US foreign aid (using your tax money)

[CowBoE 429]

These figures are for 2012, and I'm sure it's more now...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_foreign_aid

I'm very surprised that we spent ~$13B for Afghanistan, ~$3B for Israel, and even $1/2B for Russia.

I wonder how much of that $13B in Afghanistan gets inadvertently used to fight against us?

Why are we funding ~$3B to Israel? Is it because we have many Jew politicians?

Why are we funding $1/2B to Russia? I thought we were at enemy stance?

Edited February 19, 2015 by DualityOneness

[decocker 7,198]

hey now. building an empire aint cheap.

[LibCampFireClub 635]

The young lad needs some knee pads to better enable him to finish giving it all away to the people he considers most important.

[decocker 7,198]

The young lad needs some knee pads to better enable him to finish giving it all away to the people he considers most important.

how many folks has saudi arabia beheaded in the past few years? murica loves saudi arabia.

bush was also on his knees, mouth agape as per his normal "duh" stance.

[LibCampFireClub 635]

Yeah, those Saudi boys get a little rambunctious at times. The better to BOW to them:

[decocker 7,198]

Yeah, those Saudi boys get a little rambunctious at times. The better to BOW to them:

you have a very loose grasp of world events, that's for damn sure.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

how many folks has saudi arabia beheaded in the past few years? murica loves saudi arabia.

bush was also on his knees, mouth agape as per his normal "duh" stance.

They've executed almost 30 people thus far this year. At least 3 of these executions were beheadings - probably a lot more but those three made the news for two of them were non-Saudi nationals and the other was a woman publicly beheaded in the middle of the street in Mecca. From one of the articles...

Saudi officials execute convicts by sword and then dangle their corpses from a helicopter to make sure the public could see the result of the execution.

In other words, a dreamworld for the bunker crowd.

[LibCampFireClub 635]

Your boy's got your back. Keep it real and buy the world a coke:

[ready4ONE 5,400]

And thus, dear VJ CEHST-POOL fans, is how a post regarding US foreign aid expenditures (for three countries, none of them Saudi Arabia) becomes a drivaling snipe fest of anti-Obama cheap shots from the cheap seats.

The USA has consistently budgeted foreign aid? Can't be true of Republican Administrations! Oh wait! Yeah, reality striking again.

[lostinblue 1,989]

The United States – which has averaged $200 million a year in aid to Yemen