***Bushists offer $1 billion in grants to anyone anywhere who can FIX IRAQ

[BurtWorm]

Gee...Do you think they've run out of ideas themselves? :think:

http://www.fedgrants.gov/Applicants/AID/OM/BAG/RFA&%23032%3B267-06-001/Grant.html


General Information


Document Type: Grants Notice
Funding Opportunity Number: RFA 267-06-001
Posted Date: Nov 30, 2005
Original Due Date for Applications: Jan 31, 2006
The Request for Application will be issued after December 16, 2005
Current Due Date for Applications: Jan 31, 2006
The Request for Application will be issued after December 16, 2005
Archive Date: Mar 02, 2006
Funding Instrument Type: Cooperative Agreement

Category of Funding Activity: Regional Development

Expected Number of Awards: Not Available.
Estimated Total Program Funding: $1,020,000,000.00
Award Ceiling: $1,320,000,000.00
Award Floor: $1,020,000,000.00
CFDA Number: 98.001 -- USAID Foreign Assistance for Programs Overseas

Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement: No

Eligible Applicants
Unrestricted (i.e., open to any type of entity above), subject to any clarification in text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility"

Agency Name
Agency for International Development, Overseas Missions, Iraq (CPA) USAID-Baghdad

Description

The United States Agency for International Development is seeking applications for an Assistance Agreement from qualified sources to design and implement a social and economic stabilization program impacting ten Strategic Cities, identified by the United States Government as critical to the defeat of the Insurgency in Iraq. The number of Strategic Cities may expand or contract over time. USAID plans to provide approximately $1,020,000,000 over two years to meet the objectives of the Program. An additional option year may be considered amounting to $300 million at the discretion of USAID. Funds are not yet available for this program.

[BurtWorm]

1. It's not a joke, folks.

They're really running on empty!

[rogue_bandit]

2. Qualified sources...

Those "qualified sources" are the ones that got us in this mess.

You think President Carter might have a few words about this mess? Did anyone ask him his advice? I'll bet he would make a few good suggestions for free.

[DemInDistress]

3. Is there no end to the Crime Family's shame?

Sounds like a hugh S.O.S. Let's face it the liar-in-chief has made a
serious blunder attacking Iraq now he's looking for fall guys.

[TomInTib]

4. Dowd mentioned this in today's NYT. Huffingtonpost.com has a ..

copy of the USAID document.

Hey, maybe enough of us here could cobble together a plan and split the money.

[izzie]

5. I read about that this morning and had a good laugh. Sorry

What is it with the tax payers money and Bush? He acts like it is his own personal property and this is one more crazy thing he cam spend it on. When is Congress going to cut out his hand in the piggy bank?

[pinto]

6. Sounds like Green Zone Franchises - an "enclave" plan that was mentioned

here yesterday (citing a British Colonial response to its Malay uprising)...militarily secured enclaves (cities of "strategic importance") would be the beneficiaries of billions in reconstruction money, apparently in the hope of defusing the insurgency with a checkerboard of secure cities, having running water, electricity, functioning oil production, etc.

I trust USAID about as far as I can throw them and given the track record of US subcontractors in Iraq to date - the graft, the theft and the thuggery - this think-tank plan seems ripe for misuse and failure.

The grants remain unfunded. I hope they get a good long look in the House and Senate....

[jimshoes]

7. Say, isn't Michael

Brown in the disaster fixing business now? This is right up his alley.

ed:sp

[happydreams]

8. Ok, so how do they define social and economic

stabilization? Relative to what.

[zalinda]

9. Why don't they just give the money to

the UN, they are going to end up stabilizing Iraq anyway. We could get out of there faster.

zalinda

[Maine-ah]

10. just a little kick, I wanna hear some more opinions on this.