Posted on 10/31/2023 6:31:57 AM PDT by RandFan
@RepThomasMassie
If Congress sends $14.5 billion to Israel, on average we’ll be taking about $100 from every working person in the United States.
This will be extracted through inflation and taxes.
I’m against it.
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Ukraine has nothing to do with this. Liz, this is different. Come on. Massie is voting with the “squad”.
Speaker Johnson’s Israel proposal runs into stiff Senate opposition
The Hill via Yahoo ^ | October 31st, 2023 | Alexander Bolton
Posted on 10/31/2023, 10:55:30 AM by Mariner
The effort to pass an emergency defense spending package through Congress is turning into a mess.
Senators say that new Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-La.) demand to separate Israel funding from Ukraine and offset the $14.3 billion in Israel aid with cuts to the IRS budget isn’t going anywhere in the Democratic-controlled Senate.
It’s uncertain whether Johnson can even get his controversial proposal passed through the House, where Republicans hold a slim four-seat majority.
Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Ben Cardin (D-Md.) declared the House Republican proposal to cut IRS funding to pay for aid to Israel dead on arrival in the Senate.
“It’s a non-starter. It’s a poison pill,” he said.
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Listen pal, I will never need or desire validation from you on any matter. At all, ever. Get it?
We shall see about that....... soon enough.
Tell me Liz, how many antisemites ( think squad ) would vote for additional funding for Israel?
“Listen pal, I will never need or desire validation from you on any matter. At all, ever. Get it?”
I agree... No you don’t. But if you are going to be a playground bully expect to get some opposition and exposure for it. Not everyone is going to let you take their lunch money without resistance...
Bully? Project much?
Biden and the Democrats are OK with arming foreign countries but grabbing guns from Americans is an obsession w/ them. The same “Congress” that gleefully tramples 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 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 support and has served as a benchmark for ensuring Israel receives robust U.S. support.
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 businesses.
Backstory: Since 1973 alone, 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 economic and humanitarian US foreign aid, which supports broad economic development and sociopolitical stability and can include non-military support related to the country’s pressing security needs.
Much military aid from US taxpayers has blanketed Israel over the years. They have more than enough resources, now, to nail Hamas and Hezbollah. Wealthy Israel has very low debt, and actually had a budget surplus this year, while the US is $33 trillion in debt, a debt which future generations are saddled with.
Iran is supplying Hezbollah with weapons, sure, but do they want to enter this war directly if they can help it? Israel knows the lay of the land there better than anyone so they must know igniting a regional war could actually threaten Israel’s very survival.
Why are some FReepers cheering that on?
Here we go again, If you don’t want to spend away the future of your Grandchildren then you are a Hamas lover.
No... WE LOVE OUR GRANDCHILDREN FIRST AND FOREMOST.
And making them pay for this insanity is about as immoral as immoral can get.
Period, full stop.
“Bully? Project much?”
Archived.
I want to know how in the hell..that this was accomplished. Israel is supposed to have thee best intel organization in the world and they let this atrocity slip through the cracks?
The dam Egyptians even gave them advance warning and they ignored it?
Somebody explain to us on here how in the hell a terrorist organization gets away with training, supplying and committing an atrocity under the nose of what is supposed to be the best intel on earth.
The GD sons a bitches even took the border outposts in that area without as much as a fight put up!
I dont trust Nut-in-yahoo. After the 2020 election what did that man do and say about Trump?
What would the Democrats agree to cut to offset the spending? Make them name something and agree to it?
Fixed it. Your grandchildren would agree with the above.
OMG!!! SO WHAT? Its just printing/borrowing more money!
Its just adding to the national debt that someday we will just WIPE.
STOP sending money to Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and every other Muslim country and we could well afford to fund Israel’s righteous war.
Wiping out Muslim terrorists is worth EVERY PENNY!
If a poster doesn’t want to spend away the future of their
Grandchildren they get insulted, labeled a Hamas “lover.”
The reality is Americans LOVE OUR GRANDCHILDREN
FIRST AND FOREMOST over a foreign country.
And making generations not yet born pay for this insanity is about as immoral as immoral can get.
Sums it up succinctly.
Absolutely. Our concern should be with solving the problems here.
Nice comeback........that would indeed be interesting.
You’re not the only one who distrusts Netanyahu, many Israelis don’t trust him either. Some think he had the IDF stand down intentionally so as to allow this to happen. It gave him the excuse to clean out Gaza and makes people forget about the fraud and corruption charges he’s been facing.
https://rumble.com/v3p80xd-israel-did-not-respond-to-the-attack-for-many-hours.-how-is-this-possible-e.html
“If you don’t want to spend a one-time fixed specific amount money to aid Israel”
Are you kidding me? You are either not being honest in your argument or you are completely daft or you are damage control.
Do you actually believe that??? Do you actually think we would believe that??? When have these EVER in history been one time payments???
Like that first “one time payment” to the Ukraine? Niger? Kuwait? Afghanistan? Serbia? Vietnam?, Korea?.
These are by design meant to hose us for everything they can for as long as they can. And still no one ever actually wins. There is no profit to be made if someone wins and the war money stops.
Was Massie tweeting this sort thing out when we were spending 10 times as much on Ukraine, where there was never a national security issue involved?
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