Hillary Clinton's Foreign Aid budget -- Hearing, fr C Span Mar 6 2011

March 6, 2011 at 11:09 am

On CPSAN now, Hillary Clinton bragging about her Department’s foreign policies in terms of what $ it has budgeted for what under the new mandate to cut federal spending. It will cut $ for humanitarian foreign aid, especially in Europe. It will fund $1.3 billion for Israel. She was formally introduced with a special thanks by Berman over the Adminisration’s recent veto at the UN. AT 12:45 PM today, following this segment, Senate Hearings with Sec. Of State Hillary Clinton.

Berman, honcho of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, just asked Hillary if the Arab change in the wind will change her policy regarding the I-P conflict. She says inter alia “the Palestinians” expect us to continue to work with Egypt as we have all along regarding our support for the peace process. She prefaced that committment by saying “we knew what was happening all along” as to the Arab revolt against the Arab regimes. It’s just disgusting, this onspoken conspiracy between Berman’s ilk and Hillary & her ilk to keep the wool pulled over the eyes of the American public–God forbid they ever got a word of truth of
what we actually bring to the Middle East Street and how such gifts
keep recruiting terrorists as Beiden and Petraeus said, and blowback, like 9/11.

Now Ackerman, addressing Hillary, is droning on about the Arab revolt, how it’s not against the US or Israel—there’s an opportunity for the US (that is, Israel) to take advantage of this rebellion–let’s us and Israel give a bunch of people 10 million each to go preach the new gospel to the new young Arab rebel leaders. Hillary says, good idea, we can make them real free market enterpreneurs, bring them to the US for training, a new labor-intensive reach out, our new social network speaking farsi to the new Arabs, etc.

Now Rep Burton (R, IN) is asking Hillary about our dependence on foreign oil if the new Arabs don’t buy into our philosophy? Because of environmental concerns, we are not weaning ourselves from Arab oil, but rather wer are impeding our independence from it. We risk losing 30% of our Arab oil dependence. Isn’t it time to become energy independent in the next decade, e.g., convert our big trucks as T Bone Pickens says we should? Hillary: I agree our Arab oil dependence is a national security issue. No single answer. Drilling is long term, we need short term solutions–a whole menu of them. She doesn’t specify.

Rep Faleomavaega (American Somoa, D): your department is only 1 % of GNP. Hillary: It’s imperative we contine our mission in Iraq–forget how we got there.

The Rep F: “How about all the suffering natives in S America & Pacific island nations? How about existing cluster bombs in Laos & Camodia? Hillary: We are in competition with China for hearts n minds there–we should at least fly our flag there.

Rohrabacher, House rep: asks Hillary about forced abortions. Re the nature of foreign aid, does it make sense for us to borrow money from China and give it to other countries, especially to China since we give to the global fund where China is the 4th largest recipient of thsoe funds–and we pay interest! Hillary: Because of what happend since 2001, we have to do things; HIV is a devil we need to stamp out. R: Pakistan has gotten billions of our foreign aid, how long we give money to the Taliban? Hillary: we belive our combo of aid to Pakistan is in our interest.