The US Senate Appropriations Defense Subcommittee just approved the transfer of $351 million to Israel for the Iron Dome missile defense system — that will bring the appropriations this week for Israel to $621 million. There has been virtually no debate about such huge payments to another nation’s defense budget when cities and schools continue to cut back on programs for lack of fund. In Fairfax county, our kids are being placed in classes of over 30 kids with a single teacher because there is no money to hire more staff. Congress has cut historic programs and environmental projects for lack of a few million dollars but approves these transfers with little debate. It is not just Israel, as we have previously discussed, but the continuation of huge expenditures abroad in various countries from Pakistan to Iraq to Afghanistan to Egypt. It is not necessarily the ultimate appropriation decision as much as the lack of any discussion on such budgetary priorities and policies that is so striking.
Illinois Senator Dick Durbin, chairman of the subcommittee, pushed through the increase which will include funding Israel’s R & D work on a new generation of rocket.
In a relative blink, the move doubled the money going to the missile defense system protecting Israel. We previously discussed the lack of debate on the spending of billions to various countries given our worsening educational, environmental, and scientific programs. In one past case, Congress spent $100 million to build a new office facility for Israel and has continued to send billions to Iraq and Afghanistan even in the face of massive corruption and the disappearance of billions in aid.
Samantha, yet even with our awful terrible worthless healthcare in America…people ARE living longer.
bettykath, what is so wrong with taking a health care worker and putting to work in a school as a teacher? Or passing a food label law that forces corporations to make food that people really want? Every dollar that soft drink companies save by using high fructose corn syrup instead of natural sweetener, probably translates into $1000 of healthcare costs. What does this say about a society’s morals or the education level of the silent? My point is, the two trillion lost to the healthcare industry remains in the economy, doing not evil but good, no jobs lost. My great grandfather lived to almost 100 years, and it’s not like he didn’t spend his Saturday afternoons at the pool hall, smoking cigars, drinking beer, playing cards, all the while grandma was shopping and gossiping. She preceded him in death by nearly 20 years, after a lifelong addiction to sweets, and just plain over consumption of calories. He had never been to a doctor or in a hospital except to see his new kids when they were born. There is a message here: it’s ok to go overboard on Saturday afternoons, but not 3 times daily at the dinner table or McDonalds. No wonder everybody complains about health care. What healthy person really needs it anyway, short of accident or old age? I have to fall off my horse and break my neck before I’d want to go into a hospital where retards hire $8 an hour illegal aliens to clean surgical instruments, serve fast food, where nurses prefer gossip to patients, and where I’m more likely to die from an infection or medication than a broken neck. Everything about health care today stinks badly, an industry were the collective evils of the economy show up. The way the liar in chief campaigned, all these evils were supposed to be behind us by now. Instead, things are only exponentially worse.
Nick, relax. I’m not picking on you. Just making a point.
Fact Sheet: Jews Control America
http://www.realjewnews.com/?p=821
Remind me again why we need to send hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to a prosperous country??
U.S. Mainstream Media = Israeli Propaganda
9/11 Cover Up
http://www.bollyn.com/the-mass-media-the-9-11-cover-up
If America is not a dictatorial theocracy and is, in fact, in deed, governed by the Preamble, Constitution and Bill of Rights, how can this interminable and enormous effort to create and perpetuate an artificial nation in the Middle East that America derives absolutely no benefit from and has absolutely no national interests in, be prosecuted by American agencies and funded by taxpayers especially since the population was well assimilated and existed in the region for millennia before American intervention and arbitrary (i.e. nonsensical) manipulation.
Has anyone noticed that most major, historical decisions taken by America don’t have a positive outcome. Maybe America should stay home and leave well enough alone when our interests aren’t clear and directly affected; when there are no spoils to be had by the victor for the benefit of the nation.
Lennon/McCartney
“Let It Be”
Let it be,
Let it be,
Let it be,
Let it be,
There will be an answer,
Let it be.
The Zionist Jew 9/11 Cover Up
I do some light weight training also.
Samantha, Some people would love to see me die. If you catch my drift. Everything in moderation, Samantha. I NEVER said I was into bratwurst eating contests. I think all of those contests are stupid. I eat a Mediterranean diet. Lots of fruit, nuts and fish. Little dairy. Moderate meat. You are a food zealot. I love to poke zealots of all sorts. I’ll dance on your grave. What about exercise girl? I walk 5-10 miles a day. How ’bout you?
Annie, Nick quit smoking after he found out it was going to kill him. And when the Surgeon General tells him that bratwurst will, too, he’ll find something else to eat, & be better off and healthier.
Samantha, Michelle Obama agrees with you on educating the public on the dangers of soft drinks, fat, table sugar, etc. all she got for it was criticism. People will still choose to engage in unhealthy behavior.
Careful, Samantha, you’re going after lots of corporations, every one of those that are involved in the food industry, including those that make herbicides and pesticides and the entire medical complex that uses poisons to “cure” (no the poisons don’t cure, they just make you think they do) and that put those with insurance through lots of unnecessary tests.
You’re also right. We need to get rid of the pesticides, the processing, and the preservatives in our food. We might want to clean up more of the toxic sites caused by nuclear waste, coal ash, other industrial wastes and clean up farm land killed by pesticides and herbicides,
Our nation spends trillions on healthcare because we are the unhealthiest people on earth. Where’s the outcry? If you need more money in Fairfax County for schools, free up all the wasted healthcare dollars and you’ll have more than enough money left over to buy every student a car, too. You free up this money by making everyone healthy, in the same way the anti tobacco campaign prevents death. 90% of health issues are food and substance related, the other 10 % related to accident & old age. Educate on the dangers of soft drinks, fat, table salt, sugar, GMO foods, dangerous preservatives and food colorings, excessive protein consumption, etc., and within a matter of weeks, even days, people begin feeling better and are amost immediately healthier. By years end half the doctors and hospitals would be bankrupt, and you’d have 2 trillion dollars to do a lot of good, that is, if you do not vote for someone again to piss it all away for you.
Congress can only agree to send billions to Israel while it decimates an entire group of people? What about the refugee children? what about our own infrastructure? They have to play games to fund the transportation fund but there’s plenty of money for Israel to upgrade a defense system that has proven to be sufficient? ignorant Congress goddamn. (play on Nina Simone’s Mississippi Goddamn.)
What about the other humanitarian crisis? Detroit has turned off water for 100,000 people? Heck, we are becoming a nation of refugees. But I guess if you ramp up world events it is a good distraction. Meanwhile, we’ll keep borrowing from our future masters to give it to someone else.
Never mind that the Iron Dome’s success rate is largely propaganda
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-21751766
Since we need to borrow the money from China to give it to other countries, why don’t we make these loans to the other countries instead of gifts?
Work for energy independence. Wash our hands of the Middle East and let them sort out their problems.
I read half a dozen blogs (plus comments) addressing public policy and with all of them the majority of commenters view Zionism as over-reaching, racist, and in effect, committing genocide against Palestinians. Why the wide gap between public perception and government perception? Is there something we are not being told about why the US govt so strongly favors this particular instance of genocide?
Yea, let’s not forget: Obama urgently asks $3.7 Billion for border crisis
I’d rather see some of that money going to American public education too.