Posted on 03/31/2011 3:03:53 PM PDT by kcvl
As Congress struggles to negotiate a budget deal to keep the government running, the head of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) told lawmakers Wednesday that the GOP version of the budget bill would result in the deaths of at least 70,000 children who depend on American food and health assistance around the world.
"We estimate, and I believe these are very conservative estimates, that H.R. 1 would lead to 70,000 kids dying," USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah testified before the House Appropriations State and Foreign Ops subcommittee.
"Of that 70,000, 30,000 would come from malaria control programs that would have to be scaled back specifically. The other 40,000 is broken out as 24,000 would die because of a lack of support for immunizations and other investments and 16,000 would be because of a lack of skilled attendants at birth," he said.
The Republican bill, known as H.R.1, was passed by the House, and would fund the government for the rest of fiscal 2011. It would effectively cut 16 percent from the Obama administration's original fiscal 2011 request for the international affairs account.
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Lie.
Fact: Legalized abortion kills at least 90,000 babies each and every month in the US alone.
That look says I don’t know jack, but i’m good at pulling it out of my ass.
Isn’t the lib’s last line of defense scare-mongering?
It doesn’t get much better than this headline.
Let us assume, without arguement, that the figure of 70 thousand is a correct and quantifiable number as the result of having to do the massive cuts to balance America’s books.
How many are going to die as a result of failing to cut back and having to scrap everything?
only if other countries didn’t step up to take up the slack
America isn’t the only nation with money and these “needy” countries are as populated or moreso than before America started pouring money into them
Oh’ the humanity
Please list every one of the 70,000 by name and address and I will consider your statement.
A most excellent question, one that should be flashed daily on TV monitor screens throughout the industrialized nations. Localized and carefully monitored use of DDT for mosquito control could have prevented millions of deaths without endangering the survival of fish-eating raptors.
We find otherwise intelligent people reduced to the folly of fighting malaria with mosquito nets.
The democrats have absolutely no shame!
A man of decency would not make a vile lying statement like that. People are trying to balance budgets to stay within the tax base available. Clowns like this are throwing everything they can think of at the effort to stop it.
The democrats have absolutely no shame!
A man of decency would not make a vile lying statement like that. People are trying to balance budgets to stay within the tax base available. Clowns like this are throwing everything they can think of at the effort to stop it.
“removal of DDT?”
Millions would be a good guess. Democrats always pull out the old “children the world over will die, and Republicans want to make grandma eat dog food” playbook.
They blow up so fast...
Think you have enough ammunition yet? I don't.
>> 70,000 children who depend on American food and health assistance around the world.
What a creep this guy Shah is. The US effort towards Worldwide charity is boundless, and this two-faced punk is out to make the taxpayer the bad guy?
Go pound sand, Shah.
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