The US delegation to the Johannesburg Summit has announced the largest contribution of aid to the developing world since President John F. Kennedy, at over $10 billion per year.
US delegate Andrew Nastasios explained that the US preferred to spend all aid funding “on concrete projects,” rather than on bringing President Bush to the Summit.
Erin Condit-Bergren of the US youth group SustainUS responded “If it was genuinely a question of money we could have gotten the cash together to get Bush here in easily a day.”
SustainUS had challenged President Bush to attend the international poverty and environmental conference along with 107 other heads of state.
“But we probably could not have afforded to get him here on Air Force One,” Bergren conceded.
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