Peace Corps Lacks Money to Expand (despite Bush 2002 SOTU "goal")

[papau]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=513&ncid=703&e=9&u=/ap/20040329/ap_on_go_ot/peace_corps_growth

Peace Corps Lacks Money to Expand (despite Bush 2002 SOTU "goal")
Mon Mar 29, 3:39 AM ET By ADAM ASHTON, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON - The Peace Corps is trying to carry out President Bush's goal of doubling the number of volunteers it sends abroad by 2007, but it lacks the money to do it.

"The rate of growth for the Peace Corps has slowed and will slow because the funding levels we requested for doubling have not materialized," Peace Corps Director Gaddi Vasquez says...the Peace Corps budget, which grew by $26 million to $323 million this year, remains short of that needed to set the agency on track to reach 14,000 volunteers within the five-year period Bush proposed in his 2002 State of the Union address.<snip>

(Bush spokesperson) Brooks said those (current budget) sums would set the Peace Corps on track to reach 14,000 volunteers, but not by 2007 because of previous setbacks. <snip>

[tabasco]

1. Does anybody believe a word Bush says anymore?

Certainly no one with an IQ above a parakeet. Bush lies about important matters of national policy. Clinton never lied to us about anything important, yet he was impeached by the partisan and destructive republicans. How these people can live with themselves is beyond me.

[papau]

2. I agree

why the US media says Bush gov has any credibility is in contrast to the take of all other countries media - and of anyone following the show.

not that we have a right wing GOP controlled corporate media - they just act like they are.