Comments on: Bush Seeks $30B To Fight AIDS In Africa

President Urges Congress To Double U.S. Commitment To AIDS Program Over Next 5 Years

[jsilver2th]

I'd love to see the paper trail for where the $$$ actually end up...

[lastdance2]

RE :
barbaraf4 - coffeehead

Well said - Well defined

Lastdance

[ubrew12]

This is very good news and a step in the right direction, especially since such little money can do alot of good there. American's should not underestimate the amount of goodwill gestures like this generate toward the U.S. Definitely, it will do more to combat Al-Qaida than the invasion of Iraq will do.

[barbaraf4]

I realize 30 billion dollars sounds like a lot of money, but we can't be sure what the amount of the kick-back is. It is just so easy - Bush has unlimited funds and he deals with those crooked little dictators in those dust and fly-ridden countries. The petty little dictator (the foreign one, not Bush) makes a deal and then pockets maybe 20% of the money, while Bush and Cheney split the balance.

[jetranger7]

JUST HEARD THAT THE BUSH ADMINSTRATION IS GOING TO LET APPROX. 2-MILLION IRAQI- REFUGEES INTO THE UNITED-STATES, ON TOP OF OUR ILLEGAL IMMREGATION PROBLEM, THAT WE CAN'T CONTROL NOW,, IT WAS ON THE MSNBC WEB SITE, PEOPLE I DO FEEL SORRY FOR THE REFUGEES,, BUT WHEN THE HELL ARE WE GONNA WAKE UP, WHERES THESE PEOPLE GONNA GET JOBS, WILL THEY KNOW OUR LABOR LAWS OR BE TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF BY US CORPORTATIONS AND PAID VERY LITTLE, WE CAN'T TAKE CARE OF OUR OWN PEOPLE,, HOW WE GONNA HANDLE 2-MILLION IRAQI REFUGEES PLUS ALL THE ILLEGALS FROM DOWN SOUTH,,,, I SEE A BIG HUGE CRIME WAVE SWEEPING THIS COUNTRY ! WERE IN DEEP TROUBLE SOMEBODY HELP !

[coffeehead-2009]

okay - here's our money. All they have to do is TAKE it back and buy the condoms....


As of June 2004, the Government Accounting Office estimated that more than $1 billion in taxpayer money had been wasted due to illegal overcharges by contractors in Iraq, since the onset of the war. Furthermore, experts say that once the total is calculated correctly, the losses could very well add up to billions more.


Auditors found potential overcharges of up to $61 million for gasoline that a Halliburton subsidiary delivered as part of its no-bid contract to help rebuild Iraq's oil industry.


Up to $236 Billion
Employees, stockholders and pension plans saw hundreds of billions of dollars in stock value
evaporate after business scandals and charges of corporate malfeasance rocked Wall Street and
the country in recent months.


while troops rough it in tents, hundreds of preferred Halliburton KBR employees reside in five-star hotels like the Kempinski in Kuwait with fruit baskets and pressed laundry delivered daily.
"It costs $110 to house one KBR employee per day at the Kempinski, while it costs the Army $1.39 per day to bunk a soldier in a leased tent," DeYoung said.
"The military requested that Halliburton move into tents, but Halliburton refused."

Documents obtained by CBS News show an auditor repeatedly flagged improper fees for soldiers' laundry. At one site, taxpayers reportedly paid $100 for each 15-pound load of wash - $1 million a month in overcharges.

[hypnotoad72]

Sky10AZ - oh come on. Our being kind to other nations by helping them financially will lead to good karma in return. The day we can no longer pay back $9 trillion because the corporations couldn't pay their taxes while offshoring jobs to every other country because it costs less.

[victoriarum]

It's just a matter of time.

Pray for Peace, God Bless Each of You.

[long_rider]

I don't where he is going to get the money? I hope he will take it from the DoD budget, or maybe raise the tax on gasoline.

This president is the pinacle of stupidity.

IMPEACH THIS IDIOT.

[perception5]

The GREAT AMERICAN ECONOMY ....... The Greatest Story Never Told by our Corrupt Liberal MSM Wolfpack

America is a very rich country thanks to our President and his policies. The defcit is falling like a rock thanks to record "corporate tax receipts" and payroll taxes coming from 10's of millions of Americans that work for "Big Business".


PEPFAR is in it's 4th year. I have personally been to Kenya and Uganda to the Points of Service for this program..............Great thiings are being done in very poor areas.

Americans should thank our "Big Drug Companies" because they are completely engaged in this great effort.

The Big Drug Companies provide us NGO's with "brand name drugs" at very large discounts called "Global Pricing" of which all NGO's pay the same price. Everything is very "transparent".

Our President has done more for Aids victims than anyone else on the planet. Unfortunately our President is a Conservative Republican and Americ's press is Corrupt and Liberal.

I just thought folks should know the truth. I doubt if we will ever see 60 minutes, 20-20, CNN Presents ever do a story with our President regarding this great program.............and I doubt anyone will ever know how much Big Drug Comanies contribute......................REALLY SAD