Matt Collins
11-13-2011, 01:56 PM
Gingrich wants Obama to spend MORE money overseas with taxpayer dollars.
On the Feb. 13, 2011, (http://abcnews.go.com/ThisWeek/week-transcript-revolution-egypt/story?id=12905449&page=2)edition (http://abcnews.go.com/ThisWeek/week-transcript-revolution-egypt/story?id=12905449&page=2) of ABC’s This Week with Christiane Amanpour, Gingrich … said that “this is an administration which for reasons I don't understand actually cut out the democracy in Egypt funds inside the State Department.”
But according to Forbes (http://www.forbes.com/sites/brianwingfield/2011/01/29/making-sense-of-u-s-foreign-aid-to-egypt-and-elsewhere/), “the $1.5 billion requested for Egypt in the president’s fiscal year 2011 budget puts the country fourth on the list of recipients for aid managed by the State Department and the United States Agency for International Development. Only Afghanistan ($3.9 billion), Pakistan ($3.1 billion) and Israel ($3 billion) have more aid requested for them.”
Newt apparently wants the U.S. to spend more on Egypt aid, but just tonight he said start everyone at ZERO?
And then there’s this…
In March 1993, I got an assistance program I could support: $1.6 billion in direct aid to help Russia stabilize.
Although a public poll said that 75% of the American people were opposed to giving Russia more money, and we were already in a hard fight for the economic plan, I felt we had no choice but to press ahead. American had spent trillions of dollars in defense to win the Cold War; we couldn't risk reversal over less than $2 billion and a bad poll. To the surprise of my staff, the congressional leaders, including the Republicans, agreed with me. At a meeting I convened to push the plan, Senator Joe Biden, the chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, strongly endorsed the aid package.
Newt Gingrich was passionately in favor of helping Russia, saying it was a "great defining moment" for American and we had to do the right thing. Newt was trying to "out-Russia" me, which I was only too happy to have him do.
Source: My Life, by Bill Clinton, p.506-507 (http://www.issues2000.org/My_Life.htm) , Jun 21, 2004
On the Feb. 13, 2011, (http://abcnews.go.com/ThisWeek/week-transcript-revolution-egypt/story?id=12905449&page=2)edition (http://abcnews.go.com/ThisWeek/week-transcript-revolution-egypt/story?id=12905449&page=2) of ABC’s This Week with Christiane Amanpour, Gingrich … said that “this is an administration which for reasons I don't understand actually cut out the democracy in Egypt funds inside the State Department.”
But according to Forbes (http://www.forbes.com/sites/brianwingfield/2011/01/29/making-sense-of-u-s-foreign-aid-to-egypt-and-elsewhere/), “the $1.5 billion requested for Egypt in the president’s fiscal year 2011 budget puts the country fourth on the list of recipients for aid managed by the State Department and the United States Agency for International Development. Only Afghanistan ($3.9 billion), Pakistan ($3.1 billion) and Israel ($3 billion) have more aid requested for them.”
Newt apparently wants the U.S. to spend more on Egypt aid, but just tonight he said start everyone at ZERO?
And then there’s this…
In March 1993, I got an assistance program I could support: $1.6 billion in direct aid to help Russia stabilize.
Although a public poll said that 75% of the American people were opposed to giving Russia more money, and we were already in a hard fight for the economic plan, I felt we had no choice but to press ahead. American had spent trillions of dollars in defense to win the Cold War; we couldn't risk reversal over less than $2 billion and a bad poll. To the surprise of my staff, the congressional leaders, including the Republicans, agreed with me. At a meeting I convened to push the plan, Senator Joe Biden, the chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, strongly endorsed the aid package.
Newt Gingrich was passionately in favor of helping Russia, saying it was a "great defining moment" for American and we had to do the right thing. Newt was trying to "out-Russia" me, which I was only too happy to have him do.
Source: My Life, by Bill Clinton, p.506-507 (http://www.issues2000.org/My_Life.htm) , Jun 21, 2004