More Bullets less Bread


From The New York Times

WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 - In one of the first signs of the effects of the ever tightening federal budget, in the past two months the Bush administration has reduced its contributions to global food aid programs aimed at helping millions of people climb out of poverty.

With the budget deficit growing and President Bush promising to reduce spending, the administration has told representatives of several charities that it was unable to honor some earlier promises and would have money to pay for food only in emergency crises like that in Darfur, in western Sudan. The cutbacks, estimated by some charities at up to $100 million, come at a time when the number of hungry in the world is rising for the first time in years and all food programs are being stretched..

..Several Republican and Democratic members of Congress are joining with food aid advocates to convince the administration that food aid should not be cut.
Last month, Representative Jo Ann Emerson, Republican of Missouri, led an effort with more than 30 other legislators that persuaded the administration to release 200,000 tons of grain from a trust fund for emergency food aid to Sudan.
Now she is lobbying the administration to finance foreign food aid programs fully and, if possible, increase the money. "I'm not saying the president is opposed to this, but we haven't had any indication what will happen," said Ms. Emerson, who emphasized that hers was a bipartisan effort.


With all the things that Shrub wants to spend money on, he can't see to feed the hungry? where in the bible does say" Yay, unto thee I say Balance thine budget at the expense of the starving? for yours will be the Kingdom Of Heaven".

So now the only way the starving, marginalized people of the world are going to know America is by our bombs? that we would rather kill them than feed them? George Bush thinks this is fine. He won't let them be taught about birth control so he'll solve the population problems by letting these masses starve to death.

Since we are no longer ponying up the cash for these food programs, and as such no longer in a position to forbid information on "Family Planning" maybe there is a silver lining to all this? "Hey! Good News! America no longer cares about you or your babies! Let me explain birth control to you!".