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Higgs Boson wrote:
On Jan 26, 1:17*pm, Billy wrote:
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*Billy wrote:
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*Mysterious Traveler wrote:
Lets stop giving money to foreign countries and reduce our National
Debt that way instead of cutting benefits for our own citizens.
Usually, at least with Israel, Egypt, and Jordan, half of foreign aid is
used to purchase U.S. made weapon systems, thus feeding the
military-industrial complex.
Curiously, Israel has a median household income of $37,000 and U.S.
foreign aid adds $500/person to that.
The U.S. is providing Israel with at least $8.2 million each day* in
military aid and is giving the Palestinians $0** in military aid during
Fiscal Year 2011.
* Congressional Research Service¹s ³U.S. Foreign Aid to Israel,² written
* *by Jeremy M. Sharp
** Congressional Research Service's Report ³U.S. Foreign Aid to the
Palestinians², written by Jim Zanotti
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- Billy
³When you give food to the poor, they call you a saint. When you ask why
the poor have no food, they call you a communist.²
-Archbishop Helder
Camarahttp://peace.mennolink.org/articles/israelpeacegroups.htmlhttp://engli
sh.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/01/2011181213096468...
20111812130964689.html
Interesting how certain posters go ballistic about "foreign aid" to
Israel (most of which is spent here in the U.S. for arms manufacture
from Israeli inventions (the Israelis would have loved to give the
work to their own people, but no.....)
Another thing that these types never mention is that Egypt gets
almost as many billions as Israel, but spends it on such cultural
niceties as obscene, vicious ani-Israel anti-Jewish attacks on
government TV. Also on government repression (seen the headlines
lately -- young Egyptians trying to throw off the Mubarak yoke these
30 years). Also on genital mutilation of women (90% of Egyptian women
are said to be genitally mutilated). To try to reduce the dreadful
consequences of m genital mutilation in the villages (non-sterile
knives or stones; mutilation closed with thorns; horrendous scarring;
sepsis, death, the horror of first intercourse, then childbirth) -- to
try to cut down on these, doctors do the mutilation in hospitals,
partially supported with U.S "aid" to Egypt = your tax dollars.
HB
#1 Foreign aid to Israel in 2010: $3,175,000,000
#2 Foreign aid to Egypt in 2010: $ 1,550,000,000
Jordan = $ 458,000,000 for 2007
http://www.vaughns-1-pagers.com/politics/us-foreign-aid.htm
Yemen: The United States decided to raise (2010) its annual aid to Yemen
up to US$300 million in order to support the development, economic and
democratic process (?) in Yemen.
http://www.yobserver.com/front-page/10019324.html
For a friendly, peace loving country, it is odd that the U.S. supports
such repressive countries.
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- Billy
³When you give food to the poor, they call you a saint. When you ask why the poor have no food, they call you a communist.²
-Archbishop Helder Camara
http://peace.mennolink.org/articles/...acegroups.html
http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth...130964689.html