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Title: Olympics Kick Off With Tribute to Socialized Medicine
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Published: Jul 28, 2012
Author: Tad Cronn
Post Date: 2012-07-28 10:16:20 by CZ82
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Olympics Kick Off With Tribute to Socialized Medicine posted on July 28, 2012 by Tad Cronn God bless the Brits. Theirs was the country that gave birth to the United States. Of course, the British did that chiefly through gross abuse and neglect of the colonists’ needs and wants. Which makes it doubly laughable to see the Olympics’ Opening Ceremony give time to the praise of socialized medicine. In case you missed it, the Olympic field was filled with giant hospital beds on which “sick” children were jumping and doing somersaults while their state nurses and doctors danced around them in loving tribute to the National Health System. I could imagine King Obama sitting at home at the White House, saying to Michelle, “That’s what I wanted. Why didn’t I get that?” Unfortunately, Britain didn’t get that either. According to surveys of the British medical system: ■Only 10 percent of hospitals met hygiene standards. ■About 20 percent of hospitals did not properly sterilize medical instruments. ■One in 8 did not properly isolate patients with infectious disaeases. ■One in 5 patients being treated for bypass surgery did not receive proper care. Among those who died, many of them did so because the staff were slow to recognize deteriorating symptoms and there were delays in getting doctors to see them. There are horror stories galore from Britain’s health system, like the woman who pulled her own teeth because she was sick of trying to find a dentist who would take new patients. Or the woman who was denied free health care because she made the mistake of paying for a life-saving drug outside the system. Or pregnant women giving birth being turned away from hospitals due to staffing shortages. At least until Obamacare, the U.S. health system didn’t report any of the same types of problems as Britain. Now, thanks to Obamacare, more people will be uninsured, businesses will be cutting jobs, the nation faces higher taxes, and doctors are refusing new patients or getting out of the business altogether. If anything, our problem is that too many liberals were already jumping up and down on their beds to bother reading the monstrosity they put into law. Of course, the opening also featured Mary Poppins defeating Lord Voldemort, along with some really great fireworks, so I can’t really get too worked up about a little liberal fantasy. Poster Comment: I'll bet lucysmom and mininggold were so proud when they watched this last night!!
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O YEah.... just like the Planet Earth will still be here....btw... after the humans acting just like yeast...get treated just like ..... yeast. 2012...Hottest Year Ever....and one of the Last Good ones....;}
No numbers. So you couldn't put up. So shut up.
That you refuse to understand as your position has been bought and paid for ;) in No Way undermines my arguement. Israel fields the 4th Largest Military in the World while having an economy smaller than Greece. And absoluteley No One Calling for them to Default on anything. While exporting nothing but Children, Citrus, and Palestinian kidneys.....;} All Day long i can do this.... CZ saw the abyss...I don't think you do, A K....;}
Health Care Lessons From Israel - Short Stack voices.washingtonpost.com Sep 24, 2009 – The law guarantees every Israeli a relatively broad health care basket of services. The Israeli system combines the advantages of single payer ... So it is with great pleasure and a heavy heart that I call your attention to the Hon. Ambassador Michael McFaul’s most recent diplomatic flub (h/t to the good folks at opposition-owned Newsru.com). Earlier this month, on the eve of Independence Day, McFaul cheerfully tweeted out to his 26,000+ followers: “I’ll be in Yekaterinburg for the InnoProm Exhibition.” Only problem is, Amb. McFaul didn’t write “Yekaterinburg.” For some reason, McFaul got the brilliant idea of replacing “Yekaterinburg” with “Yoburg” (Ёбург), meaning “Fuckberg,” or “Fuckville.” Where your headed if you keep this up, A K.....;}
Looking for the Money quote, A K..... so far so good.... "Medical tourists choose Israel for several reasons. Some come from nations such as Romania and Cyprus where certain procedures are not available. Others come to Israel, perhaps most commonly from the US, because they can receive quality health care at a fraction of the cost it would be at home, for both surgeries and in-vitro fertilization procedures."=Wiki That would be Dual Passport folks.....;}
" While most refer to Israel's healthcare system as socialized medicine, some say it's actually a mixed bag. Dr. Bruce Rosen, director of the Smokler Center for Health Policy Research in Jerusalem, spoke with CBN News about Israel's health care system. "Most of the financing [is] coming from the government and that's good because that makes sure that the system is equitable and everybody has access," Dr. Rosen said. But the system works, Rosen says, because there is market-style competition. Each citizen chooses from four non-governmental providers, called a kupat cholim (literally, "sick funds," the U.S. equivalent of "health care" providers). By law, the kupat cholim must provide a benefits package that covers hospitalization and doctors' visits. The co-payment for most drugs is nominal. Procedures ranging from in vitro fertilization to liver transplants are provided to anyone in the system, usually without a long wait. Israeli System Preferred The system is paid for mostly through income taxes. Even though Israelis pay much higher taxes than Americans, many who have received care under both prefer the Israeli system. "I was in America the past three years and I'm a lot more satisfied with the health system here, especially [since] I have three kids and I visit doctors for all different reasons. I find them easy to access, very easy to get to," Havi Simmering told CBN News. Dennis Gordon agreed. "It's great. It controls prices. It has really good standards of care. Everything is really based on best care, best practices and you get what you need. You don't necessarily get nice waiting rooms, but you get everything else," he said." Still looking for that price tag.
The numbers. The cost of the total system. It better be less then 5 billion or you are a proved liar. That also means we don't give them money for military. You can't spend a dollar twice. You can sell your food stamps though.
Do what...keep evading Stone's questions with more Mc-Bull-shit? Lolz.
You pulled 5 billion out of ass.....;} Sources...a K...Sources $5 Billion would Not cover the First Day of 40 F16's bombing Lebanon for the Litani River in July 2006.....LMFAO....8D
Do what...keep evading Stone's questions with more Mc-Bull-shit? Lolz. And General Abdication, Major Defeat and Lt Armageddonwithit reporting for Duty....SIR.....;} "http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/insideisrael/2009/July/Israeli-Health-Care-A-Model-For-the-US/ "Every citizen is insured [and it] doesn't matter if he has money or doesn't have money. Everyone has to pay health tax, which is around 5 percent of his salary. But if he has no income, he still gets the same service," the professor said.
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It is less then 5 billion. We used to give them about 5 billion. I can pull the numbers out. It is you that pulls numbers out of your ass. Along with other things. http://www.vaughns-1-pagers.com/politics/us-foreign-aid.htm 3,175 million. Like I said you are not the least bit informed. You are just some loser sitting in moms basement that is jealous of people who have things that work for a living. McLoser The tone towards you will change when you answer the question I asked the other day. Until then you are Mclameloser
That also means we don't give them money for military. Un FCukingbelievable. I can't even believe you had the balls to type that. Any body else here at LF won't to jump in here for A K A Stone's benefit?
But see, now that's a problem, Why??? They aren't dressing that way to be respectful, they're dressing that way because they're spinless and weak minded... (just like multi-culturalists)!!!
Choosing and voting for a presidential candidate is like picking which STD you want to suffer from….
That also means we don't give them money for military. Un FCukingbelievable. I can't even believe you had the balls to type that. Any body else here at LF won't to jump in here for A K A Stone's benefit? Mcballsucker if we give them 3.x billion for their healthcare system. There isn't any left over for the military. Their health care system costs much more then that. I don't expect you to answer any questions as you are to f'in stupid. You are just the whippin boy here. Only a loser with no math skills would claim we pay for their healthcare system then their military too. Must be that new Obama math that you learned while down on your knees.
We now enter the 'I reserve the right to revise and extend my remarks' arena. A most beautiful Forensics Coloseum...just got thru it's latest renovation. See Boehner/Cantor Israel Uber alles for details....;} On the Amount of Wealth the USSA transfers to Israel on an ANnual basis. To start: # Presenting The Fundamental Flaw In The Fed's Thinking | ZeroHedge http://www.zerohedge.com/news/pr...-flaw-feds-thinking Jun 20, 2012 – In simpler format: Frontrun what the Fed has publicly telegraphed to be doing ... Profit. And as long as the Fed continues on the course of LSAP, ... Jesse's Café Américain: JPM Front Runs the Fed, Raises Dividend ... jessescrossroadscafe.blog...ission-to-jp-mor...Cached You +1'd this publicly. Undo Mar 13, 2012 – JPM Front Runs the Fed, Raises Dividend, Announces $15B Stock Buyback - MBA's Are Passé. At least two of the big US banks have decided ... The Information Underground • View topic - Banks Front-run ... http://theinfounderground.com/fo...iewtopic.php?f=33&t=15873 1 post - 1 author - Mar 15 On September 21, 2011 in a Federal Reserve Press Release the Fed announced "Operation Twist" ... Banks Front Run the Trade <$> Image ... Fed to Money Market Funds: Get Your Money Out of Europe www.economicpolicyjournal...-money-market-funds-get... May 28, 2012 – The Federal Reserve is telling money market funds to pull money out of Europe. ... shop has the cajones/ becomes the conduit to front run the Fed and .... Vote to Extend $9 Billion in Loan Guarantees for the Benefit of Israel ... ATTN: Vote to Extend $9 Billion in Loan Guarantees for the Benefit of Israel ... And THAT does NOT include your $5 Billion #, A K....;}
There is ALWAYS $$$ left over for Israel's 4 th Largest military in the world.
And from now on it's Mister Jimmie to you, asshole.....;} Heavy on the Mister....
So we are going to loan them money. Good investment. Hint even if that was a gift it wouldn't cover their medical and military. You can't have it both ways.
Ahhh yes Socialism, isn't it grand!!! Socialism is for morons, both the rulers and the ruled.... for neither could exist without the other!! (Birds of a feather flock together)....
Choosing and voting for a presidential candidate is like picking which STD you want to suffer from….
Isreal is about to open a can of whoop ass on your muslim friends. But they deserve it. Gotta love them Jews. Bibi is a great leader. I would rather have him then the African that usurps in the White House.
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Well. It would be if Israel.... Wait.For. IT..... EVER Paid Any of IT BACK....with Interest!....;}
Congress regularly forgives Israel for loans over and above outright gifts ... the idea of a periodic wiping out of all debts of the people isn't a bad idea.
Well, if the Top 1% allowed Anyone in the Bottom 99%ile to have it.... why yes then...;}
Jubilee is an idea out of the Bible. Better keep it hush or the flake website might ban you.
Nobody ever said the Muslims were smart, it has something to do with their religion I believe!!!
Choosing and voting for a presidential candidate is like picking which STD you want to suffer from….
Oh yes. The pedophile worshipers. Bunch of sickos if you ask me.
Children, Citrus, and Palestinian kidneys.....;} Dick Cheney has a Palestinian heart? He had pali kidney pie for breakfast.
Obama's watch stopped on 24 May 2008, but he's been too busy smoking crack to notice.
AND NOW WE'RE TO IT. And just like your Masters.... you've run out of arguement..... Violence it is..... Now that the democratic opposition, the overseas agitators of the Syrian National Congress, and the insurrectionists of the Free Syrian Army have all taken their shot at the Assad regime and failed, at least for the time being, attention is once again turning to "the Yemen solution", a k.a. regime restructuring featuring the symbolic removal of an embattled strongman, lip service toward democratic reform, and the continuation of business as usual under a selected junta of more palatable regime strongmen. Or, as the Syrian National Council put it on July 24: "We would agree to the departure of Assad and the transfer of his powers to a regime figure, who would lead a transitional period like what happened in Yemen," SNC spokesman Georges Sabra told AFP. [5] The SNC's statement found a prompt echo from US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, according to Xinhua: " It’s 1980s Afghanistan all over again. The over 100 heavily armed gangs engaged in civil war in Syria are overflowing with Gulf Cooperation Council funds financing their Russian RPGs bought on the black market. Salafi-jihadis cross into Syria in droves — not only from Iraq but also Kuwait, Algeria, Tunisia and Pakistan, following enraged calls by their imams. Kidnapping, raping and slaughtering pro-Assad regime civilians is becoming the law of the land. They go after Christians with a vengeance. They force Iraqi exiles in Damascus to leave, especially those settled in Sayyida Zainab, the predominantly Shi’ite neighborhood named after Prophet Muhammad’s grand-daughter, buried in the beautiful local mosque. The BBC, to its credit, at least followed the story. They perform summary executions; Iraq’s deputy interior minister Adnan al-Assadi told AFP how Iraqi border guards saw the Free Syrian Army (FSA) take control of a border outpost and then “executed 22 Syrian soldiers in front of the eyes of Iraqi soldiers”. " First I would like to talk about one of the incidents that took place in July war so as to reveal an Israeli failure and an Israeli delusion even regarding the people of the Zionist entity. On the other hand, it reveals a qualitative achievement by the Resistance in July war which we have not talked about during the past years for several reasons. Today the requirements help that we tackle this incident. The second point is the post July War era and this will especially lead us to tackle the regional scene. Third we will tackle the internal Lebanese situation in which I will point to several quick topics. On the sixth anniversary, the enemy – all of Israel along with its politicians, military men, generals, parties, people and public opinion – is still under the impact of the shock of the sudden defeat which inflicted it in 2006. Indeed in the Resistance, we are not concerned with those from here or there who do not accept to say that what took place was a defeat for the enemy. I am interested in that the enemy views it as a defeat because my war and struggle are with the Israelis. As for what others say and whether they acknowledge that or not, that has other analyses and considerations. " Tell the USSA/Israel/UK to attack....Now... You've got 12 hours to win your next war... Sincerely, Mister Jimmie. Message from Nassrula and Hizbollah, the Syrian Army, IRan, Russia and China, and the Bottom 99%..... "
He has someone's....definitely not his....;}
Obama signs Israel security bill ahead of Romney visit 2009: The Cost of Israel to US Taxpayers By Richard H. Curtiss Former U.S. Foreign Service Officer October 03, 2009 "WRMEA" -- For many years the American media said that “Israel receives $1.8 billion in military aid” or that “Israel receives $1.2 billion in economic aid.” Both statements were true, but since they were never combined to give us the complete total of annual U.S. aid to Israel, they also were lies—true lies. Recently Americans have begun to read and hear that “Israel receives $3 billion in annual U.S. foreign aid.” That's true. But it's still a lie. The problem is that in fiscal 1997 alone, Israel received from a variety of other U.S. federal budgets at least $525.8 million above and beyond its $3 billion from the foreign aid budget, and yet another $2 billion in federal loan guarantees. So the complete total of U.S. grants and loan guarantees to Israel for fiscal 1997 was $5,525,800,000. One can truthfully blame the mainstream media for never digging out these figures for themselves, because none ever have. They were compiled by the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs. But the mainstream media certainly are not alone. Although Congress authorizes America's foreign aid total, the fact that more than a third of it goes to a country smaller in both area and population than Hong Kong probably never has been mentioned on the floor of the Senate or House. Yet it's been going on for more than a generation. Probably the only members of Congress who even suspect the full total of U.S. funds received by Israel each year are the privileged few committee members who actually mark it up. And almost all members of the concerned committees are Jewish, have taken huge campaign donations orchestrated by Israel's Washington, DC lobby, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), or both. These congressional committee members are paid to act, not talk. So they do and they don't. The same applies to the president, the secretary of state, and the foreign aid administrator. They all submit a budget that includes aid for Israel, which Congress approves, or increases, but never cuts. But no one in the executive branch mentions that of the few remaining U.S. aid recipients worldwide, all of the others are developing nations which either make their military bases available to the U.S., are key members of international alliances in which the U.S. participates, or have suffered some crippling blow of nature to their abilities to feed their people such as earthquakes, floods or droughts. Israel, whose troubles arise solely from its unwillingness to give back land it seized in the 1967 war in return for peace with its neighbors, does not fit those criteria. In fact, Israel's 1995 per capita gross domestic product was $15,800. That put it below Britain at $19,500 and Italy at $18,700 and just above Ireland at $15,400 and Spain at $14,300. All four of those European countries have contributed a very large share of immigrants to the U.S., yet none has organized an ethnic group to lobby for U.S. foreign aid. Instead, all four send funds and volunteers to do economic development and emergency relief work in other less fortunate parts of the world. The lobby that Israel and its supporters have built in the United States to make all this aid happen, and to ban discussion of it from the national dialogue, goes far beyond AIPAC, with its $15 million budget, its 150 employees, and its five or six registered lobbyists who manage to visit every member of Congress individually once or twice a year. AIPAC, in turn, can draw upon the resources of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, a roof group set up solely to coordinate the efforts of some 52 national Jewish organizations on behalf of Israel. Among them are Hadassah, the Zionist women’s organization, which organizes a steady stream of American Jewish visitors to Israel; the American Jewish Congress, which mobilizes support for Israel among members of the traditionally left-of-center Jewish mainstream; and the American Jewish Committee, which plays the same role within the growing middle-of-the-road and right-of-center Jewish community. The American Jewish Committee also publishes Commentary, one of the Israel lobby’s principal national publications. Perhaps the most controversial of these groups is B’nai B’rith’s Anti-Defamation League. Its original highly commendable purpose was to protect the civil rights of American Jews. Over the past generation, however, the ADL has regressed into a conspiratorial and, with a $45 million budget, extremely well funded hate group. In the 1980s, during the tenure of chairman Seymour Reich, who went on to become chairman of the Conference of Presidents, ADL was found to have circulated two annual fund-raising letters warning Jewish parents against allegedly negative influences on their children arising from the increasing Arab presence on American university campuses. More recently, FBI raids on ADL’s Los Angeles and San Francisco offices revealed that an ADL operative had purchased files stolen from the San Francisco police department that a court had ordered destroyed because they violated the civil rights of the individuals on whom they had been compiled. ADL, it was shown, had added the illegally prepared and illegally obtained material to its own secret files, compiled by planting informants among Arab-American, African-American, anti-Apartheid and peace and justice groups. The ADL infiltrators took notes of the names and remarks of speakers and members of audiences at programs organized by such groups. ADL agents even recorded the license plates of persons attending such programs and then suborned corrupt motor vehicles department employees or renegade police officers to identify the owners. Although one of the principal offenders fled the United States to escape prosecution, no significant penalties were assessed. ADL’s Northern California office was ordered to comply with requests by persons upon whom dossiers had been prepared to see their own files, but no one went to jail and as yet no one has paid fines. Not surprisingly, a defecting employee revealed in an article he published in the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs that AIPAC, too, has such “enemies” files. They are compiled for use by pro-Israel journalists like Steven Emerson and other so-called “Terrorism experts,” and also by professional, academic or journalistic rivals of the persons described for use in blacklisting, defaming, or denouncing them. What is never revealed is that AIPAC’s “opposition research“ department, under the supervision of Michael Lewis, son of famed Princeton University Orientalist Bernard Lewis, is the source of this defamatory material. But this is not AIPAC’s most controversial activity. In the 1970s, when Congress put a cap on the amount its members could earn from speakers’ fees and book royalties over and above their salaries, it halted AIPAC’s most effective ways of paying off members for voting according to AIPAC recommendations. Members of AIPAC’s national board of directors solved the problem by returning to their home states and creating political action committees (PACs). Most special interests have PACs, as do many major corporations, labor unions, trade associations and public-interest groups. But the pro-Israel groups went wild. To date some 126 pro-Israel PACs have been registered, and no fewer than 50 have been active in every national election over the past generation. An individual voter can give up to $2,000 to a candidate in an election cycle, and a PAC can give a candidate up to $10,000. However, a single special interest with 50 PACs can give a candidate who is facing a tough opponent, and who has voted according to its recommendations, up to half a million dollars. That’s enough to buy all the television time needed to get elected in most parts of the country. Even candidates who don’t need this kind of money certainly don’t want it to become available to a rival from their own party in a primary election, or to an opponent from the opposing party in a general election. As a result, all but a handful of the 535 members of the Senate and House vote as AIPAC instructs when it comes to aid to Israel, or other aspects of U.S. Middle East policy. There is something else very special about AIPAC’s network of political action committees. Nearly all have deceptive names. Who could possibly know that the Delaware Valley Good Government Association in Philadelphia, San Franciscans for Good Government in California, Cactus PAC in Arizona, Beaver PAC in Wisconsin, and even Icepac in New York are really pro-Israel PACs under deep cover? Hiding AIPAC’s Tracks In fact, the congress members know it when they list the contributions they receive on the campaign statements they have to prepare for the Federal Election Commission. But their constituents don’t know this when they read these statements. So just as no other special interest can put so much “hard money” into any candidate’s election campaign as can the Israel lobby, no other special interest has gone to such elaborate lengths to hide its tracks. Although AIPAC, Washington’s most feared special-interest lobby, can hide how it uses both carrots and sticks to bribe or intimidate members of Congress, it can’t hide all of the results. Anyone can ask one of their representatives in Congress for a chart prepared by the Congressional Research Service, a branch of the Library of Congress, that shows Israel received $62.5 billion in foreign aid from fiscal year 1949 through fiscal year 1996. People in the national capital area also can visit the library of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) in Rosslyn, Virginia, and obtain the same information, plus charts showing how much foreign aid the U.S. has given other countries as well. Visitors will learn that in precisely the same 1949-1996 time frame, the total of U.S. foreign aid to all of the countries of sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean combined was $62,497,800,000--almost exactly the amount given to tiny Israel. According to the Population Reference Bureau of Washington, DC, in mid-1995 the sub-Saharan countries had a combined population of 568 million. The $24,415,700,000 in foreign aid they had received by then amounted to $42.99 per sub-Saharan African. Similarly, with a combined population of 486 million, all of the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean together had received $38,254,400,000. This amounted to $79 per person. The per capita U.S. foreign aid to Israel’s 5.8 million people during the same period was $10,775.48. This meant that for every dollar the U.S. spent on an African, it spent $250.65 on an Israeli, and for every dollar it spent on someone from the Western Hemisphere outside the United States, it spent $214 on an Israeli. Shocking Comparisons These comparisons already seem shocking, but they are far from the whole truth. Using reports compiled by Clyde Mark of the Congressional Research Service and other sources, freelance writer Frank Collins tallied for the Washington Report all of the extra items for Israel buried in the budgets of the Pentagon and other federal agencies in fiscal year 1993.Washington Report news editor Shawn Twing did the same thing for fiscal years 1996 and 1997. They uncovered $1.271 billion in extras in FY 1993, $355.3 million in FY 1996 and $525.8 million in FY 1997. These represent an average increase of 12.2 percent over the officially recorded foreign aid totals for the same fiscal years, and they probably are not complete. It’s reasonable to assume, therefore, that a similar 12.2 percent hidden increase has prevailed over all of the years Israel has received aid. As of Oct. 31, 1997 Israel will have received $3.05 billion in U.S. foreign aid for fiscal year 1997 and $3.08 billion in foreign aid for fiscal year 1998. Adding the 1997 and 1998 totals to those of previous years since 1949 yields a total of $74,157,600,000 in foreign aid grants and loans. Assuming that the actual totals from other budgets average 12.2 percent of that amount, that brings the grand total to $83,204,827,200. But that’s not quite all. Receiving its annual foreign aid appropriation during the first month of the fiscal year, instead of in quarterly installments as do other recipients, is just another special privilege Congress has voted for Israel. It enables Israel to invest the money in U.S. Treasury notes. That means that the U.S., which has to borrow the money it gives to Israel, pays interest on the money it has granted to Israel in advance, while at the same time Israel is collecting interest on the money. That interest to Israel from advance payments adds another $1.650 billion to the total, making it $84,854,827,200.That’s the number you should write down for total aid to Israel. And that’s $14,346 each for each man, woman and child in Israel. It’s worth noting that that figure does not include U.S. government loan guarantees to Israel, of which Israel has drawn $9.8 billion to date. They greatly reduce the interest rate the Israeli government pays on commercial loans, and they place additional burdens on U.S. taxpayers, especially if the Israeli government should default on any of them. But since neither the savings to Israel nor the costs to U.S. taxpayers can be accurately quantified, they are excluded from consideration here. Further, friends of Israel never tire of saying that Israel has never defaulted on repayment of a U.S. government loan. It would be equally accurate to say Israel has never been required to repay a U.S. government loan. The truth of the matter is complex, and designed to be so by those who seek to conceal it from the U.S. taxpayer. Most U.S. loans to Israel are forgiven, and many were made with the explicit understanding that they would be forgiven before Israel was required to repay them. By disguising as loans what in fact were grants, cooperating members of Congress exempted Israel from the U.S. oversight that would have accompanied grants. On other loans, Israel was expected to pay the interest and eventually to begin repaying the principal. But the so-called Cranston Amendment, which has been attached by Congress to every foreign aid appropriation since 1983, provides that economic aid to Israel will never dip below the amount Israel is required to pay on its outstanding loans. In short, whether U.S. aid is extended as grants or loans to Israel, it never returns to the Treasury. Israel enjoys other privileges. While most countries receiving U.S. military aid funds are expected to use them for U.S. arms, ammunition and training, Israel can spend part of these funds on weapons made by Israeli manufacturers. Also, when it spends its U.S. military aid money on U.S. products, Israel frequently requires the U.S. vendor to buy components or materials from Israeli manufacturers. Thus, though Israeli politicians say that their own manufacturers and exporters are making them progressively less dependent upon U.S. aid, in fact those Israeli manufacturers and exporters are heavily subsidized by U.S. aid. Although it’s beyond the parameters of this study, it’s worth mentioning that Israel also receives foreign aid from some other countries. After the United States, the principal donor of both economic and military aid to Israel is Germany. By far the largest component of German aid has been in the form of restitution payments to victims of Nazi atrocities. But there also has been extensive German military assistance to Israel during and since the Gulf war, and a variety of German educational and research grants go to Israeli institutions. The total of German assistance in all of these categories to the Israeli government, Israeli individuals and Israeli private institutions has been some $31 billion or $5,345 per capita, bringing the per capita total of U.S. and German assistance combined to almost $20,000 per Israeli. Since very little public money is spent on the more than 20 percent of Israeli citizens who are Muslim or Christian, the actual per capita benefits received by Israel’s Jewish citizens would be considerably higher. True Cost to U.S. Taxpayers Generous as it is, what Israelis actually got in U.S. aid is considerably less than what it has cost U.S. taxpayers to provide it. The principal difference is that so long as the U.S. runs an annual budget deficit, every dollar of aid the U.S. gives Israel has to be raised through U.S. government borrowing. In an article in the Washington Report for December 1991/January 1992, Frank Collins estimated the costs of this interest, based upon prevailing interest rates for every year since 1949. I have updated this by applying a very conservative 5 percent interest rate for subsequent years, and confined the amount upon which the interest is calculated to grants, not loans or loan guarantees. On this basis the $84.8 billion in grants, loans and commodities Israel has received from the U.S. since 1949 cost the U.S. an additional $49,936,880,000 in interest. There are many other costs of Israel to U.S. taxpayers, such as most or all of the $45.6 billion in U.S. foreign aid to Egypt since Egypt made peace with Israel in 1979 (compared to $4.2 billion in U.S. aid to Egypt for the preceding 26 years). U.S. foreign aid to Egypt, which is pegged at two-thirds of U.S. foreign aid to Israel, averages $2.2 billion per year. There also have been immense political and military costs to the U.S. for its consistent support of Israel during Israel’s half-century of disputes with the Palestinians and all of its Arab neighbors. In addition, there have been the approximately $10 billion in U.S. loan guarantees and perhaps $20 billion in tax-exempt contributions made to Israel by American Jews in the nearly half-century since Israel was created. Even excluding all of these extra costs, America’s $84.8 billion in aid to Israel from fiscal years 1949 through 1998, and the interest the U.S. paid to borrow this money, has cost U.S. taxpayers $134.8 billion, not adjusted for inflation. Or, put another way, the nearly $14,630 every one of 5.8 million Israelis received from the U.S. government by Oct. 31, 1997 has cost American taxpayers $23,240 per Israeli. It would be interesting to know how many of those American taxpayers believe they and their families have received as much from the U.S. Treasury as has everyone who has chosen to become a citizen of Israel. But it’s a question that will never occur to the American public because, so long as America’s mainstream media, Congress and president maintain their pact of silence, few Americans will ever know the true cost of Israel to U.S. taxpayers. Richard H. Curtiss enlisted in the U.S. Army in World War II, and served as a military correspondent in Berlin, Germany after the war. After earning a B.A. in journalism from the University of Southern California and working on newspapers and for the United Press, he served as a career Foreign Service officer with the Department of State and the U.S. Information Agency throughout the world and in Washington D.C. During his U.S. government career he received the U.S. Information Agency’s Superior Honor Award and the Edward R. Murrow award for excellence in Public Diplomacy, U.S.I.A.’s highest professional recognition. Curtiss is currently the Executive Editor of the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs. “When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why they are poor, they call me a communist.” Dom Hélder Pessoa Câmara, Archbishop of Olinda and Recife, also known as the ‘Bishop of Corum’ He wrote "Spiral of Violence" Robin posted on 2012-07-29 9:49:21 ET
Carpet munchers from California don't count. She is a freak. Worthless breather.
And of course the Bible Stole Adam and Eve from the Iraqi's ancestors. King David, from a pot luck of Arabs encyclopediaegypt.com/israel/i1850.htm David's Arab Ancestors ... Adam and Eve, native people of the land we now call Iraq. ... but a composite of these Arabs, now let's see who his descendants are. ... To make a long story short, David got Bathsheba pregnant when her Hittite ... And Ra....;}
So let's stay with YOUR friends, the Top 1% and Israel. VOA News July 29, 2012 Syrian government forces are reported using tanks and artillery against rebels in the major city of Aleppo, a day after the rebels held off a government offensive. Why do your buddies wear burkas in Lebanon, A K?
Because gay black muslims make them.
politicaloutcast.com/2012...ient-pro-israel-campaign/
Choosing and voting for a presidential candidate is like picking which STD you want to suffer from….
I've bozo'd that anti-Christian, anti-social Commie-anarchist of a cartoon character. But I think you have this world-loathing potential James Holmes wannabe pegged.
Yes...and one wonders what McGowan believe his actual role in his Brave New Fascist World would be. Probably the same as it is now: Morgue Keeper. This guy's hobby is Schadenfreude, but on an elevated evil level. His favorite "entertainment" is watching 'Faces of Death', Part I thru CCVII. He eats his Froot Loops out of a hollowed human skull. During Muslim beheadings, he'd love to be standing front row like a groupie at Springsteen concert; During his past life, he was WOO-HOOing as a rabid fan during the Christians vs. Lions slaughters; And at Auschwitz, he was...handing Jews their shovels, ordering them to dig their own grave before shooting them.
Because gay black muslims make them. That's senseless...glad I left when I did...;}
Florida is still here by the way.
#33. To: mcgowanjm (#32)
#34. To: A K A Stone (#33)
(Edited)
No numbers. So you couldn't put up. So shut up.
#35. To: All (#34)
#36. To: All (#35)
#37. To: All (#36)
#38. To: mcgowanjm (#35)
#39. To: mcgowanjm (#34)
All Day long i can do this....
#40. To: A K A Stone (#38)
The numbers. The cost of the total system. It better be less then 5 billion or you are a proved liar.
#41. To: Thunderbird (#39)
(Edited)
....
#42. To: Thunderbird (#39)
Mc-Bull-shit?
#43. To: A K A Stone (#38)
That also means we don't give them money for military. You can't spend a dollar twice. You can sell your food stamps though.
#44. To: mcgowanjm (#40)
#45. To: All (#43)
That also means we don't give them money for military.
#46. To: mcgowanjm (#30)
Personally I don't give a chit
#47. To: mcgowanjm (#45)
That also means we don't give them money for military.
#48. To: A K A Stone (#44)
(Edited)
It is less then 5 billion. We used to give them about 5 billion. I can pull the numbers out. It is you that pulls numbers out of your ass. Along with other things.
#49. To: A K A Stone (#47)
Mcballsucker if we give them 3.x billion for their healthcare system. There isn't any left over for the military.
#50. To: All (#49)
Mcballsucker
#51. To: mcgowanjm (#48)
#52. To: mcgowanjm (#29)
the UK is in the longest double-dip recession since quarterly records began in 1955.....The big picture is that when a recession has gone on this long, we are in a depression”....the UK economy was suffering “the deepest recession and weakest recovery for 100 years”.....the worst economic performance since the 19th century, with only a weak follow-through in prospect afterwards, the news is bleaker still”......... .;}
#53. To: mcgowanjm (#49)
There is ALWAYS $$$ left over for Israel's 4 th Largest military in the world.
#54. To: CZ82 (#46)
Personally I don't give a chit
#55. To: A K A Stone (#51)
So we are going to loan them money. Good investment.
#56. To: All (#55)
#57. To: CZ82 (#52)
Ahhh yes Socialism, isn't it grand!!!
#58. To: mcgowanjm (#56)
the idea of a periodic wiping out of all debts of the people isn't a bad idea.
#59. To: A K A Stone (#53)
open a can of whoop ass on your muslim friends.
#60. To: CZ82 (#59)
Nobody ever said the Muslims were smart, it has something to do with their religion I believe!!!
#61. To: mcgowanjm, *Yukon neo-Progressive Vermin* (#34)
(Edited)
While exporting nothing but
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
#62. To: A K A Stone (#53)
Isreal is about to open a can of whoop ass on your muslim friends.
#63. To: hondo68 (#61)
Dick Cheney has a Palestinian heart?
#64. To: All (#63)
#65. To: mcgowanjm (#64)
Robin posted on 2012-07-29 9:49:21 ET
#66. To: A K A Stone (#58)
Jubilee is an idea out of the Bible. Better keep it hush or the flake website might ban you.
#67. To: A K A Stone (#65)
Carpet munchers from California don't count. She is a freak. Worthless breather
#68. To: mcgowanjm (#67)
Why do your buddies wear burkas in Lebanon, A K?
#69. To: mcgowanjm (#64)
#70. To: A K A Stone, McAnarchist (#44)
Like I said you are not the least bit informed. You are just some loser sitting in moms basement that is jealous of people who have things that work for a living. McLoser
#71. To: CZ82, McCommie (#52)
Socialism is for morons, both the rulers and the ruled.... for neither could exist without the other!! (Birds of a feather flock together)....
#72. To: A K A Stone (#68)
Why do your buddies wear burkas in Lebanon, A K?
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