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| Obama: Prosperity is in Africas future |
| 2009-07-12 |
| [Jakarta Post] President Barack Obama is promising to make sure that U.S. aid to Africa gets to the people who need it most, such as farmers and entrepreneurs, and not Western consultants and administrators. In a speech Saturday in Ghana, Obama said that was why $3.5 billion in food assistance would be channeled toward new methods and technologies for farmers, instead of simply sending U.S. goods to Africa. The American president, making his first visit to sub-Saharan Africa, said wealthy countries like the U.S. had a lot to gain by opening their doors to more goods and services from Africa. He says that would help reduce poverty and create wealth on the continent, while creating new markets and demand for American goods. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #9 President Obama has no ties to the family of the father who abandoned him. I've heard it rumored that Frank Marshall Davis is probably his real Daddy, and that BHO Sr. was cuckolded. Wouldn't surprise me a bit. Just sayin'. |
| Posted by: Injun Grinesing9686 2009-07-12 16:32 |
| #8 What's that has to do with anything, TW? The Obama clan don't hold much power in Kenya as far as I know, g(r)omgoru, and their half-relative, President Obama, has no reason to be solicitous about their welfare, so they both have no way to get divert any funds to flow through their fingers, nor does it seem to me likely such positions will suddenly appear for them. Is that what you meant? |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2009-07-12 13:56 |
| #7 Kinda reminds me of the old Russian joke about how true communism is just over the horizon. |
| Posted by: Cornsilk Blondie 2009-07-12 13:17 |
| #6 What's that has to do with anything, TW? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2009-07-12 09:46 |
| #5 I wonder how much the Obama clan would get. I shouldn't think they'd get anything in particular. President Obama has no ties to the family of the father who abandoned him. He merely visited once, functionally as a tourist, when he went to Kenya to look at his roots. Although, he did campaign with that half-brother or cousin or whatever, a few years ago. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2009-07-12 08:43 |
| #4 But the JOBS!!!! What about the millions of new African JOBS? |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2009-07-12 07:26 |
| #3 I'm glad there'll be prosperity somewhere. |
| Posted by: no mo uro 2009-07-12 07:19 |
| #2 Why is a socialist transnationalist worried about opening new markets for American products? |
| Posted by: gromky 2009-07-12 04:43 |
| #1 I wonder how much the Obama clan would get. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2009-07-12 03:12 |