Actually, Bush’s AIDS relief is a case in point as to why America’s education is going backwards despite Bush boosting funding.

You see, Bush came up with all of this wonderful aid, and then forgot to actually put in any internal controls whatsoever to make sure that it actually went to the people it was supposed to help.

This includes basic bookkeeping.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16352949/

Clinton never dreamed of doing as much because Clinton actually knew something about Africa, charities with the word “Christian” in their names, and managing money.

According to WaPo, In his State of the Union address in 2003, the president promised $15 billion to fight AIDS over the five years ending in September 2008 — then the largest financial commitment by a nation to battling a disease.”

So as soon as Bush took office, he promised the largest amount of money EVER, by any country, to fight AIDS or any other disease.

Clinton nor any Democrat never DREAMED of doing this much.

So now Bush asks to up the ante to “increase the funding for the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) to $30 billion over five years, beginning in October 2008″. He wants to DOUBLE the already record-breaking funding towards eradicating this disease.

So you guys know you have to spin this? How? You attack the abstinence component. Right out of the gate, you insinuate that that’s what drives all of this, and that they are “christofacists”. So the people fighting AIDS in Africa are fascists, eh? Hey, if it suits your purposes.

But ONLY 7% of the money can credibly be said to go to abstinence-based programs, says the same WaPo article.

You are willing to ignore one of the biggest philanthropic American commitments EVER, because a small portion of it goes to one piece of a PORTFOLIO of efforts.

I hate Bush. hatehatehate him. But stuff like this is why libs get on my nerves.

- http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/30/AR2007053001403.html

Yes, China, and other industrialized or industrializing nations in Asia and Asia minor are investing in African nations, and those investments are used by the local power structures to both extract natural resources, and displace those populations interferring with that extraction (Niger, Chad, Sudan, etc.).

With Africa’s long history of disrespecting property rights, starting with slavery, and including genocide, war (to seize property) and rape, I don’t see those cultures improving to the point of viability, at least not viable enough to compete with the cultures that are encroaching on them – muslim, Chinese and Indian.

Thinking back on my post about the need to occupy these nations to allow capitalism to take hold, I guess Europe tried that when they made many of these nations their colonies, set up viable industries, only to see them seized, then collapse. Perhaps even occupation won’t work.

I agree that sub-Saharan cultures could change, but it would take an effort similar to the end of war, decades long, occupations of Japan, Germany and South Korea, just as it will take in Iraq and Afghanistan (although these modern muslim nations should be easier than Japan and S. Korea were in the 1940’s and 1950’s).

Unfortunately, the libs made such a fuss about the US being in Iraq and Afghanistan, that it seems unlikely the US will occupy the Sudan or other war-torn sub-Saharan nations. The UN doesn’t seem to be able to do anything, and NATO has no strategic interests in sub-Saharan Africa, as it did in the Balkins. Even the African Union seems unwilling / unable to help.

Because of the aforementioned, the current trends show that muslims from North Africa, and Indians and Chinese from the East will more likely displace the sub-Saharan African cultures, rather than the existing cultures develop / mature on their own.

wow, kilo is a stalker. Not getting any, hey, sissy?

Nice of you two racist bigots to ignore the slavery and mass-murder of the Europeans in “settling” Rhodesia, making it the bredbasket of Africa for the good of Europe through the unpaid slave labor of the native population. it’s bad enough that the two of you cackle over your lies of white supremacy, but to cherry-pick the facts shows you to be mere animals, well beneath the Africans your kind gleefully subjugates and murders, for the wake of profit. now everybody can see how morally bereft the right is, as if it weren’t all too obvious with your mass-murder in the Middle East. the Europeans deserved to lose everything, including their lives, for turning that part of Africa into a killing field. the fact that they won’t go back is a testament to their cowardice, and your posts are a testament to your ignorance and lack of human qualities. you are filth.

After taking some time to further consider your comment on no differences among cultures that would effect the potential for capitalistic reform and growth, I still disagree, and here are two examples of why:

1) Rhodesians did not respect the property rights of the Europeans, who made Rhodesia the breadbasket of Africa. The Rhodesians seized the property from the Europeans, then failed to sustain the productivity of those assets, leading to a collapse of their economy.

2) South African native peoples blamed the Apartheid government for the poverty among themselves, and after overthrowing the Apartheid goverrnment, they now have twice the number of their own living in poverty.

The first fundamental tenant of capitalism is property rights, which means:

1) No person can be someone else’s property – sub-Saharan Africans have long sold each other into slavery, so it is a part of their culture that is the first and fundamental reason capitalism will never succeed. It allows them to dismissively injure, rape, enslave and kill their own in the staggering numbers witnessed in Rwanda and Darfur.

2) No person has claim to the wealth created by someone else’s hands (since you don’t own that person, you don’t own the fruit of their labor) – Refer back to the previous examples in which the Africans seized the developed properties of Europeans, only to mismanage and destroy that developed wealth. Even Zimbabwe (formally Rhodesia) is trying to lure Europeans back to re-develop those lands by offering them leases, but the Europeans aren’t stupid – no one will develop a property that others will take back later. This offer is further evidence of African culture not respecting property rights, therefore, capitalism will not succeed in Africa.

If you simply observe the behaviour of the sub-Saharan Africans, you will see that any person who creates wealth is eventually a target of theft / murder, so capitalism is antithetical to sub-Saharan African culture.

Sub-Saharan Africa is a disaster, and like Hurricane Katrina, all you could hope to do is extract refugees, then pave over the disaster area.

The writing is on the wall – muslims, Indians and Chinese will eventually populate the area, displacing the native population.

The White House may become like some many corporate settings….
In no way, should at any time a Corporation should be able to place its corporate/non-profit logo on any part of the White House/Peoples House!!

I am ashamed of this promotion display of logo’s! Regardless of the cause to inform people, a logo is not the way to go.

Whats next, Apple Computers – Mattel – Sony – WALMART???

Sponsered by…..or provided by….. STOP THIS!

The White House is OUR house, not BUSH’s nor a LOGO to be sponsored by anything or anyone! end of story!!

http://mpinkeyes.wordpress.com/ 2007/ 11/ 29/ john-murtha-admits-the-surge-is-working/

Probably won’t see that posted here either.

Comment by CaptainMantastic — December 1, 2007 @ 11:30 am

success is not possible, since the war was lost before it began. Mass-murder can never be called successful, except by sociopaths. if Iraq is ever left to its own devices, without the constant warring between an agressive, illegal invader and the country’s patriots (bolstered by oppotunistic terrorists, not there before the invasion), it may achieve a success by its own measure, but will never be a success by the measure of immoral, greedy, sociopathic American businessmen. Only when it has been bled dry of all oil and riches will american businessmen consider it a success. Democracy? That’s the last thing the oil barons want.

I honestly don’t believe education is enough at this point – there is something seriously wrong with these various cultures in sub-Saharan Africa, in which there is so little regard for human life, even their own.

I predicted long ago that muslim, Indian and Chinese cultures will eventually displace the existing sub-Saharan cultures, because it is now their manifest destinies. These cultures have far greater population densities, without the same levels of disease, poverty and war, and being more viable, will succeed over their less viable neighbors.

Sorry to disappoint you, Tracy. Trolls — like you — get nothing but one-liners. I’ll check back in the middle of the night to see if you respond to this.

I would do all of the above – abstinence, condoms, etc., but I don’t think any of it will help sub-Saharan African cultures that are in free fall collapse. Both South Africa and Rhodesia were strong and growing economies, until the Europeans were driven out of power and off their developed lands, then both nations saw a dramatic increase in the population living in poverty.

Until their populations drop to sustainable levels, sub-Saharan African nations will continue to live in deplorable conditions of poverty, disease and war, and any attempt to interfere with that trend will only lead to a prolonging of the misery.

Comment by Jason M. Hendler — December 1, 2007 @ 7:45 am

beautifully put, Jason Hitler, you righties never fail to elevate your insecurity to the highest levels of paranoia, all the while stealing elections, blocking citizens from voting, and overturning the laws that protect us from the very fascism you are so enthralled with. You have done nothing to even slow the fascist takeover your masters have so skillfully put in place, with your help. thanks for nothing, traitor.

Clearly, libs are trying to downplay the HIV rates in Africa (as well as the devastation to the jungles by the slash and burn land clearing practices that occur in Africa, as it does in the Amazon – even Al Gore was brave enough to state that). If you can’t be honest about the state of a problem, then you will NEVER solve it, which upholds my beliefs that libs don’t want solutions, just divisive issues on which to run for elected office, so they can then institute their agenda of commie-fascist rule.

NOT true last month 38 US troops died ,same as this month BUT more foreign troops killed

so its all bollocks + the firgures will probably go up yet anyhow