Clinton Announces Million-Dollar Scholarship Program for Palestinian Students

[Skull Pilot]

a million for education sounds like a good idea, IMO.

I can think of a few deserving youngsters right in my neighborhood

 

[del]

a million for education sounds like a good idea, IMO.

I can think of a few deserving youngsters right in my neighborhood

i can think of a couple deserving youngsters right in my household. i'm picking up their tab.

they've already decided to spend it, hopefully it's "bread on the water"

 

[Kalam]

Then send you money to Palestine. I'd rather my money be spent on American kids

Unfortunately, we've been propping up Palestine's oppressor for decades. Giving a few Palestinians a shot at a future is the least we can do after providing the munitions with which they're killed.

 

[jillian]

bunch of garbage....

i do so love terrorist supporters. do they have a homing device to this site?

 

[Skull Pilot]

Then send you money to Palestine. I'd rather my money be spent on American kids

Unfortunately, we've been propping up Palestine's oppressor for decades. Giving a few Palestinians a shot at a future is the least we can do after providing the munitions with which they're killed.

The least we can do is get the hell out of the middle east and let them sink or swim on their own.

or here's an idea, let's worry about American kids first and foremost and if there's anything left over we can dole out the scraps.

 

[auditor0007]

Anything that actually ends the Palestinian-Israel conflict (and giving the palis decent education on emptying their refugee camps as very important for that) may be a worthwhile monetary investment, given how much the USA currently invests in Israels military.

Apparently, educating them doesn't make much of a difference. It's the religion, plain and simple.

Iraqi doctor guilty in UK bomb plot - Terrorism- msnbc.com

 

[alan1]

Too bad that money isn't being spent on American kids.

So now we are the police and the educators of the world.

Wasn't it Obama who said the country with the best educated population will have the greatest success in the world?

too bad he wants to educate our competitors as well.

Obama-Clinton want to give millions to poor Palestinian kids, but the Democrats, at the bidding of their union masters, are taking millions away from poor American kids in DC.

Reporting from Washington -- Congress is poised to do away with one of former President George W. Bush's signature initiatives in education: the taxpayer-funded vouchers that enable students from low-income families in the District of Columbia to attend private schools.

About 1,700 children in kindergarten through 12th grade receive the $7,500 annual scholarships. Four times as many apply.

But a provision in the $410-billion spending bill that passed the Senate on Tuesday says that no funds will be appropriated for the program after the 2009-10 school year unless Congress reauthorizes it and the District of Columbia Council approves it. With the Senate's action, the funding bill goes to President Obama for his signature.

If the voucher program is allowed to expire, the students would probably be back in the public system within two years.

Spending plan kills funding for Washington school vouchers - Los Angeles Times

Maybe the other nations will like us more if our children are as dumb as theirs.

 

[Kalam]

bunch of garbage....

i do so love terrorist supporters. do they have a homing device to this site?

Where have I made any statement supporting terrorism?

 

[Kalam]

The least we can do is get the hell out of the middle east and let them sink or swim on their own.

or here's an idea, let's worry about American kids first and foremost and if there's anything left over we can dole out the scraps.

Sounds fine to me. I favor attempting to right some of our wrongs before getting out of there, though.

 

[Kalam]

Iraqi doctor guilty in UK bomb plot - Terrorism- msnbc.com

An Iraqi doctor's complicity in a "bomb plot" is supposed to show that the entire Islamic religion is hateful?

 

[Annie]

change you can't believe..............

I was thinking they are afraid to stop spending money, it might dry up? Oh no, they'll print more.

 

[Neser Boha]

Too bad that money isn't being spent on American kids. So now we are the police and the educators of the world.

Wasn't it Obama who said the country with the best educated population will have the greatest success in the world?

too bad he wants to educate our competitors as well.

Well, it's actually been very common for US (and other countries around the world) to foster educational 'ties' with other countries - not sure how much actual money has been invested into it, but US for example has state-supported educational exchange programs with China and many other countries (sending professors and students back and forth). As a matter of fact, this is, IMHO, one of the best diplomatic practices there are - at least you ain't hurting no-one or siding with anyone... helping kids and that way helping yourself - what could be better? Of course, one of the other motives to do so is also to spread 'Western values', etc... obviously.

 

[Xenophon]

Notice how the current administration continues to act like we have a bottomless money pit to draw on.

You say that as if the current administration is the first to do this...

Pointing to bad behavior by others as an excuse for current bad behavior is infantile and counter productive.

It's irrelivent what others admins did, we live in the here and now.

 

[PubliusInfinitum]

Ramallah, West Bank — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has announced a new million-dollar scholarship program to help Palestinian students enroll at Palestinian and American universities.

Mrs. Clinton announced the Middle East Partnership Initiative during a visit to this Palestinian town last week. The four-year program will support about 10 scholarships each year for disadvantaged students to attend four-year courses at Palestinian universities. The program will also offer 25 “opportunity grants” to enable promising but disadvantaged young Palestinians to apply to American-accredited institutions in the United States or the Middle East, a State Department official told The Chronicle.

Once funds are approved by Congress, Mrs. Clinton hopes to begin the program in the 2010-11 academic year. The money is in addition to $900-million in aid to the Palestinian Authority announced by the secretary last week at the donors’ conference, in Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt.


Clinton Announces Million-Dollar Scholarship Program for Palestinian*Students - Chronicle.com





Outstanding innit??

Well sure... that's what we need, more radical, anti-American, Jew haters (leftists) in Western Universities...

PERFECT! (Meaning, that this fits the pattern of subversion to PERFECTION!)

 

[Kalam]

Pointing to bad behavior by others as an excuse for current bad behavior is infantile and counter productive.

No more so than blaming an administration for continuing a legacy of deficit spending that's been around for nearly 100 years.

 

[Xenophon]

Pointing to bad behavior by others as an excuse for current bad behavior is infantile and counter productive.

No more so than blaming an administration for continuing a legacy of deficit spending that's been around for nearly 100 years.

Incorrect.

Previous admins did not run on 'change' and empty platitudes, THIS ONE did.

Making excuses is not 'change we can believe in' it's politcis as usual.

 

[Kalam]

Incorrect.

Previous admins did not run on 'change' and empty platitudes, THIS ONE did.

Making excuses is not 'change we can believe in' it's politcis as usual.

That was my point.

 

[DiveCon]

Pointing to bad behavior by others as an excuse for current bad behavior is infantile and counter productive.

No more so than blaming an administration for continuing a legacy of deficit spending that's been around for nearly 100 years.

we havent had 100 years of deficit spending, yet
closer to about 70

 

[Kalam]

we havent had 100 years of deficit spending, yet
closer to about 70

I was counting the deficit under Wilson during World War I as well. If that's included, it's around 90 years.

 

[DiveCon]

we havent had 100 years of deficit spending, yet
closer to about 70

I was counting the deficit under Wilson during World War I as well. If that's included, it's around 90 years.

ok, if you want to jump the time when we didnt


but using past wrongs to justify current wrongs is a bad way to do business
and the thing that most are upset about is the fact that in 50 days he has already nearly quadrupled the projected deficit
a deficit that was already too high for most