Posted on 05/19/2011 5:46:47 AM PDT by IbJensen
‘Great now were going to feed and pay our enemies”
At least we aren’t buying them weapons, oh wait we already did that.
Because Welfare payments to the unemployable USUALLY lead to economic reforms and long term development..... right?
No, it just rewards their economic incompetence and takes away any and all impetus to change anything for the better?
Oh.
King Abdullah is US educated and probably the most moderate and modern leaders in the ME.
I am sure he told this pinhead (Obama) to solve this Palestinian mess because those Palestinian pigs and monkeys aren't coming over my border in mass when Israel finally throws them out.
We tossed Arafat and his PLO goons in 1970 and they aren't coming back.
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Peter Fonda called ZERO a traitor.
Now tell me again how he is a shoe in for re-election.
I say again 10% approval if that much. . . . .
We need to stop this commie asshole!
Tell us how you really feel! lol
What I don't understand is Congress is supposed to hold the purse strings. How is it that the Executive branch can commit billions of dollars???
500 Million tons not 50 tons.
I wondered that myself - I'm a little weak in foreign aid implementation; whether it requires congressional approval or if it's a grab bag the president wields alone.
I also note that no one has answered your question.
Wonderful, now Arab farmers can use their crop to produce ethanol.
We have to pay for the 2 million Egyptians,who are out of
work because their tourist industry has been destroyed.
Neither one of those countries export oil in any meaningful amount that I am aware of.
What do you expect? A muslim looting the US to support muslims in the ME — how strange is that? I’ll bet that none goes to non-muslim countries in the ME, such as Israel.
>Now tell me again how he is a shoe in for re-election.
I will.
Stop reading the propaganda about “approval.”
The donks have NY locked, California locked , most of the NW locked, most of the NE locked excluding possibly Maine & another 2 -3 EV from that area.
The midwest will split, we may get Mn, & the SW will flip a couple of states our way.
The SE is GOP, the mid south will again split.
Now that leaves 3 states with a huge EV left - Ohio, Pennsylvania, & Florida.
The candidate who takes 2 of those 3 states is our next president with 271 EV.
Obama will no way take Florida even though the MSM will continue to call it a tossup till the final second. - O will lose Florida big.
We will fight tooth & nail in Pa, and probably lose it.
That leaves Ohio and that state is going to be one battle scarred wasteland after all of the billions are spent there.
Obama is amassing a HUGE war chest & we are going to be outspent.
Run the numbers - Your call...
I wondered that myself - I'm a little weak in foreign aid implementation; whether it requires congressional approval or if it's a grab bag the president wields alone.
I also note that no one has answered your question.
My question is how are they still spending this kind of money if the debt limit has not been raised? Did they tap into their TARP slush fund or are they just ignoring congress entirely. And if it is the latter isn't there some sort of mechanism to restrain it?
perhaps the I word should be shouted rather than whispered in the house
When are we getting rid of 80% of the cabinet commissars and the agencies they head?
Education, EPA will do for starters, but first we need a leader who is indeed from the far-right wing!
I don’t think you particularly like the current occupant of the White Hut.
You’re just an Obama hater who probably dislikes Moochell and little Malia and Sasha.
I forget the damned dog’s name.
U.S. officials have long argued that the funding promotes strong ties between the two countries militaries, which in turn has all sorts of benefits. For example, U.S. Navy warships get expedited processing through the Suez Canal.
Heres a 2009 U.S. embassy cable recently released by WikiLeaks that makes essentially the same point:
President Mubarak and military leaders view our military assistance program as the cornerstone of our mil-mil relationship and consider the USD 1.3 billion in annual FMF as “untouchable compensation” for making and maintaining peace with Israel.
The tangible benefits to our mil-mil relationship are clear: Egypt remains at peace with Israel, and the U.S. military enjoys priority access to the Suez Canal and Egyptian airspace.
The military funding also enables Egypt to purchase U.S.-manufactured military goods and services, a 2006 report from the Government Accountability Office explained.
The report criticized both the State Department and the Defense Department for failing to measure how the funding actually contributes to U.S. goals.
Does this aid require Egypt to meet any specific conditions regarding human rights?
No. Defense Secretary Gates stated in 2009 that foreign military financing should be without conditions.
Gates prefaced that comment by saying that the Obama administration, like other U.S. administrations, is always supportive of human rights.
The administration of former president George W.
Bush had threatened to link military assistance to Egypts human rights progress, but it didnt follow through.
When exiled Egyptian dissident, Saad Eddin Ibrahim, called on the U.S. government to attach conditions to aid to Egypt, U.S. officials dismissed the idea as unrealistic.
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