Compassionate Bush to cut maternal and child health and family planning

[Karmadillo]

Difficult budget choices must be made when you're running up a trillion dollar tab for war crimes.

http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/05/08/news/infants.php

Infants dying for lack of basics, report says
By Celia W. Dugger The New York Times

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President George W. Bush's budget for the 2007 fiscal year proposes spending $323 million on maternal and child health programs in the United States Agency for International Development, less than the $356 million Congress appropriated last year. Save the Children is supporting a House bill that would instead increase funding.

MacCormack said the amount of such aid has been flat through the past three administrations. While the Bush administration's proposed budget would reduce spending for such programs within the aid agency, administration officials note that it would sharply increase spending on AIDS and malaria, diseases that kill hundreds of thousands of babies and children, particularly in Africa.

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Bush's budget proposal for next year reduces overseas spending on family planning from $436 million to $357 million. In testimony before Congress on April 26, Randall Tobias, the new head of the Agency for International Development and the director of foreign assistance at the State Department, was asked about those cuts.

"It's an example of some very difficult choices that we have had to make," he said. "There has been pressure, particularly in the health area, with malaria, with avian flu and with balancing a number of other considerations."

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[Sugar Smack]

1. It's because he cares so much...

[partylessinOhio]

3. "What - me worry?"

If America had compassion they would kick him out and demand that social needs be funded appropriately.

[Loge23]

2. More $ for the "Culture of Death"

These cuts will go directly for more bullets and bombs.
Anyone out there in their 50's facing retirement, as well as young people, should be very concerned and outraged by the crimes of this administration. These actions have severely hurt our future.

[stepnw1f]

4. More of Bush's "Christian Conservatism"

by the way.... that's an oxymoron.

[Karmadillo]

5. Kick

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