, and Clinton are among them. Just think....if these friggin millionaires got together with the one in the White House, they could come up with the 'chump' change to cover the $20 million. I bet the Emperor King President even has a number of cabinet caddies that would chip in!

[Old Fud]

"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."

Sperling unwittingly debunks his own case.

Heck, just moments ago I made some sorta peace w/ a pro-Bush fella.

Might just be me, but tax $ for education in Africa falls squarely under the rubric of "government largesse".

FWIW, I am against capitulation to extortion, i.e. "Either you help us out, or pay the long-term consequences".

[dougherty]

More money down the drain known as Africa. We have pumped so much money into that continent, and it is still a basketcase. Please Dubya, no more.

[Rowdee]

..."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." "...

Bless this little commie bastid's compassionate heart. It's just simply NEVER ENOUGH for these socialists.

And to think....yet another member of the Council of Foreign Relations....that benign organization that has an extraordinarily high % of members filtered through fedgov making policy but they're only concerned with the best interests of Amerika.

[dougherty]

Boosh ain't even warmed up yet. Wait until he starts saying that he wants a good, commonsense slavery reparations plan from Congress.

A few months ago, I would have said you were crazy for that last statement. Now, you may very well be correct.

[brat]

ROFLMAO! Perhaps we should all email the WhiteHouse and ask for gov funded vasoline to go with our benevolence! LOL Make that president@whitehouse.gov

[brat]

Love that new slogan.....its time folks.

[brat]

Palestinian per chance?

[brat]

Don't stay home, vote third....doesn't matter who that is. THAT will send a message.

[Sabertooth]

Maybe you can explain something to me?

If foreign aid is un constitutional, why has there never been a court's ruling confirming that?

Let me explain...

One of the big reasons we have a written Constitution is because under the British Crown, we didn't. The Constitution was written to be understood by the reasonably literate layman. It was never the intent of the Founders to have the Acolytes of Lawyerdom gleaning sheep entrails for hidden meanings in the Constitution.

But that seems to be the way it's gone, hasn't it. Today, we had the Supreme Court rule that mentally retarded murderers can't be executed, overturning their own ruling from thirteen years ago, citing "evolving standards of decency" or some such unconstitutional nonsense. The Judiciary is just one of three increasingly corrupt branches of the federal government, and like the other two, ever hungry for power.

So you go read the Constitution, and tell me where the it empowers the President to give away hundreds millions of dollars to Africa.

[brat]

"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?"........I'm beginning to wonder if they ARE Conservatives.

[Old Fud]

The Judiciary is just one of three increasingly corrupt branches of the federal government, and like the other two, ever hungry for power.

Saber, you are quotable. But infuse buck-naked facts at your risk.

Your page is splendid.

[brat]

Gee.....135 posts and the Bots havn't shown up yet. Could it be that he's finally alienated even them?

[TLBSHOW]

This fall we must retake from the rats all elections everywhere.

[Sabertooth]

This fall we must retake from the rats all elections everywhere.

Why? To what end?

I'm serious. Look at the nonsense at the top of this thread.