Posted on 01/25/2024 12:48:41 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
Thursday, during an appearance on FBN’s “Mornings with Maria,” Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) criticized Democrats who backed proposed funding for war-plagued areas in Israel and Ukraine.
The Kentucky Republican suggested it seemed as if the United States was “funding both sides of every war.”
“So he wants to send money overseas more to work on border, you know, and his notion of working on it is really just to spend more money on processing people coming in, Senator,” FBN fill-in host Jackie DeAngelis said.
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Struggling US taxpayers trying to feed the family, keep a roof over their heads, and the lights on, are being relentlessly gouged for two stupid wars that have nothing whatsoever to do with Americans’ safety and security.
And it wont stop there.
RAND PAUL: “....they expect us to finance the clean up AND the rebuilding.”
Ukraine is hurriedly destroying several neighborhoods to up the ante.
Same with the money-slobberers in the insatiable Middle East.
And who’s going to have to pay for it all? We, the people, that’s who.
Having a reason isn’t a Constitutional authority though.
The USSR threatened the American Homeland.
You sound like a 1980’s Democrat. The USSR threatened the US homeland.
Oh we’ve been Sugar Daddy to the world since around 1942 or so, definitely since 1945. Seems like a fairly dumb rhetorical question to ask. After all we rebuilt England, France, Germany, Western Europe, Japan, Southeast Asia and more than a few more countries. And one could argue that we pulled all of the Warsaw Pact, the former USSR components and even China back into financial viability.
A huge chunk of Lend-Lease went to the Soviet Union.
The Inside Story of Soviet Lend-Lease- From Washington to Great Falls to Moscow. By George Racey Jordan.
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