WASHINGTON In one of the first signs of the effects of the tightening U.S. 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 federal budget deficit expanding and President George W. Bush promising to reduce spending, the administration has told representatives of several charities that it is unable to honor some promises.
Groups have been told they will have money for food only in emergencies like that in Darfur, in western Sudan.
The cuts to charities, 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. [more]
Hey! The millionaires are suffering, too! They need their tax breaks!
And at the other end of the humanity spectrum, you have The Millennium Project, which plans to "significantly improve the human condition by 2015." What a lofty, noble goal! I guess just not as lofty to Bush and his friends as invading a sovereign country to plunder their resources and giving all his millionaire friends tax cuts. But hey, if you can't make the marvelous new global free market work for you--then you deserve to starve, right? Leo Strauss rules!
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