George Bush promises corrupt Tanzania President more U.S. taxpayer’s billions.
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Bush Says Billions for Africa – Baloney for America!
by David Duke
I just watched CNN International.
George Bush has been on tour in Africa.
He is boasting about giving away billions of dollars of American taxpayers’ money.
The money is supposedly going to fight AIDS in Africa, but most of it will likely just end up in the hands of corrupt African despots.
Here is a typical example of the corruption as reported about Tanzania, one of the nation’s George Bush recently visited.
It has been reported that billions of dollars have been stolen, and continue to be siphoned, with impunity while the people cannot even afford basic necessities including medical service and education for their children. The Bank of Tanzania also is involved in a major scandal involving billions of dollars which have disappeared into thin air and remain unaccounted for. Its highest-ranking officials have been implicated in the scandal, yet the government has done nothing about it. (Wikipedia -Tanzania)
Bush has promised to double the 15 billion dollars already given for anti-AIDS programs. He has now committed America to double that amount and give the incredible sum of 30 billion dollars over the next five years.
As I watched CNN, poignant video of AIDS-infected Africans with tears flowing down their cheeks, flooded the TV screen.
The media has universally applauded this massive giveaway of the American people’s money. They promoted the giveaway by showing heart wrenching pictures and video accompanied by an announcer’s voice filled with empathy and emotion.
The scenes moved me as they would anyone with a human heart.
But, they didn’t convince me that it is moral to send billions of dollars of tax money overseas to people that have never paid a penny in American taxes.
Before you consider me heartless, let me tell you why I am opposed to this kind of government foreign aid.
I don’t think that the federal government has the right to forcibly take your money and send it to a foreign nation, no matter how much the government tries to justify the charity. There are millions of worthy charities in the world. What right does the government have to take the hard-earned money of Americans and give it to anyone?
No one gives you a choice about paying taxes. If you don’t report your income and pay your taxes you will likely be sent to prison.
You are given no choice in the matter.
George Bush and most of the politicians who promote this theft are millionaires. If they want to send their own funds directly to Africa, that’s their right. But I think they have absolutely no right to literally steal your money and send it to their charity of their choice.
We could apply this principle to many areas of American life, but let’s consider for a moment the horrible condition of health care for millions of Americans. Millions of hard working, taxpaying American citizens cannot afford or simply don’t qualify for or cannot get affordable medical insurance for themselves and their families. A recent article in the New York Times headlined “Study Finds Cancer Diagnosis Linked to Insurance.”( February 18, 2008) It revealed that those who don’t have private medical insurance are at least twice as likely to receive diagnosis of the most deadly cancers when they are difficult to treat and cure. Here are some excerpts from the article:
ATLANTA — A nationwide study has found that the uninsured and those covered by Medicaid are more likely than those with private insurance to receive a diagnosis of cancer in late stages, often diminishing their chances of survival.
…The widest disparities were noted in cancers that could be detected early through standard screening or assessment of symptoms, like breast cancer, lung cancer, colon cancer and melanoma. For each, uninsured patients were two to three times more likely to be diagnosed in Stage III or Stage IV rather than Stage I. Smaller disparities were found for non-Hodgkins lymphoma and cancers of the bladder, kidney, prostate, thyroid, uterus, ovary and pancreas.
This study means that lack of American funds are costing hundreds of thousands of American lives each year.
I believe that it is immoral to send the American people’s own money overseas while hundreds of thousands of American lives are being lost because of inadequate funds.
We also must also look honestly at the AIDS epidemic in Africa and be very aware of why there is an AIDS epidemic.
AIDS is not a universal disease such as cancers of the breast, prostate, bladder, kidney, or thyroid. Although lifestyles can affect these cancer rates, anyone can contract these diseases, even those who lead the most sober and responsible of lives. On the other hand, the overwhelming factor in AIDS infection and transmission is grossly irresponsible sexual conduct and secondly, illicit drug use.
AIDS is not simpl about sex out of wedlock, it is not about a young woman and young man falling in love, having sexual relations and creating a family in a relationship of love and fidelity. It is about rampant and pandemic sexual promiscuity and irresponsibility, behaving more like debauched rutting warthogs than human beings. By now, even the remotest communities of Africa know that chronic promiscuous and unprotected sex can cause AIDS.
In the recent words of George Bush, “AIDS has killed practically an entire generation in Africa.” Why? It is because millions of irresponsible people indiscriminately had sex in the fashion of wild animals instead of behaving like caring and responsible human beings.
I know that what I have said here is quite harsh. But, no one can deny its truth. AIDS just doesn’t happen like a lightning bolt from the sky or even like a malarial mosquito biting someone; it is a direct result of one’s behavior. If you drink enough arsenic you will die. If you frequent and have indiscriminate sex in the age of AIDs, you will die.
Most of the hundreds of thousands of Americans dying from cancer have not behaved irresponsibly. On the contrary, the working people who could not afford insurance have obeyed the law, worked hard for their families, conducted themselves responsibly, and paid huge amounts of taxes into the American government during their lifetimes. The tax money they paid is one reason why many couldn’t afford insurance in the first place.
So we have a scenario where hundreds of thousands of decent Americans are suffering and dying while at the same time government sends billions of their tax dollars to African despots.
In my last campaign for the U.S. Senate in Louisiana I won 65 percent of the European American vote against a powerful, 18 year, Democratic incumbent. One reason why working people in Louisiana gave me a landslide of votes was my outspoken opposition to foreign aid. On the campaign trail I often related the story of a woman I met who worked as desk clerk at the Holiday Inn in the Louisiana city of Alexandria.
Her name was Lydia and she told me that she was a young widow with two children, mightily struggling in her efforts to raise them alone. She pulled out a copy of her paycheck and showed me the huge slice of it taken out in federal taxes.
She then showed me an article from the local Alexandria paper reporting on the billions of dollars sent overseas in foreign aid. She looked at me with tears in her eyes and said, “I just can’t understand this, Representative Duke, I work all the time and I can hardly feed and clothe and shelter my own kids, and I read that a good chunk of my families’ much needed money goes overseas to people and to despots who have never paid a penny in U.S. taxes.”
She asked, “How can they be allowed to do this?”
I have no answer. And I realize that the politicians that do this and the media that supports foreign aid also have no answer. It is interesting how generous politicians get with other people’s money.
If George Bush thinks what is happening is so terrible, that millions of people are dying, if he is really so worried and conscientious about it, let him take a big chunk of his fortune and give it to Africa, and if he wants let him try to convince other wealthy Americans to do the same. But, he has no right to rob you of your money for his preferred charities.
No matter how many pictures of crying AIDS-infected people shown on TV, no one can justify forcibly taking hard-earned money from struggling American families and sending it overseas.
If George Bush wants to send his personal money to Africa he has every right to do it. But Bush, Clinton, Obama and McCain have no right to steal your money and mine to send to their charity of choice, not while a single American suffers.
This has been David Duke.
I look forward to being with you again very soon.
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