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Upgrading the power in Africa [with our tax dollars] while downgrading our power in the U.S. Makes everybody even. We can't have more than anyone else. Let's wait to see how much of the $7 billion actually goes to its intended purpose. Of course, the administrators and project managers will first have to purchase a fleet of Mercedes Benz Sedans and SUV's so the have vehicles to check on the progress of the project and then complain that $7 billion wasn't enough cash.
Meanwhile he is following through on his promise to make our bills skyrocket in the old USofA. What a leader.
(CNN) -- U.S. President Barack Obama pledged $7 billion Sunday to help combat frequent power blackouts in sub-Saharan Africa.
Funds from the initiative, dubbed Power Africa, will be distributed over the next five years. Obama made the announcement during his trip to South Africa, the continent's biggest economy.
"Access to electricity is fundamental to opportunity in this age. It's the light that children study by, the energy that allows an idea to be transformed into a real business. It's the lifeline for families to meet their most basic needs, and it's the connection that's needed to plug Africa into the grid of the global economy," he said.
This from the guy who punished Americans for his own sequestration by closing White House tours. What a piece of something smelly. What erks me the most is that I am writing a big check to the IRS this month. Glad to know it'll go for infrastructure improvements... somewhere else. Or, porn, wine and royal suites.
Neither is pizzing away $7 billion US taxpayer dollars in the middle of the greatest recession since the Great Depression.
Oh, and GWB did more to combat HIV in Africa than any other president, btw. Which I don't agree with. We have enough problems in this country, we don't need to be throwing the taxpayers money away on Africa, and more than in the ME.
We're not in the middle of a recession. Reducing HIV is good for all of mankind, including the US.
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, tell us working stiffs how taking money from us and gifting it to an african crony improves our lives.
