Shut up Ron
Someone give a Bible to Mr. Paul - he’s got some readin’ to do.
Ron Paul must be working as a lobbiest the for some Arab country. Yemen? Syria? Such a bug up his butt against the Joooooos.
Relax, Ron. It’s just a Jew tax on the $380 billion the USA will send to hostile Muslim countries over the same period of time. Just think of it as bribing Israel not to take out the religious leadership of Iran and Saudi Arabia, thereby making the world safer for America’s conquerors.
To counteract the $100 billion+ we send to Iran?
I could consider a Libertarian approach of not giving to any of them, but giving Israel a green light to take care of business hard and quickly.
Although Paul always takes special care to add that he's against ALL foreign aid, for some reason only the aid to Israel makes him angry enough to write columns.
Over the same time period as the Israeli deal (10 years), we'll be giving 15 billion to Egypt, 11 billion to Afghanistan, 10 billion to Jordan, and 9 billion to Pakistan, totaling 45 billion. That's right, 45 billion U.S. taxpayer dollars to Moslem regimes, most of which are virulently anti-American. But Mr. Paul only brings up THAT topic in a very off-hand manner when writing about his outrage about the aid to Israel. Strange how that is.
I thought we were sending that to Boeing, Lockheed, etc., laundering it through Israel. The military-industrial complex is alive and well. At least we can count on the Israelis to put the hardware to good use.
For a much better reason than for what’s being sent to unplanned parenthood.
I love every dollar going to Israel if only to continue irritating every bloody Muslim and Jihadist who uniformly hate the very existence of Israel. When you have Muslim countries praying to their Satan god to help them destroy Israel I say up the aid to Israel.
So shut up Paul.
Why are we sending $150B to terrorist Iran?
I guess Ron Paul the idiot is not aware that they are surrounded by Hostiles on all sides. "Rich" is a relative thing. Relative to their enemies, they can use all the help they can get.
Ron, that's 3.8 Billion per year. It's a drop in the bucket of piss we give to the rest of the world. Most is military aid which will go to providing jobs here in the military industrial complex. Using the ten year figure and disregarding the rest of the world comes down to Jew baiting. That's your libertarian elite talking.
Because we have a treaty with them that we can’t give aid to certain Muslim nations without matching it for Israel.
Obama tried like hell to work around that, but he couldn’t legally do it.
Even if they didn’t need/want the aid, we had to give it to them if Obama wanted to give to his buddies in the Middle East.
SUCK IT, OBAMA.
I’m ambivalent on this but I do agree we have to support Israel given they share our humanity
How much cash is debatable
I’m not in favor of a blank check
How much do we give their enemies is a better Question
However I’d take Netanyahu as our first Jewish president any day if he could run
More importantly, why are we building Mexico a wall... on their southern border.
This is an abstract conceptual framework that is an over-generalization, and thus is an incorrect subjective map of the world. It is a false premise which invalidates his conclusions. Foreign aid is a useful way to get some countries to do what we want them to do rather than using force.
Dear Mr.Paul,
my question is why are we sending 75 million dollars
to Mexico to help build a wall on their southern border?
Less than one percent of our budget goes overseas
Afghanistan
Israel
Egypt
Top three
The rest of the top ten are Muslim or drug interdiction recipients
Genesis 12:2-3New International Version (NIV)
2 “I will make you into a great nation,
and I will bless you;
I will make your name great,
and you will be a blessing.
3 I will bless those who bless you,
and whoever curses you I will curse;
and all peoples on earth
will be blessed through you.”
EVERY country we send money to should be reviewed and vetted EVERY year. If the monetary support does not meet the criteria of “is this best for the USA and close allies” then they get nothing.