The food prices sure went up. I think we’ve done enough with a tripled PEPFAR budget over five years. I guess we won’t give the lobby what it wants, so it’s more money. Congress should really stop playing politics with all that money. Why is it important PEPFAR came from the President?

How will this affect H.R.5535 since the budgets are together?

The sponsors of the bill need term limits. They have been in office longer than Castro.

Why reduce what Congress tripled? I won’t pay with my life, neither will Bush. Congress wants to reduce what they tripled by using government employees and programs to inflate the cost of the bill and lower the benefits to foreign countries. So, now we reduce the cost, but don’t decrease the government agencies and programs that inflate the cost? Benefit countries, and this is seen as a permanent benefit, will just say your stealing from the foreign aid money authorized by Bush or is it Congress? Sorry, that is your problem.

When we pay out these benefits over the five years and oil goes up and the economy worsens and people need benefits – people are just going to say that Congress ripped us off again. So, the new doubled and tripled budgets over five and ten years finally broke us; why would Congress be surprised?

Who are the partners. Maybe Congress should list them.