Re: PING: Question for RSPW Pro-Life Warriors Janis and Rafiki...
- From: syvyn11 <robhorine711@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2011 12:47:10 -0700 (PDT)
On Apr 2, 3:24 pm, Jason <janklowic...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
OK, I get you don't care about the proposed food stamp cuts or
medicaid cuts, ( or for that matter the medicaid cuts already enacted
by Jan Brewer which have KILLED PEOPLE...)
But what do you think about this?
USAID Administrator: GOP Budget Cuts Would Lead To The Deaths Of
70,000 Children Globallyhttp://thinkprogress.org/2011/03/31/usaid-administrator-gop-cuts/
Yesterday, the House Committee on Appropriations Subcommittee on
State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs held a budget hearing
on the US Agency for International Development (USAID), the primary
agency in the government responsible for dispensing humanitarian aid
and assisting global development efforts.
As Foreign Policy’s Josh Rogin notes, one moment of the hearing
provided a particularly startling fact about H.R. 1, the House
Republicans’ bill for continuing appropriations to fund the
government. USAID administrator Rajiv Shah explained to Rep. Charlie
Dent (R-PA) that the agency was committed to its mission of battling
global poverty, but that H.R. 1 would severely gut its ability to
battle easily preventable deaths among children — and even lead to the
deaths of as many as 70,000 kids globally. Dent, apparently unmoved by
Shah’s testimony, immediately asked to change the subject:
SHAH: We estimate, and I believe these are very conservative
estimates, that H.R. 1 would lead to 70,000 kids dying. Of that
70,000, 30,000 would come from malarian control programs that would
have to be scaled back, specifically. The other 40,000 is broken out
as 24,000 who would die because of a lack of support for immunizations
and other investments, and 16,000 would be because of the lack of
skilled attendants at birth. [...] There’s a way to do this that
doesn’t have to cost lives. [...]
DENT: Can I just quickly change subjects?
Watch it: [VIDEO]
H.R. 1 includes a $120 million funding cut to USAID’s annual budget,
which amounts to a 9 percent cutback. Additionally, the bill would cut
30 percent from development assistance, 10 percent from global health
and child survival programs, and a 29 percent cut from the Millennium
Challenge Corporation. When viewed next to the deep cuts to Head Start
and other domestic programs related to children, it appears that the
right isn’t just waging war against kids at home, but kids all over
the world — balancing budgets on their backs due to a recession they
played no part in.
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Gentlemen, the floor is yours.
Jason
WOW! Demonize much? Any cut is a draconian cut. You just can't
get by with spending one less dollar.
.
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