Posted on 08/08/2011 10:09:10 AM PDT by BigFinn
DADAAB, Kenya -- Hundreds of thousands of Somali children could die in the country's famine unless more help arrives, a top U.S. official said Monday as Washington prepared to announce $100 million in new famine aid. To highlight the crisis, the wife of Vice President Joe Biden visited a refugee camp on a patch of desert in eastern Kenya where tens of thousands of Somalis have massed. A drought has turned into famine because little aid can reach militant-controlled south-central Somalia. Jill Biden is the highest-profile U.S. visitor to East Africa since the number of refugees coming across the Somali border dramatically increased in July. Biden arrived in a C-130 military transport plane and said she wants to raise awareness and persuade donors to give more.
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Why can’t the super-rich Saudis and the Emirates take care of their fellow Muslims instead of the West that they are trying to destroy?
What are they doing with all their wealth besides building tall, useless towers? Perhaps Dubai can build an indoor ski resort for the Somali refugees to cool off.
Why are we in debt again?
We could use that cash at home. Let the muslime oil rich folks feed their mess over there. And let those honorable
local pirates spread some cash around. Just stop throwing money around like it’s free.
Supplying terrorists for the fight.
see my post 13.
typically done via Dept.of Agriculture.
(same place food stamps come from)
obama's goal is to move them all to Minneapolis and Nashville and put them on Foodstamps here.
***$100 million in new famine aid. ****
Sounds like a lot whenyou are paying for it but when you realize that it is a drop in the bucket compared to the Pigford settlement it is not as bad.
Interesting they choose now to announce this, as the markets tank due to spending. They are idiots or organized wreckers.
let’s keep feeding them until there are a million more starving
Better question.....who gets the $$? and how much of the $100 mil actually will get to the starving masses? Not much, methinks......
Amen to that one!!! I feel horrible for those people, but, we can’t keep doing this. We don’t have the money anymore. And besides we all know that most of that money will never make it to where it was needed. Most of it will go to line there leaders, police and military pockets.
We are broke. A $100 million here and there, next thing, we are ringing up a trillion in added debt !
Maybe John Couger Mellonhead , Neil Young and Willie Nelson can have a Farm Aid concert for Somalia.
Matt Damon can MC and Angelina Jolie can adopt all their kids.
Save the somalian children so they can grow up and be pirates. Let the somalian pirates give their loot to those who need it. Of course they won’t they want to live like mugabee..let the “little ones” starve, their motto, not mine.
Our “Give a Damn” is busted.
Do our selfserving elected REALLY believe these starving children will get the money? I think not.
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