Posted on 06/25/2002 7:47:05 PM PDT by mafree
We free people of America should also see some results. We keep pumping money into these drab, immoral, war torn third world countrys and we see NO results. The only thing that happens is, the corrupt leaders get richer. It's bad enough the United Corrupt Nations lays all the blame for the worlds problems at our feet and now George wants to help.
Well maybe this isn't a bad idea after thinking about it. If we sink enough money into that aids infected, farm stealing, racist, tire belt country, maybe some of our REPARATIONS beggers will go back to the beloved home land and leave this country they hate so much..
to $200 million over five years -- the funding devoted to an initiative I put forward last year to improve basic education and teacher training in Africa. (Applause.)
I've asked Congress this year to provide an additional $55 million in funds to help African nations on the front lines of our mutual war to defend freedom.
Quit spending our damn money on your damn applause lines
The PC black left on the hill (i.e., the Congressional liberal Black Caucus) finds it very uncomfortable to discuss not only Mugabe and the situation in Zimbabwe, but also the black on black slavery in the Sudan, and the other dictatorial states across the continent. They find it much more comfortable to talk about countries like Kenya where the standard of living approaches that of the west, and South Africa where reforms have brought that country into the 21st Century (and where the World Cup will probably be in eight years).
If you bring up Mugabe and his atrocities, the PC folks will quickly change the subject. They don't know how to defend themselves on this issue - they don't want to talk about it. The Cynthia McKinney's will defend Mugabe and the black racists in Zimbabwe, but even she is in the minority when it comes to those discussions.
Bush can't get to it in this forum; it wouldn't have been the most prudent course of action. I would strongly suggest (and it wouldn't surprise me if Rice and others have already suggested this) that Mugabe is very close to joining the Islamists on the short list of terrorist-enemy states that the War on Terror is going after.
There is a political minefield involved; Bush would have to tread lightly, because, not only would he have the CBC on his back, but the bandwagon Dems in the mainstream would jump on, and use this against Bush in particular and the GOP in general.
No, it is a matter of a bright light being shown upon the roach of the dark continent - if the light stays on long enough, it will be an easy matter to take a rolled up newspaper and swat Mugabe into oblivion.
Not until the corrupt leaders in general and Mugabe in particular have been ousted and exposed for the vermin that they are.
We should be so lucky. No, Bush is taking a decent tact - by dealing with the issues he mentioned, he is forcing the black liberals to agree with him, and work with him on positives. They can't get away with focusing on any percieved negatives as easily. This is actually very shrewd on Bush's part.
The poverty pimps who are out for reparations won't go away, and you can certainly forget about any of them going to Africa - they wouldn't go, even if all the expenses were paid for them to leave. (and it's not back to Africa -- I would bet money that 90+% of the whiners have never set foot on the continent; let alone outside the United States)
You must love this line from the speech eh?
Very well stated.
Our markets and our currency is continuing to crash in value, and our supreme leader is pissing away our money in third-world sh!tholes.
---max
I figure (and admittedly this is off the top of my head) there are about a half-dozen or so who make it their business to glom as much as they can; everyone else be damned...
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