Only $647 million?
And here we are preoccupied with our mundane concerns about how we will pay the electric bill and keep the house heated.
Let’s see:
Obama Copenhagen promise = $100 million
Haiti promise = $100 million
Howitzers for India $647 million
Obama Slush Fund #1 (Unspent Stimulus) $550 billion
Obama Slush Fund #2 (TARP money paid back) $250 billion
Obama promise to double aid to Africa = $25 billion
We’ve come around to Obama’s way of thinking: We HOPE for a CHANGE.
India is buying those howitzers, that would probably mean more jobs in the US. India has already bought military t aircraft( transport/reconnaissance) worth $3 billion from the US in the last 12 months. Another $ 2 billion order for Boeing’s C-17 Globemaster is almost through. US companies are in the hunt for other orders worth nearly $ 12 billion.
Its the Pakistanis who get stuff as aid, not India.