Rep. Massie: "We're sending more money to Israel than we spend on homeless veterans"

X / House of Representatives ^ | July 16 | Rep. Thomas Massie

[RandFan]

@RepThomasMassie

Though my amendment to strike $3.3 billion in aid to Israel from the State Dept Approps bill did not pass, 104 House Members voted in favor of it. The tide is changing.

Americans want their tax dollars to be spent improving things here at home, not waging war and genocide.

[escapefromboston]

Must be because Puerto Ricans are secretly controlling the government

[AppyPappy]

Also true of Ukraine under Biden but he was silent then

[Jan_Sobieski]

It’d be nice if Republicans like Rep. Thomas Massie were against the “camel” of USAID spending, rather than the “gnat” of ally military spending.

[darkangel82]

So many worship the institutional church, even on supposed “Catholic” forums like LSN. It’s a shame, really

[Merrick]

It was ALWAYS the Church - Some Jews are part of it and some Gentiles are part of it.

Acts 7:37-38

This is that Moses, which said unto the children of Israel, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear. This is he, that was in the CHURCH in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sina, and with our fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto us

And, yes, I used the AKJV for those who are obsessed with that. And, YES, the original Greek word there is ekklesia. Can't get around it. Speaking in the Spirit, while seeing Jesus STANDING at the right hand of God welcoming the first martyr into heaven, Stephen proclaims this - that when Moses was in Sinai with the exiles he was with the CHURCH - there were other Israelites there as well, but the Remnant there with him was the CHURCH.

God's plan from DAY ONE was the CHURCH, always has been and always will be.

[Merrick]

We ended USAID, right?

[Merrick]

I should add, that doesn’t mean I’m not a supporter of our only true ally in the Middle East.

[Liz]

The United States does not send “foreign aid” to Puerto Rico
because it is an “American territory,” not a foreign country.

Puerto Rico receives federal tax dollars annually, including
for social safety net programs and federal disaster relief.

Unlike Israel which gets hundreds of billions but pays
nothing to the US, Puerto Ricans pay federal taxes.

[McGruff]

Israel First

[Merrick]

Hundreds of billions for Israel? You mean cumulative over the better part of a century?

You are correct that Puerto Rico is not technically “foreign” - they are US citizens - and you are correct they get federal social “safety net” money on top of Social Security. But they only pay for Social Security. They otherwise pay no federal income taxes. So call it what you want, it’s aid and they do NOT pay federal income taxes on money earned in Puerto Rico.

[SPDSHDW]

Bibi allowed it to happen and he stated it on camera they were aware of it and did nothing.

Shocking he wont probe his own inaction.

[PGalt]

Yes, thanks for posting.

[SPDSHDW]

Because the idiots elected to Congress are all foreign prostitutes.

[Merrick]

Do you have a link of Netanyahu stating they were aware the attack was coming and did nothing about it? I’d like to see that.

[Merrick]

No, they’re mostly homegrown prostitutes selling their wares to foreign interests for foreign and domestic money.

[Merrick]

I should also say, I think it’s disingenuous (though I’m sure not intended maliciously) to list the source as House of Representatives. This is all Massie, using video from the House, but it’s all Massie and *should* say “X / Thomas Massie” It is posted on Massie’s personal X account, right?

[stars & stripes forever]

Rep. Massie: “We’re sending more money to Israel than we spend on homeless veterans”...

FIXED IT.

We’re giving more money to fraudulent Somalis and other foreign agents than we spend on homeless veterans!

[redfreedom]

As a veteran myself I have my own view of homeless veterans. Any homeless person, regardless of who they are or were, are homeless because they choose to be. This is particularly true of veterans.

The VA has extensive outreach programs just for homeless vets. If they want to be rescued, there is help just for them.

Back to mASSie’s comment - homelessness is like education, how much money in poured into either may not affect the outcome. This guy is acting like the democrat he really is.

[Wilderness Conservative]

Solution, send our homeless to Israel.

[Merrick]

China.