House Passes 40 Billion Cuts to Food Stamps (New York, Cairo: buy, contractor)
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You mean like all the corporate welfare "foreign aid" money that is "given" to places like Israel and Egypt,where the money never leaves the US but goes directly from the Federal Reserve to arms and weapons manufacturers right here at home ?
You mean like all the corporate welfare "foreign aid" money that is "given" to places like Israel and Egypt,where the money never leaves the US but goes directly from the Federal Reserve to arms and weapons manufacturers right here at home,who then ship their missiles,rifles and tanks at ridiculously inflated prices?
Yep,
JUST like that.
And all the money the poor get for medical care. Wait, it is the doctors, hospitals, and insurance companies that actually get the money.
In the words of the incomparable Emily Litella: "Never Mind."
Last edited by Kefir King; 09-22-2013 at 08:07 AM..
"Every year, the U.S. Congress appropriates more than $1 billion in military aid to Egypt. But that money never gets to Egypt. It goes to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, then to a trust fund at the Treasury and, finally, out to U.S. military contractors that make the tanks and fighter jets that ultimately get sent to Egypt."
"There's no conceivable scenario in which they'd need all those tanks short of an alien invasion," Shana Marshall of the Institute of Middle East Studies at George Washington University, told me."
"They are crated up and then they sit in deep storage, and that's where they remain," he told me.
The story with F-16 fighter jets is similar. Since 1980, we've sent Egypt 221 fighter jets, valued at $8 billion. "Our American military advisers in Cairo have for many years been advising against further acquisitions of F-16s," Springborg said. Egypt already has more F-16s than it needs, he said.
The scenario is the same for Israel and every other country we give "aid" to.Billions and billions and billions of taxpayer money used every year to produce weapons nobody needs to keep the defense contractors in business.
Eisenhower labeled it the military industrial complex and warned about it 50 years ago.It's still humming along bigger than ever.WTF do you think all these wars are about?
"Every year, the U.S. Congress appropriates more than $1 billion in military aid to Egypt. But that money never gets to Egypt. It goes to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, then to a trust fund at the Treasury and, finally, out to U.S. military contractors that make the tanks and fighter jets that ultimately get sent to Egypt."
"There's no conceivable scenario in which they'd need all those tanks short of an alien invasion," Shana Marshall of the Institute of Middle East Studies at George Washington University, told me."
"They are crated up and then they sit in deep storage, and that's where they remain," he told me.
The story with F-16 fighter jets is similar. Since 1980, we've sent Egypt 221 fighter jets, valued at $8 billion. "Our American military advisers in Cairo have for many years been advising against further acquisitions of F-16s," Springborg said. Egypt already has more F-16s than it needs, he said.
The scenario is the same for Israel and every other country we give "aid" to.Billions and billions and billions of taxpayer money used every year to produce weapons nobody needs to keep the defense contractors in business.
Eisenhower labeled it the military industrial complex and warned about it 50 years ago.It's still humming along bigger than ever.WTF do you think all these wars are about?
Eisenhower labeled it the military industrial complex and warned about it 50 years ago.It's still humming along bigger than ever. WTF do you think all these wars are about?
As have many cultural critics.
This has been a factor in earnest since WW II, grounds laid during WW I.
Never been on fewd stamps or even collected unemloyment FTW!
I'll admit I'm a left leaner on most issues, but I when I lived in NY back in 2010, it really did challenge me a bit to have to witness how ingrained government assistance is into the culture over there. Almost every person in line at the supermarket would bust out their benefit card for the groceries. Admittedly I didn't live on the Upper East Side, but it seemed like if you were a brown person that didn't speak fluent english, they got you covered!
Last edited by UrbanAdventurer; 09-22-2013 at 10:36 AM..
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