A shame worth expounding upon-slashing the wrong type of foreign aid.

Northside Storm · Apr 20, 2011

http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-de...11/apr/14/us-foreign-aid-cuts-further-battles

According to the US Global Leadership Coalition (USGLC), the US is to slash funding for foreign aid and international affairs programmes by $6.5bn as part of the last-minute compromise agreed in Congress last Friday. This is not quite the 19% reduction sought by congressional Republicans, but the deal drops spending below 2009 levels and affects nearly all of the programme areas covered by the international affairs budget, including those related to health and economic assistance.

Among the cuts counted by the USGLC are: $377m from US contributions to the UN and other international organisations, $160m from migration and refugee assistance, $140m from climate adaptation initiatives, and $80m from development assistance programmes.

A further $40m will be cut from the Peace Corps, which marks its 50th anniversary this year. And federal support for the US Agency for International Development (USAid) is set to decrease by $39m. Support for the UN Population Fund will be cut to 2008 levels, and contributions to the Global Fund to fight Aids, TB and malaria will remain at 2010 levels.

While the spending deal reduces support for voluntary family planning programmes by $73m, it does not reinstate the Global Gag rule, which would have blocked funding to organisations in developing countries that give help or advice on abortions.
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a shame. The irony is palpable. Let's slash funding for the Peace Corps---but let's keep the elephant in the room!

http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docview.asp?did=1000623507&fid=1725
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US President Barack Obama's budget proposal for fiscal year 2012 (which begins on October 1, 2011) keeps foreign aid for Israel, Egypt, and most other recipients unchanged, but it is not clear what the House of Representatives and the Senate will leave in.

The budget proposes $3.075 billion in US military aid for Israel, $75 million more than in fiscal year 2011. The aid proposal is based on the US-Israeli understandings signed on August 16, 2007. US military aid is set to increase by a further $25 million to $3.1 billion in fiscal year 2013, and remain at that level through 2018, assuming that the US foreign aid program remains as is. Israel is also due to receive $20 million in aid for integrating refugees.
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DonnyMost · Apr 20, 2011

It's easier to pick on the weak sisters in the budget (NASA, foreign aid, teachers/elderly/children/immigrants lol?) than it is the 900lbs gorillas...

Invisible Fan · Apr 20, 2011

What's 6.5 billion to the military? A carrier?

It's funny how AIPAC makes it seem like Obama's the worst thing to "Israeli interests" since Hitler, but we seem to be pouring more money and resources to that sinkhole of a region.

Yet another disappointment by Obama...

CrazyDave · Apr 21, 2011

Maybe Canada will take up the slack for us in these tough times.

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