Lawmakers push to restructure Egypt aid

Reuters ^ | March 18,2013 | Patricia Zengerle

[yoe]

Lawmakers have seized upon a domestic spending bill as a chance to tighten controls on how Egypt's Islamist government can use well over $1 billion in military and other aid that Washington sends to Cairo each year.

[snip]Washington provides $1.3 billion per year in military aid to Egypt. The United States also said early this month it would give the country $250 million in budget aid after Mursi promised to make the painful economic reforms necessary to secure an International Monetary Fund loan.

The senators - Rubio, fellow Republicans John McCain, James Inhofe, and Rand Paul, and Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy, who chairs the Senate Appropriations Committee's State and Foreign Operations Subcommittee - are not pushing to cut the aid.

Leahy and McCain are seeking to ensure the military aid is used for counterrorism, border security or special operations, meeting Egypt's most pressing security needs, not major defense equipment such as F-16 fighter jets or M1 tanks.

[snip]Paul's amendment, co-sponsored by Inhofe, seeks to cut off all assistance to Egypt until Mursi says in English and Arabic that he intends to uphold the Camp David peace accords.

(Editing by Cynthia Osterman)

[yoe]

Meanwhile our Military have no funds to provide for our militaries education and other more serious perks. But we can give to those who hate us and threaten our allies? Is no one in charge in Washington? Is it all a game to those bright lights?

Call your elected! NO MORE AID e-v-e-r to countries who burn our flag!

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

“If the government wants to ban stable, law-abiding citizens from owning gun magazines with more than ten rounds, but gives 20 F-16 fighter jets to the crazy new leaders in Egypt ... you might live in a country founded by geniuses but run by idiots.”

[Uncle Miltie]

"how Egypt's Islamist government can use well over $1 billion in military and other aid"

Money is fungible, you morons.

[onedoug]

We’re paying jizya.

[soycd]

>We’re paying jizya

The islamosickos put all their jizya into the backsides of goats, camels and little kids.

[little jeremiah]

There is no stopping the revolutionaries in charge of the fedgov without some major changes in R “leadership”.

If they don’t stop this muzzie/commie revolution, there will be hell to pay.

[Cindy]

A Small Sampler On The Internet:

MEMRI.org - Video Clip #3807: "EGYPTIAN SALAFI CLERIC MURGAN SALEM: BOSTON BOMBING WAS MEANT TO DELIVER A MESSAGE; SIMILAR ATTACKS EXPECTED IN FRANCE" (Broadcast: April 16, 2013) (Watch Here.)

FOX NEWS - Fox Nation: "U.S. GIVES 4 MORE F-16 FIGHTER JETS TO EGYPTIAN GOVERNMENT DESPITE OUTCRY" by Maxim Lott (April 11, 2013) (Read More…)

THE WASHINGTON FREE BEACON: "CLERIC CALLS AMERICAN AIDE TO EGYPT TRIBUTE Egyptian cleric says American aid is a mandatory tax" by Adam Kredo (SNIPPET: "This taxpayer aid constitutes a "poll tax" that America must pay to placate the Muslim Brotherhood, according to Khaled Said, a cleric who serves as the official spokesman for the country's Salafi Front, an extremist political party that has called for Islamic law in Egypt.") (March 28, 2013) (Watch Here; Read More…)