Posted on 06/02/2007 2:13:37 PM PDT by pleikumud
The United States has responded vigorously to this crisis. In 2003, I asked Congress to approve an emergency plan for AIDS relief. Our nation pledged $15 billion over five years for HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment and care in many of the poorest nations on Earth. In the years since, thanks to the support of the United States Congress and the American people, our country has met this pledge. This level of assistance is unprecedented, and the largest commitment by any nation to combat a single disease in human history.
(Excerpt) Read more at whitehouse.gov:80 ...
Sorry George we are going to need that money and a ton more to provide for the new citizens you want. Who is going to feed, provide housing, education and medical for them?
Mr. Bush I think your priorities are misplaced.
U.S. violent crime up 2nd year in a row
Saturday, June 02, 2007
By Dan Eggen, The Washington Post
“...These critics say the increase has been spurred by declines in assistance from the federal government, including more than $2 billion in cuts in Justice Department law enforcement programs since 2002....”
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07153/791024-84.stm
Bush has obviously been listening to Ken.
Well, maybe even Castro had the right idea after all...quarantine is free.
This freaking loser reminds me more of Clinton every day. All he needs is an intern.
Does this mean the World will like us again?
No border-fence for the people who elected him however...
I just don’t understand whats happened to Bush lately. I just don’t.
The UN crowd will probably think less of the United States taxpayers for not giving “enough”.
As Archie Bunker would have put it, so eloquently, “Geezus Meathead, it’s like pouring our money down the terlit.”
It's all going into the pockets of tin-pot dictators so they buy more weapons to kill their citizens anyway.
This is not the way to build a legacy Mr President, this is not the way. You will never win any love from the left, not that it matters, and in the process you will loose your most loyal supporters. And as you can tell, the erosion has already begun.
“Does this mean the World will like us again?”
I get a chuckle when I see lefties say that in these matters,
unwitting puppets of Big Pharma pr campaigns
Bush has been deep in the Drug Co. pockets for years.
In fact his strongest anti-comnpetitive acts relate to drugs, like keeping out imports from our NAFTA partner Canada.
I’d say he’s a deeply corrupt man, but suspect Rove/Norquist feed him with enough lies he might think he’s doing the lesser of two evils.
It’s not just Bush, it’s the entire socialist, uninformed, morally and intellectually bankrupt Congress of the United States.
Try testing them first to see if they really have it, instead of relying on clinical symptoms that mock other diseases.
Who funds the drug cocktails for those infected in the U.S.? Has the number of those testing positive risen here? I wonder if Jesus healed those with STDs? Did they have STDs?
Ahhh, great...A “bookend” legacy plan...
Fabulous...
Lately?
Sorry George we are going to need that money and a ton more to provide for the new citizens you want. Who is going to feed, provide housing, education and medical for them?
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You forgot to mention all the new jails that will have to be built to store them in.
I’d like to know how this new $30 billion compares to federal spending on cancer research here in the U.S.. I suspect it is far more.
Nothing happened to President Bush. He ran on these issues in 2000 but conservatives refused to believe it was true.
$30 Billion will buy a whole bunch of these!
It certainly is. It is also clearly Unconstitutional. It bears not the slightest relationship to the Common Defense and General Welfare of these United States of America. If the President wants to raise money to fight disease, poverty or what have you, overseas, he can appeal for Charitable contributions. But the revenues of the United States are not his personal playthings.
America does not exist for the world. It does not exist as a sacrificial milk cow for humanity. It must either serve its own or it loses any purpose, direction, meaning. We have to put a stop to the cloud and windborne theories of intellectually underdone graduates from Universities that completely lost their own way a few generations back, and embraced the day dreams of crack-brained Socialists pursuing fantasies of things that never were and never will be.
Have we another Yale or Harvard graduate running for President, next year? We had better look long and hard, to make sure he hasn't embraced the fantastic world of the international theorist and "do-gooder." (I put "do-gooder" in quotes, because the tragic-comic reality is that these people almost never actually accomplish something good.)
William Flax
Well stated - $30 billion - when the solution is just to stop having sex or at least unprotected sex or at least sex outside of marriage - now, I’ve stated the answer, no charge.
He's got the Atticus Finch disease....
nah. It’s Beaner-Contra.
All this money will filter back to Mexico to help them immigrate here.
I can't agree more..... except in ...especially in sub-Saharan Africa. (which the money is really for ) gay sex has little to do with the AIDS/HIV pandemic
Simply from a humanity standpoint and especially from a geopolitical strategy, we need to try and stop this crisis from destroying literally whole generations of people.
Where death and destruction reign, the Islamic fascism surely will prosper and grow. I look at this as preemptive help
I don't like the fact it is only our money being tapped, the EU needs to step to the plate big time as well as the rich petro countries. I'm not holding my breath
The President is right here, and we should support him. Here’s why:
(1) Christians and Muslims compete for the souls of the African people, and we must fight the war against Islamofascist terrorism on all fronts. We want the African people on our side and strong enough to fight this war. Treating this epidemic and restoring health and hope to millions gives those millions a strong incentive to support us against our enemies when the time comes.
(2) People with poorly functioning immune systems can harbor and transmit bizarre or deadly diseases including tuberculosis. In a global economy, the health of our people and Americans abroad (including diplomats and troops) depends upon the health of others whom they contact.
(3) Although abhorrent, gay sex is not the “root cause” of human immunodeficiency virus. That virus spreads in five ways:
(a) sexual intercourse with an infected person (including but not limited to sodomy);
(b) contaminated needles (usually intravenous illegal drugs in this country but not uncommon at medical facilities in the Third World);
(c) birth to or lactation from an infected mother (the infected can bear absolutely no blame for this route of transmission very common in sub-Saharan Africa);
(d) blood transfusions (before 1984 in the United States but continuing risk in certain countries); and
(e) consumption of infected meat (probable root cause is some guys eating a chimpanzee).
In sub-Saharan Africa, the most common routes of infection are (a) and (c), and homosexual activity is relatively rare with adultery and fornication common among barbarian [non-Christian] populations. The originating/root cause is probably (e). Abhorrent homosexual activity contributed to the spread of the disease in the early 1980s among the heathens of San Francisco.
Africa needs Christianity, and this program is one tool to make that happen. So let us control our southwestern border and use the money not spent on subsidizing illegal immigrants to give hope to some children.
Quit giving my families money away there W.
You are NO true republican there sport.
Just go away.
I can’t believe how wrong I was twice.
” I don’t like the fact it is only our money being tapped, the EU needs to step to the plate big time as well as the rich petro countries “
Japan’s the second wealthiest country in the world - how much are they ( we ) contributing ?
(#%^$# frigging putz. I want my 2 votes back.)
Why new jails, they will be the new protected class and we must honor and value the new culture they will bring with them. So there is a little law breaking, it will be just part of the new wonderful culture of America.
Sorry but I am really po'd about this. Is there anything he doesn't want to give away?
Still lookin' for that Legacy.
It's probably been incorporated into the Amnesty bill. God knows everything else is in there.
These funds are disbursed in partnership with the host government.
What reason do we have to believe that this money will be effective in actually reducing the epidemic of AIDS/HIV, rather than merely treating the victims (other than, perhaps, in Uganda)?
In other words, on what basis do we believe these programs will plug the leaks, instead of just sopping up an increasing amount of water?
Do you think there would still be an AIDS pandemic if there had never been gay sex among homo sapiens?
I have no idea, but AIDS/HIV rate in Japan is like > .1 %
More people in a square mile of San Fran have AIDS/HIV than the entire country of Japan.
I seriously doubt Japan will be concerned
Hey, isn’t that the “hockey stick” curve! A concidence? I think not. Could federal gov’t squandering money cause global warming ... ? ;-)
At least Clinton didn't try and sell our national sovereignty to Mexico. This POS reminds me more of Carter than Clinton.
Africa needs Christianity, and this program is one tool to make that happen.
I am sick to death of this man, HOW MUCH longer do we have to tolerate him? Every day he sinks to a new low, just when you thought he could NOT do anything more stupid than he did yesterday, he does. Don’t get me wrong, I voted for him, I’d just like to know where the testosterone filled Bush is? What has happened to him? What the bleep is going on with him?
He is controlled by the “Rights in Pink Satin”. He just loves it and will trot to the tune!
Nice plan Jorge, shove it up your....
Presidents from both parties seem to lose touch with the concept of individual responsibility (as opposed to socialist collectivism) and begin to think they were appointed savior of the world, not just president of this free-market republic.
Keeping the Islam fascist at bay in sub-Saharan Africa is in the best interests of the American people......................and the EU, Asia, South America, etc
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