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Your tax dollars overseas.(Between The Lines)
ITEM: Foreign aid is "likely to suffer" in President Bush's proposed budget, worried a feature on the Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty website on February 4. The article claimed such aid has long been used successfully. Now, however, "considering its record budget deficit, expensive military campaigns in both Iraq and Afghanistan and the ongoing war against terrorism, the U.S. is looking to trim traditional foreign assistance programs."
BETWEEN THE LINES: How much foreign aid does the U.S. government provide? It is worth a brief review.
Though U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan called the United States (at Notre Dame in 2000) "one of the least generous" nations in the world, that is laughable. During the four decades or so after World War 11, the U.S. supplied more than a trillion ...
- FRC Calls on President Bush to Ban Foreign Aid to Groups Involved In Forced...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire December 20, 2001 700+ words
...policies under Clinton, President Bush has the opportunity...legalize abortion. President Bush's Mexico City policy...them off from U.S. foreign aid. Yet, Planned Parenthood...funding, we are hopeful President Bush will remain consistent...
- Keeping our promise to Africa: President Bush proposed a historic foreign aid...
- Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter Vladimiroff, Christine October 3, 2003 700+ words
...work to end hunger, I was both skeptical and hopeful about President Bush's high-profile trip to Africa this summer. Why would...and Protestants, Jews and Muslims--have rallied behind President Bush's visionary foreign assistance proposals. Grassroots...
- Give 'til it hurts, repeat.(Correction, Please!)(United States foreign aid)
- Magazine article from: The New American Hoar, William P. May 11, 2009 700+ words
...attitude.' "The idea of doubling foreign aid to $50 billion a year by 2012...practice euphemistically known as foreign aid. President Bush doubled "development assistance...acknowledged the widespread failures of foreign aid nevertheless should not be viewed...
- After Bush push on foreign aid: getting results.(Features)(Work & Money)
- Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor April 1, 2002 700+ words
...reverse the years-long slide in American foreign aid. President Bush has proposed increasing foreign aid by $10 billion between 2004 and 2006...Priorities in Washington. Washington's foreign-aid community never regarded President Clinton...
- FOREIGN AID AND DEVELOPMENT:DAVID BECKMANN
- Transcript from: Congressional Testimony July 22, 2009 700+ words
...and individuals working to make U.S. foreign aid more effective in support of global development...points of view. Now is the time for foreign aid reform. President Bush led a major expansion of foreign aid, and President Obama proposes to double...
- A Business Model For Foreign Aid.
- Newspaper article from: Kiplinger Business Forecasts March 19, 2002 700+ words
...Signaling a significant shift in foreign aid policy, President Bush is holding out an extra...Congressional and public support for foreign aid has steadily declined in recent...once a recipient of U.S. foreign aid that was lifted out of poverty...
- Making nations earn foreign aid.
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Tribune (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service) March 21, 2002 700+ words
...income in 40 years. Why has foreign aid, despite the best of intentions...argue that much of America's foreign aid is wasted. President Bush will step into this debate...Wednesday about a plan to increase foreign aid. The U.S. spends $10...
- President's State of the Union Address Cites Vital Role of U.S. Foreign Aid.
- Press release article from: PR Newswire January 24, 2007 700+ words
...s State of the Union address: "The foreign aid initiatives supported by President Bush provide much needed relief to millions...launched by the Clinton administration, President Bush has consistently increased its funding...
Source: HighBeam Research, Your tax dollars overseas.(Between The Lines)