Damn straight Millie. You tell it right.

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yeah this is exciting!!! Probably have a bunch of holes in the damn things. Funny that some people think this government gives a damn about us. They could care less if we all die as long as the officials make an extra buck.

Yea, brilliant, the debt is almost solely the doing of the right and somehow the left is at fault for it? Now rubbers are the fault of the left too? Explain who was president as the debt was accummulated and what it was for. WWII and the Civil War were neccessary, Fascist Ronnie's wealth shift to the right was not and is the reason we are in such debt.

Joe Baby is absolutely right. I find it appauling that a US Government organization is willing to put Americans out of work to save a few pennies on a product that we are giving away to other countries (yes, giving out to other peopel in other countries, not in the US as some people seem to comprehend). Unbelievable and dare I say, UnAmerican!

The USAID organization should be ashamed of themselves for even considering purchasing from any other country, but the US. Then there is Congress... listing the Buy American policy. They have already allow so many jobs go overseas, via the corporate world - does our on government have to allow it's own agencies to turn its back on America too???

And while we're at it lets not forget to mention the 900 million dollars Hillary took to Gaza to rebuild the damn muslum neighborhoods after Israel got tired of them shooting rockets into Israel and killing their citizens. Why doesn't the government get the idea that the POS Muslum's hate us just for being Americans. So now they have more money to buy weapons to kill non believers, or maybe IEDs for our soldiers in Iraq and Afganistan. I love the way this administration loves the American soldier, wants them all to get a present of their own IED.

Somehow it has slipped your notice that we had Republican congresses all through Clinton and Bush years and the Democrats only had one house of Congress during the last two Bush years. So......there was NO liberal Democratic congress passing the legislation you objected to.

Thank you Joe Baby. I did not know that tidbit about dropping the "buy American" provision.

According to Wikopedia, USAID's aim is to "extend a helping hand to those people overseas struggling to make a better life, recover from a disaster or striving to live in a free and democratic country..." Yep, our new President promised "change" allright but I don't think providing low quality and unhealthy pregnancy prevention to boot is the kind of change we Americans and even those poor women (in every sense of the word) are going to end up with.

This just proves our government has no conscience to do something like that to poor women around the world.

No Bob, you have managed to ignore the facts as stated; probably because you have had your head buried in the sand for too long. It was the Nancy girl led liberal Democratic Congress that passed the outrageous spending bill that dropped the original "buy American" provisions. This gave the green light to USAID to save the American taxpayers money by purchasing from foreign manufacturers and allowing another 300 American workers the opportunity to experience unemployment and welfare dependency.

Perhaps you, and especially ED (2), would like to leave your heads buried in the sand and continue to ignore the fact that your beloved liberal Democratic Party initiated the legislation that caused the financial crisis we now face! Here are some more facts for you to ignore and disbelieve should you decide to keep your head in the sand and be influenced only by the liberal press and Hollywood celebrity talking heads.

You, and the public even more so, need to be made aware of the fact that the path to financial failure started in 1995, when the Clinton administration, deciding to change the Community Reinvestment Act of 1977, had HUD (remember Andrew Cuomo?) lower housing loan requirements to unreasonably unsound standards for low income and even welfare recipients who were destined to forfeit their mortgages. When banks balked at these new requirements, they were threatened with redline discrimination charges by the Attorney General of the US (remember Janet Reno?). These are the very same sub prime mortgages that two Clinton administration executives subsequently appointed to run Fannie Mae gobbled up. By implementing fraudulent bookkeeping practices for six years, they raked in $100s of millions in salary and bonuses while Fannie Mae was doling out millions to ACORN and into the election coffers of their Democratic Congressional overseers. Unlike the fate of ENRON executives, this guaranteed their escape from prosecution when the deception was discovered and made public in 2004. Senator Barack Obama (D-IL), a member of the Federal Financial Management Committee, was second only to Senator Christopher Dodd (D-CT), now Chairman of the Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, for huge campaign contributions received from Fannie Mae. Does any of this ring a bell or at least jog your memory? Don't you know that Senator Dodd, disregarding Republican objection, also wrote provisions into the first $ trillion bailout bill that allowed the AIG executive bonuses - and he admitted he did it at the request of the "Administration".

Why does the news media allow unchallenged biased reporting as in Speaker Nancy Pelosi and even the President's frequent eloquent public addresses placing blame for this crisis on the Bush administration, which tried on seventeen occasions to initiate reform? The defeat of reform measures in Congress was spearheaded by Representative Barney Frank (D-MA), a self-professed homosexual. Could the glib tongued (no pun intended) Mr. Frank’s illicit sexual ties to a top Fannie Mae executive been the root cause (again no pun intended) of his determined opposition. In addition, Rep. Frank, our Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, states that the private sector caused the problem and now the government must bail them out. I say that lack of Congressional responsibility and quest for power initiated and perpetuated the problem. Those responsible should have to pay the price instead of being lauded and applauded by the liberal press.

Surely, the TV news media knows or has access to the yet unpublicized facts while allowing Democrats to spin their deceptions to the delight of the ignorant masses that follow the yellow brick road to socialism. Americans, please awaken and see what the real price of freedom of speech through a controlled media has cost and will continue to cost for generations. I have little faith that Obama's good intentions and campaign promises will be sustainable with the millstone of his party's projected $10 trillion deficit spending being passed on to future generations. Financing will eventually come by additional mega purchases of US Treasury Notes by China and other emerging nations, and by the proposed sale of carbon credits that will raise the cost of manufacturing, electric power, etc. and will open the door for even more corruption and greed.

Unions are there for us. try looking at the real reason U.S. is going under. i would guess you drive a V.W. or somthing that was NOT made in U.S. .. Keep the unions going and it will keep your job here in the states. . and before you put the union down . check to see what the union can do for you. just dont talk out your @@# . Thank you . Dan
been in the union for over 32 years

screw you a$$hole. If it wasn't for unions, jerks like you would not even have a decent paying job. Union have raised the standard of living of all Americans, even jerks like you, who do not believe in them.

Unions are rubish I live in Hawaii and it is run by unions hotels are almost entirely unions. wonder why you have to pay so much for a hotel room here? Cause unions pay hotel bartenders $21 an hr + tips to serve drinks and their slower than dirt ut that is a union worker for you. and I drive a Dodge.