georgephillip
Diamond Member
Why have proposed increases in US military aid to Israel been spared from the budgetary chopping block?
When Dubya promised Israel $30 billion in US taxpayer funded weapons between 2009 and 2018, American home values had not been plundered of $7.8 trillion worth of value.
Why should low income Americans today face even more cutbacks in social services, higher prices for food and oil, and ever scarcer job prospects in order to subsidize Israeli human rights abuses against Palestinians?
Currently, 81 members of the US House of Representatives are in Israel bowing low before their Jewish masters instead of facing Town Hall heat over plans to plunder Social Security and Medicare. One such representative is Jesse Jackson Jr whose district includes 20% of his constituents living below the poverty line and facing unemployment levels of 15%.
"According to aidtoisrael.org, constituents in Illinois’ 2nd congressional district will be asked to cough up an astonishing $53 million in federal taxes as their pound of flesh for the Israeli military during this 10-year period.
"With this same amount of money, each year the federal government instead could give 650 low-income families housing vouchers, or retrain nearly 900 unemployed workers for green jobs, or fund early reading programs for nearly 1,600 at-risk children, or provide primary health care to more than 43,000 uninsured people in Rep. Jackson’s congressional district."
Robbing Peter to Pay Israel | Common Dreams
When Dubya promised Israel $30 billion in US taxpayer funded weapons between 2009 and 2018, American home values had not been plundered of $7.8 trillion worth of value.
Why should low income Americans today face even more cutbacks in social services, higher prices for food and oil, and ever scarcer job prospects in order to subsidize Israeli human rights abuses against Palestinians?
Currently, 81 members of the US House of Representatives are in Israel bowing low before their Jewish masters instead of facing Town Hall heat over plans to plunder Social Security and Medicare. One such representative is Jesse Jackson Jr whose district includes 20% of his constituents living below the poverty line and facing unemployment levels of 15%.
"According to aidtoisrael.org, constituents in Illinois’ 2nd congressional district will be asked to cough up an astonishing $53 million in federal taxes as their pound of flesh for the Israeli military during this 10-year period.
"With this same amount of money, each year the federal government instead could give 650 low-income families housing vouchers, or retrain nearly 900 unemployed workers for green jobs, or fund early reading programs for nearly 1,600 at-risk children, or provide primary health care to more than 43,000 uninsured people in Rep. Jackson’s congressional district."
Robbing Peter to Pay Israel | Common Dreams
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