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It must have been an amazing amount of research to determin exactly how many little children will die because of our budget deficit. Do you think this shah guy has their names? I mean if he can give the exact numbers, he must have their names and addresses too.
I may be wrong here, but I think our budget deficit has a negative impact on our economy. Which in turn has a negative ompact on our job market. That might explain why so many people in our Country are out of work. democrats 100% refuse to stop spending money, no matter what the cost to our own Country. I don't want to see little poor children die in any country, especially not in ours. Wouldn't it be in the best interest of the entire world for us to fix our broken economy so more people can find a job? A strong United States is in a much better position to help out the countries who need assistance.
By Josh Rogin - FP
As Congress struggles to negotiate a budget deal to keep the government running, the head of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) told lawmakers Wednesday that the GOP version of the budget bill would result in the deaths of at least 70,000 children who depend on American food and health assistance around the world.
"We estimate, and I believe these are very conservative estimates, that H.R. 1 would lead to 70,000 kids dying," USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah testified before the House Appropriations State and Foreign Ops subcommittee.
"Of that 70,000, 30,000 would come from malaria control programs that would have to be scaled back specifically. The other 40,000 is broken out as 24,000 would die because of a lack of support for immunizations and other investments and 16,000 would be because of a lack of skilled attendants at birth," he said.
The Republican bill, known as H.R.1, was passed by the House, and would fund the government for the rest of fiscal 2011. It would effectively cut 16 percent from the Obama administration's original fiscal 2011 request for the international affairs account.
Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-IL) pointed out that H.R. 1 would provide $430 million for the International Disaster Assistance (IDA) account, which is 50 percent below the president's fiscal 2011 request and 67 percent below fiscal 2010 levels.
Shah said that such a cut "would be, really, the most dramatic stepping back away from our humanitarian responsibilities around the world in decades." The IDA account supports 1.6 million people in Darfur, so halving the account would place 800,000 people at risk, he said...
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