17 billion dollars may not be such a bad deal - Does anyone know how many
billions of dollars the U.S. spends in Military assistance to Israel, Egypt,
Saudi Arabia and other Middle East allies each year. Does anyone know how much
the U.S. spends each year supporting the Seventh Fleet in the Persian Gulf?
The U.S. Government spends approximately 1 TRILLION (1,000 Billion) Dollars on
defense spending each year - how much of that goes toward protecting our
"National Security" interests in the Middle East?
In addition to the political posturing that permeates Middle East politics,
there is also a real and substantial cost to U.S. taxpayers. Perhaps long-term
stability in this region of the world could save taxpayers 17 billion dollars
many times over.
LBC Content: Is there a British sports car club that meets in the Sacramento
area?
Greg Tanner
'57 TR3 TS17392L
P.S. Lawrie, I completely agree with you on the national shame of homelessness
and hunger still widespread in this country
-----Original Message-----
From: British Sportscar Center [SMTP:mgpa@calweb.com]
Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2000 10:24 AM
To: mgs@autox.team.net
Cc: british-cars-pre-war@autox.team.net
Subject: OT - US Govt. squandering our $$$
I realise this is not LBC-related (though I'd have more money to spend on my
collection if I didn't have to pay such high taxes), but I choose this forum
to voice my opinion in the hope that others will agree and perhaps steer me
(or all of us) into ways to communicate our dissatisfaction to the
decision-makers.
So the US Govt. is attempting to broker a peace deal between Israel and
Syria? Fine, I'm all in favor of anything that prevents people killing each
other. But, the news reports say, the successful accomplishment of a deal
will probably result in the US Govt. (that is, you and I, the taxpayers)
paying 17 Billion Dollars to Israel to enable them to build homes for the
people they have to move from the Golan Heights to make Syria happy.
Seventeen Billion Dollars? If the Israelis agree that they need to give up
that territory, isn't that an admission that they shouldn't have been there
in the first place? We, the US citizens, should have to pay Seventeen
Billion Dollars to correct their mistake? Isn't there, perhaps, a homeless
problem in this country that could be somewhat lessened by the application
of Seventeen Billion Dollars? Don't our homeless deserve somewhere to live?
I find this belief by our elected officials that they can just commit such
huge sums to foreign countries when we have many prior needs here at home,
to be totally irresponsible.
Am I alone in this? Can we all write or e-mail someone to put this point
across? Anyone got any ideas how we can fight this?
And if you think I should not use this Bulletin Board to discuss politics,
yeah, OK, I stand rebuked. Don't bother to write and tell me. I figure I
give enough free LBC advice from time to time on this Board that I'm allowed
a rant once in a while.....................
Lawrie Alexander
British Sportscar Center
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