In the interest of looking for the positive...

From www.One.org:

WHITE HOUSE ANNOUNCES FY 2007 BUDGET REQUEST


Feb 6 2006
Contact: Meighan Stone
Phone: (202) 464-1345

The White House today announced its budget request for Fiscal Year 2007, with an increase of $2 billion for the overall fight against global AIDS and extreme poverty. With significant funding increases concentrated on the President's AIDS Initiative and the Millennium Challenge Account, the budget request also contains cuts to core humanitarian and development accounts for development assistance, initiatives that help mothers and children in the world's poorest countries and life-saving funding for The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria.


ONE STATEMENT:

Over 150,000 ONE supporters emailed and called the White House, asking that President Bush support a $5 billion increase above FY2006 passed levels for U.S. humanitarian and development assistance efforts that save millions of lives and create hope, opportunity and stability for people in the world's poorest countries.

The FY07 budget request development assistance increases represent welcome progress towards that goal, with much more work to be done. ONE supporters will continue working to ensure that Congress both fully funds this request and restores cuts to effective initiatives, as well as continuing to ask our leaders to give an additional 1% of the U.S. federal budget to effective development assistance that keeps America's life-saving promises to fight AIDS and poverty.

$2 Billion is better than none, which is what I would have expected from an administration that recently asked Congress to take food from the mouths of seniors, women and children while continuing to cut taxes for people who frankly, can afford to buy all the food they want and more.

Ok, so much for trying to remain positive.