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To: ConservativeInPA

Then if you believe what you say, you need to be in support of our aid to Israel 100% but just want to see a plan for taking the cost of that support out of some places the current spending is dedicated to. That I would agree with.

However, minus getting such a thing from Biden, and if I were sitting in Congress, I am not sure I could sacrifice aid to Israel for something I have no hope of getting from Biden.

My approval of aid to Israel is not dependent on who is President. Would you be making your same argument if the situation was the same (and the budget was the same) and Trump was President?

To me the budget battle must be waged on its own, for that is the real financial battle, more than this or that program or this or that expenditure - though many programs and many expenditures do need to be dropped altogether. Those are the battles Congress needs to be engaged in, far far far more than holding up immediate aid to an ally under attack in an Iranian proxy war. Why? Because those things are systemic and immediate aid to an ally is not.

A former CEO boss use say to different people on the staff from time to time - when he thought their view of the situation was wrong - “Your looking at the hole not the donut”.

The donut is the whys and wherefores of the $7 trillion to start with, not aid to Israel.


12 posted on 10/19/2023 8:47:53 AM PDT by Wuli
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To: Wuli

You missed the entire point of my post.


21 posted on 10/19/2023 10:39:21 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA (Rebuild the Temple.)
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