It's not really 1.4 of a percent for the grand scheme. An annual 19% is 1.9% per month. $0.25 per transaction would generate tremendous amounts of revenue with the amount of daily trades.
No, he wasn't pandering. http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politic...-legacy-on-africa-wins-praise-even-from-foes/ George W. Bush's Legacy on Africa Wins Praise, Even From Foes At more than $5 billion a year in humanitarian aid to Africa, President Bush has given more assistance to the continent than any other president. His administration's aid was largely targeted to fight the major global health issues facing the continent, HIV/AIDS and malaria. In 2003 Bush founded the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), which guaranteed $15 million to be spent over the course of five years on prevention, treatment and research on HIV/AIDS. Under the Bush administration, the U.S. was also a leader in contributing to the Global Fund on AIDS. Though there was controversy over some of the qualifications for PEPFAR funds -up to 20% was to be spent on abstinence-focused prevention programs, and the funds could not be used for needle-sharing programs - most HIV/AIDS activists credit the program for being instrumental in turning the tide on AIDS. Before PEPFAR, an estimated 100,000 people were on anti-retroviral drugs in sub-Saharan Africa. By the time Bush left office in 2008 that number had increased to about 2 million. In 2005 Bush started a $1.2 billion initiative to fight malaria. He defended the request for funding in 2007, saying, "There's no reason for little babies to be dying of mosquito bites around the world." At Thursday's ceremony, President Clinton said in his travels throughout Africa he had "personally seen the faces of some of the millions of people who are alive today" because of Bush's policies. Even some of Bush's most ardent critics have admitted that his foreign policy legacy on Africa continues to have a lasting effect. U2 front-man and activist Bono, who criticized Bush on the Iraq War, nonetheless expressed his admiration for the Republican president on an appearance on the Daily Show last year, telling Stewart that Bush did an "amazing" job in the fight against the spread of HIV/AIDS in Africa. "I know that's hard for you to accept," Bono said to a surprised crowd and host, "but George kind of knocked it out of the park. I can tell you, and I'm actually here to tell you that America now has 5 million people being kept alive by these drugs. That's something that everyone should know." Since leaving office the former president and his wife, Laura, have continued to stay active in global health issues in Africa, now taking on cancer. The George W. Bush Institute has launched the Pink Ribbon Red Ribbon initiative to try and bring together both public and private investment to fight cervical and breast cancer in Africa and Latin America. The couple launched the program on a visit to Zambia and Bostwana in July of last year.
Awesome find Denny! Bush was always a very genuine person IMO. Didn't like how he ran this country, but loved him as a person. When he had that speech after 9/11, you knew damn well he was pissed... He wore his heart on his sleeve.
You know it takes a lot more than a jeep for a president to visit a disaster site, right? There are multiple planes full of people and equipment that go along, and it would have been a huge distraction for the first responders to have to deal with it. So... deal with it. http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-brief...praises-bushs-katrina-response-on-flight-with Donna Brazile praises Bush’s Katrina response on flight with Obama Donna Brazile, a prominent Democratic political operative, praised President George W. Bush’s response to Hurricane Katrina on Thursday, just hours before President Obama’s speech in New Orleans marking the storm’s 10th anniversary. Brazile, a Louisiana native, has applauded Bush’s Katrina response before. But she made her latest comments on board Air Force One while flying to the Big Easy with Obama, who has previously criticized’s his predecessor’s handling of the storm recovery. “Under President Bush’s leadership, we got it right,” she told reporters. Brazile said Bush’s initial response to the storm was “slow,” but chalked that up to chaos plaguing state and local governments along the Gulf Coast. She praised Bush for pouring more than $120 billion into rebuilding New Orleans and other Gulf communities over the opposition of some Republicans on Capitol Hill. “The president made a commitment and I think he kept his word,” said Brazile. Walter Isaacson, the Aspen Institute CEO who served with Brazile on the Louisiana Recovery Authority, echoed her comments. “George W. Bush, I think, gets a bum rap,” he told the traveling press corps. “It took a while to get things started, it was a little bit slow. But he cared about the city deeply and so did Laura Bush.”
Bush is singlehandedly responsible for all of the Aids in Africa. He went over there with his BULLSHIT abstinence program teaching AGAINST the use of condoms. Really?
Liking them and feeling that they are inferior aren't mutually exclusive. I'm not saying Bush is racist, I can't read minds. For all I know he was playing Xbox when people were drowning. I like children, have never wanted one. That doesn't mean anything. PS, if you say things like "we" didn't like him you shouldn't get mad when people generalize about black people. Goose and Gander and whatnot.
White people always want to tell us shit like "look at these black people who like this" to prove a point. Well the general consensus among US is that we hate bush. Know this and stop telling us.
You don't teach people to not have sex. That NEVER works. People want to fuck. Teach them how to do it safely.
The epidemic that spread aids. Not for causing the epidemic but he did not help it with abstinence training.
Say what you want but Bush exacerbated the problem. Believe it or not: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/27/health/american-hiv-battle-in-africa-said-to-falter.html U.S. Push for Abstinence in Africa Is Seen as Failure Against H.I.V. SEATTLE — The $1.3 billion that the United States government has spent since 2005 encouraging Africans to avoid AIDS by practicing abstinence and fidelity did not measurably change sexual behavior and was largely wasted, according to a study presented on the last day of an AIDS conference here. The study, done by a second-year student at Stanford Medical School for a professor with an expertise in cost-benefit analyses, caused a major stir in the room where it was presented. The researcher, Nathan Lo, analyzed records showing the age of people having sex for the first time, teenage pregnancy and number of sexual partners in international health surveys that have been paid for by the State Department since the 1970s. His work was overseen by Dr. Eran Bendavid, an assistant professor of medicine at Stanford, who has done previous analyses of American global anti-AIDS programs for the Institute of Medicine, a branch of the National Academy of Sciences. Global health specialists came to the microphone to congratulate Mr. Lo. Advocates who had long opposed the American policy that sought to prevent AIDS by promoting abstinence and faithfulness applauded. “That was fantastic,” said Dr. Gilles van Cutsem, medical coordinator for Doctors Without Borders in South Africa. Staff members from the government program that Mr. Lo had accused of wasting money — Pepfar, the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief — came up afterward to quietly congratulate him. When they realized a reporter was present, they nervously asked that they not be named. President George W. Bush’s global AIDS plan was enacted in 2003 and marshaled billions of dollars to treat Africans who had AIDS with lifesaving drugs. Conservative Republican leaders in the House of Representatives successfully included a provision that one-third of AIDS prevention money go to programs to encourage abstinence and fidelity. That campaign — known as ABC, for abstain, be faithful and use condoms — was part of the bargain made when Christian conservatives joined with liberals to pass the law. After Mr. Lo gave his presentation, the moderator asked if anyone from Pepfar in the room would respond. A woman identifying herself as a director of Pepfar’s efforts in an unidentified country said the program — which is led by Dr. Deborah Birx — had just cut the $47 million it still spends on abstinence and fidelity to $21 million. Beyond that, she said, she would have to wait until people at headquarters could read the study. A spokeswoman for Dr. Birx declined to comment in an email. Dr. Mark Dybul, who directed Pepfar during most of the Bush administration and now runs the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, said by email that he did not wish to comment. He noted that previous studies by Dr. Bendavid had shown that Pepfar prevented infections and saved lives. Michael Gerson, now a columnist for The Washington Post who was a Pepfar advocate and a close adviser to President Bush, also said he would have no comment on the study until the experts he trusted could read it. Mr. Lo said he spent a year analyzing dozens of health surveys that the United States paid for in countries around the world. Originally called the World Fertility Surveys, they were begun in the 1970s. They were later subsumed into the large Demographic and Health Surveys, now paid for by the United States Agency for International Development, that document health behaviors in dozens of countries. Spending on abstinence and fidelity peaked in 2005 and began to drop after the Obama administration took office in 2009. Mr. Lo compared data from 1998 to the present in 22 African countries, 14 of which received Pepfar money and eight that did not. He looked at answers to three questions that are part of the extensive questionnaire given to people interviewed: What was your age when you had sex for the first time? At what age did you have your first child? How many people have you had sex with in the last year? When answers about age at loss of virginity did not appear to be truthful, he said, he used a conservative form of adjustment, calculating backward from the birth of the first child. Although the numbers changed over time, the differences between the Pepfar and non-Pepfar countries did not change after 2005. That indicated “no detectable effect” from the expenditure, he said. The differences were so small that, for example, men in the Pepfar countries appeared to have 0.02 more sexual partners after the abstinence and fidelity funding began than they had before. In the past, Dr. Bendavid said, he approached Pepfar’s chief medical officer more than once suggesting that the Demographic and Health Surveys be used to analyze the effectiveness of the abstinence and fidelity efforts. “He said it was outside their purview,” Dr. Bendavid said.
You realize that the article you posted said that the abstinence program was actually the "ABC" program, of which the "C" stood for "condoms", right? It kind of undercuts your earlier post.
