When will we get politicians who actually give a shit about AMERICANS before their masters pulling the strings in Israel? Never I am afraid. We have DEFINITELY failed to listen to our founders wise words about entangling alliances with other countries.
While I am not opposed to carefully considering how much money in AID we give.....
I think the problem is that there is an implication that somehow cutting $3 Billion in the budget, is going to make a difference in our lives.
That's retarded.
We spend on just Social Security, $1,950 Million a day. And you think saving $11 Million given to Israel is going to change the lives of US citizens? It's not.
Now I get it, it does seem like maybe if we're trillions of dollars in debt, we shouldn't be tossing money all over the globe.
However, your link has them talking about free education, and free health care.
What a joke. You think $11 Million is going to pay for any of that? Not even close.
And let's back up a bit here... You need to grasp that most of this AID ends up coming back. In fact nearly all of it.
It call comes back in either Israeli purchases of older US hardware from the government, or in new sales form US manufacturers.
Additionally, while the idiot in the link talks about free education and health care, they are implying that Israelis are getting these things free off of our tax money.
This is ridiculous. The Israeli citizens are paying heavily for those things. The tax rate, for just Social Security and Public Health insurance, is 20% of their pay. Additionally, that income doesn't cover the full cost of health care, which has to be subsidized by general tax revenue, where free education is also paid for. General income tax in Israel is quite high. People earning just $30K a year, are in the 20% tax bracket, and those in the $50K range, are paying 30% of their income in taxes.
In short, the average Israeli citizen is losing half their check in taxes. There is nothing "free" about it. In fact, it is vastly more costly to the average citizen in Israeli, than our private insurance is here in the US.
And the real kicker of course, is that 87% of all adults in Israel, have Private insurance, in addition to their public system. This is one of the biggest ironies of all the pro-government-insurance people, is that they all live in this mythology that if you have government funding health insurance, or health care, that all your bills go away, and have this magic system of utopian bliss.
Instead we nearly always see the opposite. You end up with the public losing half their check in taxes to pay for the public system, which turns out so bad, that most people end up paying for private insurance anyway. Of course that makes the poor poorer, because only the rich and upper middle class can afford to pay the taxes for an expensive public system, and then pay the premiums for a quality private system.
The poor are simply left to die, in garbage public system, and impoverished from the taxes to pay for that system.
