> From: John D. Giorgis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For example..... ... > AIDS Fund
SOTU2003: 15 Billion Pledge <<http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/01/20030128-19.html>> " I ask the Congress to commit $15 billion over the next five years, including nearly $10 billion in new money, to turn the tide against AIDS in the most afflicted nations of Africa and the Caribbean. " Now2004: <<http://www.globalaidsalliance.org/sotuanniversary.html>> " The White House sent at least three letters to the Congress in 2003 which insisted that the amount of funding the President requested, while a billion dollars less than what Congress had authorized, was perfectly adequate. Fortunately, members from both sides of the aisle rejected this contention and approved $2.4 billion for global AIDS, TB and malaria programs, a 16% increase over the White House proposal. Moderating the highly unilateralist direction of the President�s AIDS plan, they increased the amount for the Global Fund by 175% (from $200 million to $550 million in 2004). These increases are important, though they still far short of what programs could effectively utilize and what the US promised in AIDS spending legislation. " And of that Missing 14.5 Billion Promised by The Prevaricator in Chief: <<http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/29/politics/29AIDS.html>> " President Bush plans to scale back requests for money to fight AIDS and poverty in the third world, putting off for several years the fulfillment of his pledges to eventually spend more than $20 billion on these programs. " The Lying Rootless Shrubbery is Exposed Yet Again. --- I Pledge Impertinence to the Flag-Waving of the Unindicted Co-Conspirators of America and to the Republicans for which I can't stand one Abomination, Underhanded Fraud Indefensible with Liberty and Justice Forget it. -Life in Hell (Matt Groening) _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
