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To: IngotWeTrust who wrote (60192)	10/26/2000 6:35:18 AM
From: long-gone	Respond to of 117321

Let's see, & they want to sell all government gold for what reason? Deadbeat Dictators on U.S. Dole NewsMax.com Thursday, Oct. 26, 2000 It could cost American taxpayers $435 million because the House caved in Wednesday to President Clinton and wants to let freeloading dictatorships keep money they "borrowed." The action was part of the House's approval of a whopping $14.9 billion foreign aid bill for fiscal 2001. Members of both parties tried to defend the debt forgiveness as a humanitarian gesture, even though much of the Third World aid ends up not helping the poor but in the pockets of ruthless tin-pot dictators or actually does harm by helping them oppress their citizens. ``This is the most important foreign policy initiative for the new millennium,'' claimed Rep. John LaFalce, D-N.Y. Rep. Joe Scarborough, R-Fla., was one of the few to question the wisdom of aiding and abetting ruthless regimes. He noted that the 30 countries allowed to welsh on their debts were among the most repressive in the world. ``You know they are going to come back (for more relief), because we are not requiring economic reform in these countries,'' Scarborough said. But John Kasich, R-Ohio, chairman of the Budget Committee, worried that other nations resented America's success. ``This is not just forgiveness,'' he said. ``This is a down payment to give these countries a fresh start.'' Clinton has pushed hard to stick taxpayers with the tab for an international program to ignore the billions of dollars of debt racked up by Third World regimes. The Abortion Compromise The bill, one of the last of the 13 spending bills Congress must pass for the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1, was cleared for a House vote after a compromise lifted a ban on U.S. aid for overseas abortion groups, the Associated Press reported. The bill provides $425 million for "family planning," lifting the ban on funding that Rep. Nita Lowey, D-N.Y., described as a ``gag rule'' that ``jeopardizes the lives of women around the world.'' Anti-abortion lawmakers have fought for the funding ban every year since 1993, when President Clinton lifted the restriction, imposed by President Ronald Reagan. They won inclusion of a delay in funding until Feb. 15. And they hope Texas Republican Gov. George W. Bush will be elected president and stop the abortion aid. The foreign aid bill, which passed 307-101, also: Increases military aid for Israel $60 million to $1.9 billion. Gives $100 million in conditional aid to the new government in Serbia. Includes $300 million intended to fight AIDS around the world. Spends $127 million for "peacekeeping" operations. The Senate is expected to take up the bill soon. newsmax.com