Obama’s USAID Chief: Cutting Budget Will Kill 70,000 Children! (How Many Will Die When We Go Broke?)

As Congress struggles to negotiate a budget deal to keep the government running, the head of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) told lawmakers Wednesday that the GOP version of the budget bill would result in the deaths of at least 70,000 children who depend on American food and health assistance around the world.

 

“We estimate, and I believe these are very conservative estimates, that H.R. 1 would lead to 70,000 kids dying,” USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah testified before the House Appropriations State and Foreign Ops subcommittee.

 

“Of that 70,000, 30,000 would come from malaria control programs that would have to be scaled back specifically. The other 40,000 is broken out as 24,000 would die because of a lack of support for immunizations and other investments and 16,000 would be because of a lack of skilled attendants at birth,” he said.

 

The Republican bill, known as H.R.1, was passed by the House, and would fund the government for the rest of fiscal 2011. It would effectively cut 16 percent from the Obama administration’s original fiscal 2011 request for the international affairs account.

 

Comments: 

 

“Liberals kill their babies by the millions but cry if their “public assistance” is cut off. Losers from Day 1 of their lives. Cut the budget and then there will be fewer losers to waste the public money of HONEST, DECENT TAXPAYERS.”

 

“Federal spending was 3% of GDP in 1930. Now it’s 25% and this guy says cutting it to 22% will kill 70,000 children. It is so outrageously absurd I can not find the words… That people would actually consider it… that people would respond this way to the honest attempts of elected officials to address a crippling deficit is, I must admit, disheartening. Heaven help us. Is all intellectual integrity lost?”

 

“Just think how many kids could have been saved on the $1,500 weekly budget for liquor on Pelosi’s Air Force Plane. That was the cost reported by the New York Times and Washington Post. Just imagine how much money would have been saved if she didn’t have a government plane at her beck and call when she was speaker of the house. Just make Congress pay the real cost of their healthcare, subsidised meals and haircuts and you’ll have more money to save 700,000 children world-wide. You either pay off your debt or go bankrupt. How many kids can you save when your bankrupt?”

 

“The American people aren’t stupid. They know this story is garbage, fear mongering and lies.”

 

“These liberal bureaucrats can use all the bombastic hyperbole they want but all they do is demonstrate a lack of understand regarding a very basic concept regarding our fiscal situation, which is that WE ARE BROKE.”

 

“This is a characteristic liberal democrat response. Whenever they have nothing of substance to offer, they attempt to Distort, Deflect, Divert, or Destroy. There is absolutely nothing included within the GOP’s proposed cuts that would kill anybody!”

“No more guilt. The democrats have played that card for the last time. We’re broke and sinking. I want to save my own children. Let the UN do what the UN should do. Let the ‘spectator’ nations that have been riding the US’ coat tails pick up the slack.”

 

“Isn’t that just a bit ironic? Obama is the biggest cheerleader for abortion no matter how far along the Mom is and now they want to tell us they care for kids. Really? How about the millions you kill each year with my tax dollars?”

 

From:  http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/03/31/shah_gop_budget_would_kill_70000_children

Obama-messiah’s promises of political transparency: bald-faced lies to the American people

What kind of “messiah” would look the American public in the face and lie to them?  The Obama-messiah. 

 

You can listen to his pre-election promises of complete “political transparency” on spending and taxation issues on the above YouTube.com video.  Hear him state that “sunshine is the greatest disinfectant,” and that he will make sure every American will be given the opportunity to know exactly what’s in every spending bill, before the bill ever goes to Congress, so that we can decide whether or not we want our representatives to vote for the bill.  

 

Then, compare those grandiose promises to the Obama-messiah’s actions.  Within the first month of his administration he has worked to push through the largest spending bill in world history.  And not only have the American people been kept completely in the dark as to what it contains, but so have virtually every one of the people’s representatives in Congress.   Yes, even our own representatives don’t know what’s in this 1,100 page spending bill they just passed.

 

Instead of political transparency, the Obama-messiah has used raw bullying and scare-mongering tactics to get his “stimulus” bill passed in record time.  Instead of making sure our representatives understood the bill in its entirety, he brought in only the few key liberal representatives he knew had the power to arm-twist the rest of the House and Senate into voting for the bill.  Not one representative ever got to read that bill.

 

What’s more, he kept virtually all conservative representatives completely out of the loop.  They weren’t even allowed into critical meetings on the bill.

 

And instead of putting the bill on the internet in a searchable format as he promised, so the American people could search through the bill and see for themselves what kind of spending it entails, he instead embarked on a national “scare tactics” tour, telling us that if our representatives didn’t vote for it immediately, the sky was going to fall.

 

Ahh…the transparency.  Ahh…the bipartisan leadership.  Ahh…the return to truth and goodness and honest leadership in government.  Ahh…the Obama-messiah.

 

Sieg heil!  Sieg heil!  All hail the siege of the incredible lying Obama-messiah!  (Ad nauseum). 

 

– Spencer

 

$800 billion spending bill awash in broken promises

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=88931

 

Obama’s hurry to pass stimulus dashes pledge to ‘transparency’

 

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Posted: February 15, 2009

12:00 am Eastern

 

By Drew Zahn

© 2009 WorldNetDaily

 

In the era of YouTube accountability, President Obama has been caught pledging one course of action before the election, while pursuing another once in power.

 

In campaign comments captured on the popular Internet video site, Obama promised that as president, “When there’s a tax bill being debated in Congress, you will know the names of the corporations that would benefit and how much money they would get, and we will put every corporate tax break and every pork barrel project online for every American to see; you will know who asked for them and you can decide whether your representative is actually representing you.”

 

The candidate’s promise can be viewed at the worldnetdaily.com link above.

 

The president’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, also known as H.R. 1 or the nearly $800 billion stimulus package, however, contains massive amounts of funding widely viewed as pork barrel spending, without any account of who will benefit or who proposed it.

 

“What is most troubling is how some of the federal agencies will distribute the massive amounts of funding provided for in this bill,” said Rep. Jerry Lewis, R-Calif., on the floor of the House. “For instance, agencies will use funding in the House-passed bill for these endeavors: $30 million for salt marsh harvest mouse habitation restoration in the San Francisco Bay; $8 to $10 million for oyster restoration in the Gulf of Mexico; $600 million for the acquisition of plug-in vehicles, which are not made or currently available in the United States. Sadly, the list goes on and on.”

 

An ABC News report looked at the bill and noticed other line items that look suspiciously like earmarks, citing, “$1 billion for a zero-emission plant in Illinois, $8 billion for high-speed rail projects and, while not explicitly named, a Los Angeles-to-Las Vegas Magves magnetic levitation rail line that Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., backs.”

 

In a Houston Chronicle editorial, Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, called H.R. 1 “a Trojan horse for billions of dollars in pork barrel spending. Democrats have said repeatedly that there is not a single earmark in this bill. In fact, the stimulus bill itself is one giant earmark, a massive collection of unnecessary spending, pet projects and kickbacks to well-heeled contributors.”

 

Even Democrats, as WND has reported, have conceded the presence of pork in the stimulus package. On the floor of the U.S. Senate, Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., took it upon himself to speak for the American people, boldly declaring that, when it comes to pork, “the American people really don’t care.”

 

Obama’s captured YouTube comments also promise, “When there’s a bill then ends up on my desk as president, you the public will have five days to look online and find out what’s in it before I sign it, so that you know what your government is doing.”

 

On Tuesday, Rep. Lewis made a motion on the floor of the House to instruct House conferees not to sign the final conference bill unless the text has been made available in “an electronic, searchable, and downloadable form at least 48 hours prior to their approval.”

 

In a recorded vote, Lewis’ motion was passed unanimously, but Democratic House leadership didn’t make the bill’s language available until around 11 p.m. on Thursday, only 10 hours before the House met to consider the bill, not the promised 48. Further, the bill – though now passed by both House and Senate – is still not available in a searchable format.

 

The broken promise made GOP minority leader, Rep. John Boehner, R-Ohio, irate. His comments, also available on YouTube, can be seen here:

 

“Here we are with 1,100 pages,” Boehner said on the floor of the House, “that not one member of this body has read, not one.”

 

He continued, “What happened to the promise that we’re going to let the American people see what’s in this bill for 48 hours? But no, we don’t have time to do that.”

 

And while the American people only have a few days left – and not the promised five – to review the bill, the joint explanatory statement of the committee of conference, which summarizes the bill, can be read here on the House.gov website. The actual text can be read here on the Library of Congress website.