Obama: US Will Double International Food Aid

[babylonsister]

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.8e5b6c259c1f31a748f8b67d55c59aff.831&show_article=1


US to double international food aid: Obama
Apr 2 01:11 PM US/Eastern


President Barack Obama announced Thursday that US food and agriculture aid to Africa, Latin America and other poor regions would double to more than one billion dollars because of the economic crisis.

Obama said that he would start work with Congress in the coming days to give 448 million dollars in immediate assistance to vulnerable populations -- such as those in Africa and Latin America.

He added that he aimed to "double support for agricultural development to over one billion dollars so that we are giving people the tools they need to lift themselves out of poverty".

[Forkboy]

1. You forgot to mention Michelle for Brent.

:)

Good on Obama for this. :thumbsup:

[babylonsister]

2. I'm trying my best!

:evilgrin:

Yep, this is great news! :thumbsup:

[babylonsister]

3. MICHELLE O!

:hide:

[avaistheone1]

4. Talk about highjacking a thread.

Shame on you when people are truly starving. All you care about is stupid fashion and appearances.

[babylonsister]

6. Umm, I started the thread, and got your attention, which made you

respond, thus giving this a kick for a very worthy cause. So thank you, dear.

[fujiyama]

5. Good

likewise start cutting military aid to regimes like Israel and Pakistan (not to mention Saudi Arabia, Egypt, etc)...

It doesn't matter if we throw food around and yet at the same time continue to fund war and destruction at the same time, either directly by invasion or occupation or indirectly by despotic proxy states.

[firedupdem]

7. Excellent News! and

Go Michelle!

[babylonsister]

10. Ha!

:thumbsup:

[redqueen]

8. That is great news. Britain should join us in that.

[babylonsister]

11. ROFL! Beautiful nt

[firefox28]

9. Reform US practices too

US aid is highly conditional on neo-liberal reforms and deregulation of developing nations' markets. This has forced communities into poverty despite the amount of aid. You can increase food aid, but your fixed conditions will cancel out the objectives.

[cliffordu]

14. I'd prefer a set of links to prove your statements -

last time I looked Bush had all that faith based bullshit tied up in aid of just about any kind.


Neoliberal my ass.

[mkultra]

12. NOT GOOD ENOUGH

i will only except a one million fold increase in food aid. anything else is unacceptable.

[FrenchieCat]

13. Excellent! Of course, this thread won't get much in way of notice....

It ain't about some stupid ass bow story that even the media won't touch....
Of course, they won't touch this story either. :(