Posted on 05/18/2012 1:24:18 PM PDT by ColdOne
President Obama today announced a $3 billion private sector pledge to support agriculture and help feed Africa’s starving populations, saying the U.S. has a “moral obligation to lead the fight.”
“When tens of thousands of children die from the agony of starvation, as in Somalia, that sends us a message we still got a lot of work to do. It’s unacceptable. It’s an outrage. It’s an affront to who we are,” the president said at the Symposium on Global Agriculture and Food Security in Washington.
Arguing that food security is a moral, economic, and security imperative, Obama urged the world’s biggest economies to fulfill their promises to aid the cause financially. The president said additional nations and non-governmental organizations need to “step up and play a role” because government cannot solve the problem alone.
The new shared commitment, which Obama outlined today, aims to raise 50 million people out of poverty over the next 10 years.
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Maybe his pal George Clooney will come up with the money.
The Obama regime has lifted more veils than the entire membership of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Headline says “private sector” but in the speech he is clearly calling for government funding.
Bend Over, Here It Comes Again
When tens of thousands of children die from the agony of starvation, as in Somalia, that sends us a message we still got a lot of work to do. It’s unacceptable. It’s an outrage
Hypocrite asshat..
This from a morally bankrupt shite that supports the slaughter of 10’s of thousand of innocent babies in America. What scum!
Sorry to say it but if we’re really serious about ending African hunger we would have to re-colonize and start from scratch. The African regimes are the ones responsible for everything going on there AFTER colonialism.
All famines are man-made.
We can’t donate food to this cause, because it might be outdated or not cooked in a government supervised kitchen. I guess they will just have to starve.
The new shared commitment, which Obama outlined today, aims to raise 50 million people out of poverty over the next 10 years.
We have been trying to do this since the 60’s. Hasn’t worked yet.
The new shared commitment, which Obama outlined today, aims to raise 50 million people out of poverty over the next 10 years.
We have been trying to do this since the 60’s. Hasn’t worked yet.
Hey Barry...How much did you give your poverty stricken 1/2 bro that lives in a mud hut?
OH...THAT’S DIFFERENT!
Afrika wasn’t starving until Mugabe took over Rhodesia..............
If the climatological and political environments weren't encouraging that, they would have figured it out eons ago. Trying to help them figure it out this late in the evolutionary process is both futile and arrogant.
How long has Africa been hungry?
Why is Africa always hungry?
I know these are rhetorical questions.
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Correct, Look at Zimbabwe, once called Rhodesia. Was once called “The Bread Bread Basket of Africa”. Now it is just a basket case incapable of feeding itself, with a shattered economy and worthless Fiat currency. I have on my desk a One Hundred TRILLION dollar bank note issued by the “Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe”. I was told by the individual I got it from that in the early eighties One dollar Zimbabwe was worth more than a US dollar.
Kenya is in Africa
This is great news. That’s 3 billion less than he can get for his campaign.
And in whose pockets, do you think, that $3B is going to end up?
did the commie obama help out his brother in the hut yet?
For all of my cognitive years on this planet, and I now collect Social Security, people in the United States have been fighting African hunger.
From little Noah's arks piggy banks in Sunday School, to CARE packages, to UNICEF, to the Heifer Project, to late night commercials begging me to "adopt" little Mbwebwe from Dumwacky Africa for fifty cents a week or an entire village for two bucks, I have been implored to help starving Africans every fricking year of my entire life!
And now the great Idi Obama is asking folks to pony up 3 Billions bucks to end all that?
It's like throwing a glass of water into the ocean to make it taste less salty.
Wars and Playing Pirate might be fun, but not on our dime. We've got problems here at home... Whatever bribes and kickbacks liberals get from these folks, it just has to stop. We;re broke. Someone else will have to feed them so they can make more pirates and killers.
Liberals lie...
By a weird coincidence, there hadn’t been hunger in Africa until this year, which just happens to be an election year.
Africa’s only major problems are socialism and Islam.
Thanks ColdOne.
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