[smc]

Maybe the money can be used to buy the Kenyan's a better airport crash alert system

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/736969/posts

[Ciexyz]

I'm pleased that Mr. Bush is committed to reducing disease and famine and cultivating energy, clean water and forests in Africa. Kudos to our Prez for sending 190,000 tons of food to drought-stricken Southern Africa. Makes me proud to be an American.

The rock-throwing Dems make me sick.

[Satadru]

The Bush adminstration sells out again. We all know Africa will be just as poor and unhealthy after spending this money. Maybe Bush can use some of that money to go get a sanity check. What a liberal idiot.

[Bikers4Bush]

And the government wonders why we think our taxes are too high or why people would cheat on their taxes.

Let them fix their countries themselves and maybe they'll have an appreciation for what they have.

[Dakmar]

It will go to feed the hungry in six countries: Zimbabwe, Malawi, Zambia, Mozambique, Lesotho and Swaziland.

We should not give ONE LOUSY PENNY to Zimbabwe until Mugabe is overthrown.

[Bigg Red]

....the most pressing environmental issue facing the world today," said Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass.

That would be the flatulence issuing from your face, Kerry, and from the faces of the other Congressional Rats.

[HaveGunWillTravel]

Let's see, they're kicking white farmers off their land to the point that they are going to starve. They are spreading HIV by raping women and babies by the thousands. Now we're going to give them money? Maybe instead of reparations, the descendants of slavery in America should be paying the US government a special tax for liberating them from both a hopeless situation in Africa where their own people sold them into slavery in the first place and then from the pro-slavery confederacy. I know, let's not give away (waste) 4.5 billion.

[Area51]

Anyone Remember this? "Help is on the way"!

What they forgot to tell us was that the help was amnesty for Illegal Aliens, and CASH send to other Countries.

Jorge Delano Bush Continues the Great Taxpayer funded Givaway...

[glc1173@aol.com]

Jorge Bush evidently doesn't mind taxing hordes of the now-downsized Red Nation citizens who voted him in to pay a bunch of Africans. This kind of crap is why we are voting Buchanan in 2004 or just not voting for president at all.

[07055]

Zimbabwe said it had an urgent need for the money as it was running short on bullets needed to kill the remaining white farmers in the country.

[cynicom]

More borrowed money entering a black hole, never to be seen again.

[Militiaman7]

They can find the money to give to Africa, but not for Retired Disabled American Vets

[Hugin]

Bush just vetoed 5 billion in spending for stuff like aid to farmers and helping local fire departements saying it would increase the deficit. But we can afford to throw the same money down those African ratholes? Stupid and hypocritical.

[Ben Ficklin]

Allow me to over symplify and generalize: To know where we are headed in foreign aid, it helps to see where we have been.

Post WW 2 is the first period of FA. Not many are going to dispute the positive results associated with that.

The second period of FA is the Cold War. This period was very abusive and out of control. Not to say that were no worthwhile results in this period but we all know that some of that money was nothing more than bribes. But then it was a matter of "competing" with the Soviets.

The post Cold War period was much better in that FA was reduced and insistence on reforms were attached and enforced.

We are now in the post 911 period and FA is going to rise. Although we may be willing to overlook some hanky-panky, we should mainly insist that reforms continue to be attached to aid. To give Bush credit, he initially refused to consider raising FA levels but he lost that battle. It was only at his UN speech in Monterrey that he indicated that he would. He also used that speech/announcement to knock down any suggestion of a UN tax.

[Tacis]

It is good to see that the America-bashers in the Senate are alert and on duty and not just out there soliciting bribes and "admonishing" those caught taking them.

Wait 'til you see the criticism from the theives in the third world. No matter what amount the President calls for, to the third worlders, it is not enough. You can see some pimply faced fairy in a London based NGO changing the numbers in his press release to demonstrate that the US contribution is inadequate.

Only 5 billion? Hell, Mugabe's senior staff you consume that in 3 to 6 months. The European theives will take 20% of the gross amount in very tiny chunks, but, it will go into European bank accounts to pay for summer vacation villas in Corfu and not to any needy in Africa.

What about this? There are Agrican diamonds, gold and oil. Why doesn't this wealth, native African wealth, go to help the Africans? Why does the entire third world believe that it is OK that this African wealth goes into the pockets of a group of African individuals and a few international corporations but that America has an obligation to dump some of its wealth down the African sewer.

Where are the African-Americans? Why aren't they helping their African rerlatives. The African Americans were lucky enough to have been rescued and sent to the new world. Shouldn't they have some responsibility for their very less fortunaute tribesmen who were left behind and suffer greatly for it?

[Black Agnes]

I seem to remember a comment of yours regarding aid to Africa....

[anymouse]

$3.3B for $12.8M suffering Africans?

I say we take the advice of the late Sam Kinison and give them all one way tickets to the European Union. The Europeans seem so concerned about the plight of Africans, but don't seem to be willing to spend their own money to help them. Maybe after all those suffering Africans leave Africa then it will be a better place. Just like it will be such an improvement when we dump more "welfare" into the biggest ghetto in the World. Wonder if they want slave reperations too. /sarcasm

[dfwgator]

If Bush sends money to Mugabe, how can he now justify continuing the Cuban embargo?

[RonF]

All foreign aid in these areas should be disbursed as goods, materials, or services (GMS), with as little cash as possible. No local government structures should be involved; the above GMS should be distributed directly to local populations via US-staffed and managed organizations, although such organizations should use as many members of the local population as possible who are not employed by the local government. American regulations regarding non-discrimination against age, gender, or religious belief should be observed when hiring local personnel.

Any complaints about us importing our culture along with our aid should be ignored, although reasonable requests regarding dress codes, use of alcohol and/or tobacco, importation and use of pop culture items such as music and videos, movies, etc., should be followed, as much of these that are allowed in America offend most Americans.

No person should be restricted in wearing of anything they wish to wear that symbolizes their religion. If the locals want to wear a hijab or burka, fine. If they don't want to, fine. If anyone wants to wear a crucifix, or a Star of David, or a yarmulke, etc., they should do so. Self- or state-appointed guardians of morals who try to enforce shar'ia or tribal customs on unwilling persons should be shot.

All Americans staffing such enterprises who wish to do so should arm themselves to the teeth, receive training on use of the same, and carry such arms as they choose at all times. American military personnel should be present to secure all sites where such activity is going on.

Hm, that's a start. Anyone else?

[INSENSITIVE GUY]

TALK ABOUT PORK!THIS IS ANOTHER MONEY PIT!