How the Administration in D.C. can increase $pending to the PLO for the poor by Billions,
And yet want to charge the poor that are in these FEMA trailers along the southern states,
Where's the logic in this mess????
Could someone please explian this to me.......
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MR. PRESIDENT, I'M HEADED TO MEXICO
David M. Bresnahan
April 1, 2006
NewsWithViews.com
Dear President Bush:
I'm about to plan a little trip with my family and extended family, and I
would like to ask you to assist me. I'm going to walk across the border from
the U.S. into Mexico, and I need to make a few arrangements. I know you can help with this.
I plan to skip all the legal stuff like visas, passports, immigration quotas
and laws. I'm sure they handle those things the same way you do here.
So, would you mind telling your buddy, President Vicente Fox, that I'm on m
way over? Please let him know that I will be expecting the following:
1. Free medical care for my entire family.
2. English-speaking government bureaucrats for all services I might need, whether I use them or not.
3. All government forms need to be printed in English.
4. I want my kids to be taught by English-speaking teachers.
5. Schools need to include classes on American culture and history.
6. I want my kids to see the American flag flying on the top of the flag
pole at their school with the Mexican flag flying lower down.
7. Please plan to feed my kids at school for both breakfast and lunch.
8. I will need a local Mexican driver's license so I can get easy access to
government services.
9. I do not plan to have any car insurance, and I won't make any effort to
learn local traffic laws.
10. In case one of the Mexican police officers does not get the memo from
Pres. Fox to leave me alone, please be sure that all police officers speak
English.
11. I plan to fly the U.S. flag from my house top, put flag decals on my
car, and have a gigantic celebration on July 4th. I do not want any complaints or negative comments from the locals.
12. I would also like to have a nice job without paying any taxes, and don't
enforce any labor laws or tax laws.
13. Please tell all the people in the country to be extremely nice and never
say a critical word about me, or about the strain I might place on the
economy.
I know this is an easy request because you already do all these things for
all the people who come to the U.S. from Mexico. I am sure that Pres. Fox
won't mind returning the favor if you ask him nicely.
However, if he gives you any trouble, just invite him to go quail hunting
with your V.P.
Thank you so much for your kind help.
Sincerely,
David M. Bresnahan
David M. Bresnahan
April 1, 2006
NewsWithViews.com
Dear President Bush:
I'm about to plan a little trip with my family and extended family, and I
would like to ask you to assist me. I'm going to walk across the border from
the U.S. into Mexico, and I need to make a few arrangements. I know you can help with this.
I plan to skip all the legal stuff like visas, passports, immigration quotas
and laws. I'm sure they handle those things the same way you do here.
So, would you mind telling your buddy, President Vicente Fox, that I'm on m
way over? Please let him know that I will be expecting the following:
1. Free medical care for my entire family.
2. English-speaking government bureaucrats for all services I might need, whether I use them or not.
3. All government forms need to be printed in English.
4. I want my kids to be taught by English-speaking teachers.
5. Schools need to include classes on American culture and history.
6. I want my kids to see the American flag flying on the top of the flag
pole at their school with the Mexican flag flying lower down.
7. Please plan to feed my kids at school for both breakfast and lunch.
8. I will need a local Mexican driver's license so I can get easy access to
government services.
9. I do not plan to have any car insurance, and I won't make any effort to
learn local traffic laws.
10. In case one of the Mexican police officers does not get the memo from
Pres. Fox to leave me alone, please be sure that all police officers speak
English.
11. I plan to fly the U.S. flag from my house top, put flag decals on my
car, and have a gigantic celebration on July 4th. I do not want any complaints or negative comments from the locals.
12. I would also like to have a nice job without paying any taxes, and don't
enforce any labor laws or tax laws.
13. Please tell all the people in the country to be extremely nice and never
say a critical word about me, or about the strain I might place on the
economy.
I know this is an easy request because you already do all these things for
all the people who come to the U.S. from Mexico. I am sure that Pres. Fox
won't mind returning the favor if you ask him nicely.
However, if he gives you any trouble, just invite him to go quail hunting
with your V.P.
Thank you so much for your kind help.
Sincerely,
David M. Bresnahan
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U.S. and Europe Halt Aid to Palestinian Government
New York Times (AP)
BY STEVEN R. WEISMAN and CRAIG S. SMITH
Published: April 8, 2006
WASHINGTON, April 7 — The United States and the European Union announced Friday that they would halt payments to the Hamas-led Palestinian government but that aid would flow to Palestinians through the United Nations and other independent organizations.
"The new Palestinian government must take responsibility for the consequences of its policies," said Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, citing the failure of the Hamas-led government to meet donors' demands that it recognize Israel, renounce violence and respect previous Israeli-Palestinian agreements.
The United States cutoff would affect $400 million of aid that has not yet been expended. Of that sum, however, about $100 million would be redirected to the United Nations and other non-Palestinian groups to spend for basic human needs like food, health and schools.
The total for these "humanitarian" programs would rise to $245 million because of the redirected funds. But that left $300 million in aid owed to the Palestinians suspended pending further review.
State Department officials said they were suspending $300 million partly because there were not enough organizations in the West Bank and Gaza to carry out programs. Officials said no American money would be given to the executive branch of government led by the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, who has criticized the Hamas leadership for failing to reach out to Israel.
The decision on Mr. Abbas was a surprise, because American officials had earlier said that they were looking for ways to circumvent Hamas and support him directly. While the American officials gave no reason for the decision, they indicated that he had not established control over security forces and border crossings to justify giving him aid. Supporters of Israel in Congress told the administration they would object to money going to Mr. Abbas.
Asked if Mr. Abbas might eventually receive American aid for these purposes, C. David Welch, the assistant secretary of state for the Middle East, said: "Not now. But I don't rule it out, and I don't rule it in."
Mr. Welch said that, mirroring the American actions, the "broad trend" of European governments had been "supportive of the direction that we are going in" of cutting off aid to day-to-day Palestinian operations but letting money flow for "humanitarian" purposes.
The European Union's foreign ministers were to meet Monday in Luxembourg to discuss how to carry out their cutoff, but a spokeswoman said Friday that the outlines of what it would do were already clear.
"We are not authorizing any payments that go to the Palestinian Authority or through the Palestinian Authority," said Emma Udwin, the spokeswoman for the European Union's executive branch. The foreign ministers may try to funnel payments to individual ministries not under Hamas control, however.
The European Union has been the Palestinian Authority's largest donor since the government was created under the 1993 Oslo peace accords. It has been warning since Hamas won Palestinian elections earlier this year that the Palestinian Authority would lose that aid unless the Hamas-led government renounced violence, recognized Israel and accept past peace agreements.
Hamas advocates the violent destruction of the Jewish state, but that briefly came into question after the Palestinian foreign minister, Mahmoud Zahar, discussed the issue in general in an interview published Friday in The Times of London. "Let us speak about what is the meaning of the two-state solution," he said. "We will ask them what is their concept concerning the two-state solution."
Later Friday, the Palestinian prime minister, Ismail Haniya, insisted that Hamas had not changed its position. "That is not correct," he said in the town of Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip, Reuters reported. "Where did you hear that?"
He criticized the Europeans' cutoff of aid, saying they were "punishing the Palestinian people" for their democratic choice.
Explaining the European decision, officials in Brussels said the European Union had stopped all direct aid to the Palestinian government and payment of public employees' salaries with European Union funds through the World Bank. Aid is to continue to flow through international and nongovernmental organizations.
The European Union began providing direct budgetary assistance to the Palestinian Authority in 2000 after Israel, trying to isolate Yasir Arafat, froze monthly transfers of tax and customs receipts collected on behalf of the Palestinians under an economic protocol signed in 1994.
Europe's direct payments, which totaled more than $200 million from 2000 to 2002, led to the establishment of a World Bank-monitored trust fund, which is now used by most international donors to disburse money to the fledgling Palestinian government in return for its willingness to meet certain standards of improved fiscal governance.
European Union members provided about $600 million in aid to the Palestinians last year. More than half came from the European Union's budget and the remainder from individual member states.
Israel is withholding about $50 million in monthly tax and customs receipts to the Palestinian Authority.
The Palestinian Authority has said that it needs at least $150 million a month to cover salaries and operations. Last month's salaries for 140,000 Palestinian Authority employees have not yet been paid.
BY STEVEN R. WEISMAN and CRAIG S. SMITH
Published: April 8, 2006
WASHINGTON, April 7 — The United States and the European Union announced Friday that they would halt payments to the Hamas-led Palestinian government but that aid would flow to Palestinians through the United Nations and other independent organizations.
"The new Palestinian government must take responsibility for the consequences of its policies," said Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, citing the failure of the Hamas-led government to meet donors' demands that it recognize Israel, renounce violence and respect previous Israeli-Palestinian agreements.
The United States cutoff would affect $400 million of aid that has not yet been expended. Of that sum, however, about $100 million would be redirected to the United Nations and other non-Palestinian groups to spend for basic human needs like food, health and schools.
The total for these "humanitarian" programs would rise to $245 million because of the redirected funds. But that left $300 million in aid owed to the Palestinians suspended pending further review.
State Department officials said they were suspending $300 million partly because there were not enough organizations in the West Bank and Gaza to carry out programs. Officials said no American money would be given to the executive branch of government led by the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, who has criticized the Hamas leadership for failing to reach out to Israel.
The decision on Mr. Abbas was a surprise, because American officials had earlier said that they were looking for ways to circumvent Hamas and support him directly. While the American officials gave no reason for the decision, they indicated that he had not established control over security forces and border crossings to justify giving him aid. Supporters of Israel in Congress told the administration they would object to money going to Mr. Abbas.
Asked if Mr. Abbas might eventually receive American aid for these purposes, C. David Welch, the assistant secretary of state for the Middle East, said: "Not now. But I don't rule it out, and I don't rule it in."
Mr. Welch said that, mirroring the American actions, the "broad trend" of European governments had been "supportive of the direction that we are going in" of cutting off aid to day-to-day Palestinian operations but letting money flow for "humanitarian" purposes.
The European Union's foreign ministers were to meet Monday in Luxembourg to discuss how to carry out their cutoff, but a spokeswoman said Friday that the outlines of what it would do were already clear.
"We are not authorizing any payments that go to the Palestinian Authority or through the Palestinian Authority," said Emma Udwin, the spokeswoman for the European Union's executive branch. The foreign ministers may try to funnel payments to individual ministries not under Hamas control, however.
The European Union has been the Palestinian Authority's largest donor since the government was created under the 1993 Oslo peace accords. It has been warning since Hamas won Palestinian elections earlier this year that the Palestinian Authority would lose that aid unless the Hamas-led government renounced violence, recognized Israel and accept past peace agreements.
Hamas advocates the violent destruction of the Jewish state, but that briefly came into question after the Palestinian foreign minister, Mahmoud Zahar, discussed the issue in general in an interview published Friday in The Times of London. "Let us speak about what is the meaning of the two-state solution," he said. "We will ask them what is their concept concerning the two-state solution."
Later Friday, the Palestinian prime minister, Ismail Haniya, insisted that Hamas had not changed its position. "That is not correct," he said in the town of Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip, Reuters reported. "Where did you hear that?"
He criticized the Europeans' cutoff of aid, saying they were "punishing the Palestinian people" for their democratic choice.
Explaining the European decision, officials in Brussels said the European Union had stopped all direct aid to the Palestinian government and payment of public employees' salaries with European Union funds through the World Bank. Aid is to continue to flow through international and nongovernmental organizations.
The European Union began providing direct budgetary assistance to the Palestinian Authority in 2000 after Israel, trying to isolate Yasir Arafat, froze monthly transfers of tax and customs receipts collected on behalf of the Palestinians under an economic protocol signed in 1994.
Europe's direct payments, which totaled more than $200 million from 2000 to 2002, led to the establishment of a World Bank-monitored trust fund, which is now used by most international donors to disburse money to the fledgling Palestinian government in return for its willingness to meet certain standards of improved fiscal governance.
European Union members provided about $600 million in aid to the Palestinians last year. More than half came from the European Union's budget and the remainder from individual member states.
Israel is withholding about $50 million in monthly tax and customs receipts to the Palestinian Authority.
The Palestinian Authority has said that it needs at least $150 million a month to cover salaries and operations. Last month's salaries for 140,000 Palestinian Authority employees have not yet been paid.
Uncle Mo
Mongo only pawn....in game of life.
Mongo only pawn....in game of life.
