Bait and Switch

[Theophylact]

$15 billion to fight HIV/AIDS? While you were following Bush's African photo-op, here's what Congressional Republicans were doing.

Now you see it, now you don't...

[Bob The Great]

dude they cut Bush's legs out form under him. I'm sure he'll fight for it though.

[Blueliner]

and I thought the neohippies were the ones wanting us to cut aid to other countries and spend it at home? guess there's no pleasing them

[crouse]

apparently someone "missed" this part of the article..........

Representative Jim Kolbe, chairman of the subcommittee on foreign operations, said that in his view Congress would be unlikely to allocate the full amount because neither initiative will be fully operational by the time the fiscal year begins.

The amounts "assume you have full-blown programmes up and running on October 1, and that's not the case," he said.

[Mr. Goodbytes]

The article doesn't specifically say any amount directly going to Africa has been cut. Yes, someone didn't even read past the first paragraph. Amazing title though: "Congress to slash Africa aid."

Jamie Drummond, executive director of Data, a pressure group set up to campaign for debt relief and African aid, said that the two new programmes together could represent a massive change in America's commitment to Africa, increasing US aid spending to that region from $1bn now to $5bn in 2006.

I thought grammar teachers insisted on having titles that at least had some relevance to their document.

Disconnect between the legistative and executive branches of Government it would seem.

Or Bush making yet another international boo boo.

[M_Six]

To continue:

But he warned that the trip "was set up in quite a dramatic way to see if the president will see through on his promises".

Mr Drummond said it would be ironic that, while Mr Bush was in Africa, "the House foreign operations subcommittee was actually deciding to slash those promises, to break them if you like".

The problem with this article is that it is all speculation. Let's wait and see what really happens before we start throwing tomatoes.

[cryptoguy]

Agree with M_Six. This is what the government tells us, that's the official version. Maybe the Congress is using those 15 billion to buy each one of them a private airfield.

[cryptoguy]

Agree with M_Six. This is what the government tells us, that's the official version. Maybe the Congress is using those 15 billion to buy each one of them a private airfield.