Posted on 11/23/2023 12:30:10 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
On Monday’s broadcast of CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen pushed for the aid package on Israel and Ukraine proposed by President Joe Biden and stated that Europe needs “us to do our part for this to hold together as a package” on Ukraine.
Yellen said, “Well, it’s a critical priority for the President, and critical to the national security of our country. I can’t prognosticate about the timetable on this. I’m pleased that Congress has passed legislation to keep the government open and running, but it really is essential that this aid be provided both to Israel and to Ukraine. We can’t allow Ukraine to lose a battle on the homefront because it lacks enough money to keep schoolteachers in the classroom and first responders on the job when it’s fighting valiantly on the battlefield. So, Ukraine is utterly dependent on this aid. We need to join others. Our European friends are providing — have provided 50 billion euro[s] of aid to Ukraine over the next four years, the IMF has provided over 15 billion. They need us to do our part for this to hold together as a package. And, of course, Israel urgently needs aid as well. And this aid is critical to the national security of America, if Putin were to win this brutal war in Ukraine, next, we might see him attacking a NATO ally of ours. We need to stop this.”
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How about Europe doing its part???
For a change.
“How about Europe doing its part???
For a change.”
How about someone telling us why Republicans must FINANCE the country that tried to drive Trump out of power and may have contributed to his 2020 ‘defeat’?
Yes. We most certainly do! Not one cent more.
Teachers?! Really?
Finance the corruption? I think not.
Great question. Probably because many were on board with their actions…
Oh yes we can Yellen. We have no business paying to support these people. EU can pay for their needs. Not US citizens.
How about you do your part for Americans instead, Janet, instead of robbing the peasants, present and future generations, for the benefit of your Wall Street Friends?
“Great question. Probably because many were on board with their actions…”
Of course, but at least these Operatives are given Thanksgiving off (at least those in the US), so not much pushback when we call them out.
But, sadly, Black Friday is NOT a Federal Holiday, so they’ll be back, telling us to IGNORE Ukraine’s role in screwing over Trump and instead only think that the world started on Feb 24, 2022.
Are we going to pay teachers and other civil services not to work like we do here in this country?
Under what treaty or other agreement do we “have a part” to perform?
Haha. The traditional liberal lie, “if we don’t increase spending it will affect the ability of teachers, police and fire fighters to do their jobs.” These people are ridiculous. Cops, teachers and fire fighters in Ukraine mean nothing to American citizens.
Yellen is cracked. And ain’t no superglue for what ails HER.
Janet! They do not need to be rescued by us or anyone else! Give them your money if you wish…leave ours alone.
Wow…just another clueless bureaucrat. 🙄
If that porcine, globalist scumbag Yellen and her pedophilic ilk want to sink their cash into it to keep all their nefarious crap going on there, then I say let 'em have at it. But leave the rest of us out of it.
I want not a single penny of my cash doing there nor do most Americans.
But the USA? Nope. We can all pound sand. More debt, less services, criminal paradise, citizen hell. Pinko utopia.
The Biden/Democrat cabal is OK with arming foreign countries but grabbing guns from Americans is
an obsession w/ them. The same “Congress” that gleefully tramples Americans 2A rights, is hell bent
on supplying weapons to foreign countries.
Not content w/ the mega billions already in his pocket, Zelensky now says
he wants US tax dollars to Ukraine “according to the Israeli model”......here’s what he means:
Congressional Research Service
US Foreign aid to Israel
60 page detailed report
https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/RL/RL33222/44
The concerned Israeli lobby made sure the US Congress is required by law to ensure that U.S. military aid in the Middle East region doesn’t damage Israel’s military superiority over its neighbors. That requirement enjoys broad bipartisan Congressional support and has served as a benchmark for ensuring Israel receives robust U.S. support in the mega-billion dollar range.
Biden keeps gaslighting Americans about the “need” for
American foreign aid tax dollars to Ukraine and Israel.
Here’s why they DONT need it:
About $113.1 billion in tax dollars were authorized in 2022 for Ukraine, according to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. Most of it–about $67.1 billion–was defense-related. The other $46 billion included:
<><>$26.9 billion for economic support;
<><>$7.9 billion for international disaster assistance;
<><>$6.6 billion in assistance for refugees;
<><>$1.5 billion for assistance for Europe, Eurasia and Central Asia;
<><>plus $3.1 billion for other non-defense spending.
US tax dollars helped Ukraine
<><>pay the salaries of 618,000 educators, 517,000 health workers, and 56,500 first responders
<><>helped sustain critical healthcare services,
<><>helped meet pension responsibilities for 9.8 million people,
<><>assisted 1.3 million internally displaced persons,
<><>provided housing assistance to 4.1 million people,
<><>provided social assistance to 240,000 low-income families
<><>helped subsidize 480,000 persons with disabilities,
<><>bought supplies for farmers,
<><>financed finding markets for small business.
Backstory: Since 1973, Israel has received more than $120 billion US tax
dollars in MILITARY assistance alone, including “three special aid” packages.
<><>billions for signing the Israel-Egypt peace treaty
<><>billions for Israel’s withdrawal from the Sinai.
<><>billions for redeployment of Israeli forces
<><>rebuilding Israeli air bases in the Negev cost $5 billion.
Besides weaponry, Israel also receives (a) economic, (b) humanitarian foreign aid, which supports broad economic development, and sociopolitical stability, and, (c) additional non-military support related to the country’s pressing security needs.
GASLIGHTING.....”We can’t allow Ukraine to lose a battle on the homefront because it lacks enough money to keep schoolteachers in the classroom and first responders on the job when it’s fighting valiantly on the battlefield.
WE DONT CARE ...... “Ukraine is utterly dependent on this aid,
............................And, of course, Israel urgently needs aid as well”......
PURE BS.....”this aid is critical to the national security of America, if Putin were to win this brutal
war in Ukraine, next, we might see him attacking a NATO ally of ours. We need to stop this.”
JOE WHO? “Its Joe Biden’s priority.”
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