Global
health care initiative continues to drain American taxpayers’ pockets
(Tea Party) – The Obama
administration is infusing yet another quarter-billion dollars of its already
overblown portfolio of international health care initiatives just to help operate
this global bureaucratic monstrosity.
And the estimate return on this
venture? Two hundred fifty new support staff—at taxpayer expense of $1 million
each. Ironically, this revelation dovetails with news that Obama’s ever-growing
health care bureaucracy here in the US will wipe out what is the equivalent of
2.3 million private-sector jobs in the next 10 years.
Yet, despite the mass loss of
millions of US jobs, the US Agency for International development estimates it
will spend about one million dollars on each temporary worker that it hires via
this Global Health Support Initiative, also known as GHSI III.
“We anticipate approximately 250 contract staff
will be needed to provide technical, professional, operational, and
administrative support” to USAID/Bureau for Global Health, or USAID/GH,
programs worldwide,” the agency said in a notice to contractors. WND discovered
the announcement via a routine database research.
This was what is known as a
“presolicitation” notice as the agency has not yet formally solicited bids for
the services.
Despite that USAID acknowledged the
million dollar price tag on each staffer, it also said that it is “not
releasing any other information concerning this [contracting] requirement.”
When news media outlet WND probed
further by examining the FedBizOpps database seeking information on prior
initiatives like GHSI II, it was discovered that that project segment was
launched just three days after Obama took office. Ninety positions that the
George W. Bush administration had created were preserved. Under Obama USAID had
a goal of transitioning and maintaining those jobs for another three years.
Despite a Request for Proposals that
is available through the FedBizOpps database, curiously, the contract-cost data
for both GHSI I and II was absent.
However, what was found on the RFP
was that the hiring of USAID contractor workers preceded both Obama and Bush.
It was the William J. Clinton administration that launched the outsourcing
trend in 2000.
At that time USAID/GH signed an
inter-agency agreement with the US Department of Treasury. On behalf of the
agency it was the US Department of Treasury that arranged
“non-direct-hire-staffing.” GHSI was launched by Bush when the agreement came
to an end in 2007.
Among other worldwide health
programs, Obama expanded the initiative.
Obama’s Global Health Supply Chain
initiative would dwarf the $250 million contractor support plan, with its estimated
cost to taxpayers expected to be $56 billion.
In addition, Obama’s USAID expands
the HIV program already in place. A legacy left by both the Clinton and Bush
administrations, the HIV program’s goal is to help homosexuals, prostitutes and
transgender people of Central America.
Among the biggest hurdles to the US
policy’s success in that region are “conservative gender norms related to
sexuality and strong normative preference for heterosexuality.”
In recent months Obama also launched
an aggressive plan to expand health care and social services to millions of
Kenyans.
Last month, in a move that mirrors
that of the advertising industry, the Obama administration awarded $60 million
in combined contracts that involves expanding the distribution of health-care
information across the globe. This new endeavor is titled TRANSFORM:
Translating Effective Practices from Research, Marketing and Design.
Source:
http://www.teaparty.org/obama-mass-spending-spree-temp-jobs-1-million-34500/#sthash.IMM1Cr4g.dpuf
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