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TrainNut Loc: Ridin' the rails

pounder35 wrote:

OHHHHHHHH NOOOOOOO! You mean he's coming back? :shock:

You are too funny Pounder. :lol: :roll: :thumbup:

erniehatt Loc: Queensland Australia

Don't dispare to much fella's, your not out on your own, it happens here just the same. Ernie

Spindrift62 Loc: Dorset, England. U.K.

Interestingly, like you Yanks and Aussies, Britain is also broke, engaging in swinging cuts to virtually everything (except politicians pay rises). However our 'leader' has just stated that as we 'tighten our collective belts' only two things will be 'ring fenced' (the latest nonsensical buzz words). Guess what the two things will be? Our National Health System which is suffering from meltdown owing to people who have never paid a penny towards anything abusing it, and ............Foreign Aid.
Is this some kind of global conspiracy?

ocbeyer Loc: Baltimore

Things are never really this simple. Much of this initiative is designed to help American energy companies establish new markets overseas. You might call it a jobs initiative. Or a corporate subsidy. And it makes sense to help improve areas that are prone to instability and violence as our enemies try to enlist others to their causes. Spend it now, or spend much more later via the Pentagon.

http://iipdigital.usembassy.gov/st/english/texttrans/2013/06/20130630277882.html

BillHill Loc: Saint Augustine, Fl

On the news when they were showing POTUS in the cell Mandela had occupied I kept telling them to lock the door but no one listened.

charlie Loc: Minneapolis, Minnesota

ocbeyer wrote:

Things are never really this simple. Much of this initiative is designed to help American energy companies establish new markets overseas. You might call it a jobs initiative. Or a corporate subsidy. And it makes sense to help improve areas that are prone to instability and violence as our enemies try to enlist others to their causes. Spend it now, or spend much more later via the Pentagon.

http://iipdigital.usembassy.gov/st/english/texttrans/2013/06/20130630277882.html

"areas that are prone to instability and violence" is a description that can realistically be applied to areas/communities right here in America. KEEP OUR $$$ AT HOME !!!!!

RiverNan Loc: Eastern Pa

it would seem to me to be a way to make money here...once those folks have electricity they will want things to burn it....not to mention experts to install it.

you don't really think it is purely an act of kindness and generosity do YOU?

banjonut Loc: Southern Michigan

sarge69 wrote:

In the last few months, both in UHH and local news... (show quote)

Amen!

banjonut Loc: Southern Michigan

sarge69 wrote:

No #*$&(# comment on that one.

Sarge69

Kind of odd that this dimwit would offer electricity to a starving country. Kind of like throwing a drowning person an Egg McMuffin.

I have always been puzzled by the pictures we see of the starving people in some of those countries. Legs that look like sticks, you can count every rib, and yet they still have enough energy to procreate. How about a little saltpeter in the rice?

ocbeyer Loc: Baltimore

Well, if you really want to keep our dollars at home why not focus on the "American" corporations that continue to move their manufacturing facilities over seas? No, that's not something we like to talk about, right? That's not "patriotic".

As for the beleaguered populations of these third world countries, I guess they brought it all upon themselves, right? 150 years of colonialism, world wars they had no stake in, arbitrarily applied borders, Western and Eastern clandestine meddling in their politics, CIA orchestrated revolutions, despots propped up by American interests and the pillaging of their assets by international corporations had nothing to do with their present circumstances?

Brucej67 Loc: Cary, NC

This is really a business strategy (not really the presidents strategy), Africa is the next biggest developing commerce country on earth, but before selling to an under developed country they must be economically viable their for you have to bring them into an industrial century in order to make it profitable to have them as consumers.

pounder35 wrote:

The White House says Obamas electricity initiative, dubbed Power Africa, symbolizes the type of cross-continent ventures the president seeks. Backed by $7 billion in U.S. investment, the power program will focus on expanding access to electricity in six African countries: Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria and Tanzania.

Be sure their citizens are given Absentee Voting forms so they can help elect another Dim-ocrat in the next Presidential election.

ocbeyer Loc: Baltimore

banjonut wrote:

Kind of odd that this dimwit would offer electricity to a starving country. Kind of like throwing a drowning person an Egg McMuffin.

I have always been puzzled by the pictures we see of the starving people in some of those countries. Legs that look like sticks, you can count every rib, and yet they still have enough energy to procreate. How about a little saltpeter in the rice?

"Let them eat cake". Huh.

BTW, cake, to Marie Antoinette, was not a confection. It is the hardened grease and soot found at the bottom of wood burning stoves. She was even nastier than most people think.

ocbeyer Loc: Baltimore

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ocbeyer Loc: Baltimore

Brucej67 wrote:

This is really a business strategy (not really the presidents strategy), Africa is the next biggest developing commerce country on earth, but before selling to an under developed country they must be economically viable their for you have to bring them into an industrial century in order to make it profitable to have them as consumers.

:thumbup:

sr71 Loc: In Col. Juan Seguin Land

Obummer phones?

That program is a continuation of a program that started back in the Reagan years.