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Therefore, the federal government is the only actor capable of offsetting the cuts. However, a vigorous push from Senate moderates Ben Nelson and Susan Collins may keep the feds from helping Boston schools by slashing $40 billion in state aid from the federal stimulus bill. Such Congressional politicking should not be allowed to damage our nation’s public schools. The stimulus package must include enough money to at least partially salvage these jobs and those in other struggling school districts. When state and municipal budgets cannot sustain our public-school system, it is the obligation of the president...
...Many abortion-rights supporters have claimed that the policy decreased the amount and quality of American aid for reproductive health abroad. The first objection is groundless. The rules had no effect on the size of appropriations; they merely redirected funds and resources formerly given to non-compliant groups to those that accepted the provisions. The second has some footing. When the policy came into force some major reproductive health providers, particularly some affiliates of the International Planned Parenthood Federation refused to participate, although 44 ultimately chose to. This intransigence, however, was entirely self-imposed and absurdly doctrinaire—after...
...January 23, President Barack Obama reversed the Mexico City Policy, which stipulated that the United States would not provide reproductive health aid to non-governmental organizations that performed or promoted abortion as a means of family planning. He presented his decision as a conciliatory gesture, arguing that “for too long, international family planning assistance has been…the subject of a back-and-forth debate that has served only to divide us. I have no desire to continue this stale and fruitless debate.” In this claim Obama is half-correct. He has indeed...
...American relations, they need only look at what transpired in Ecuador this weekend. President Rafael Correa rather petulantly expelled a U.S. diplomat on Saturday. He did so because the diplomat rather high-handedly sent Correa's national police commander a letter saying the U.S. was pulling $340,000 in aid to Ecuador's anti-drug cops, because Correa decided last year not to let Washington have a veto over who runs that force and even who works...
...were in the 20th. On the one hand, it was indicative of Washington's inability or refusal to realize that Latin Americans aren't as obsessed with the drug war as los yanquis are - and that they tend to feel humiliated by imperious U.S. conditions like those set on aid for Ecuador's drug police. Correa's chief complaint against the U.S. diplomat, Homeland Security attache Armando Astorga, was "the insolence to pretend that Ecuador is a colony of the U.S." (Neither the U.S. embassy in Quito nor the State Department would comment...