Israel: The Staggering Cost to Americans

[expandspanos]

Israel has a population of approximately 7.8 million, or a million fewer than the state of New Jersey. It is among the world's most affluent nations, with a per capita income similar to that of the European Union.[1] Israel's unemployment rate of 5.6% is much better than America's 9.1%,[2] and Israel's net trade, earnings, and payments is ranked 48th in the world while the US sits at a dismal 198th.[3]

Yet Israel receives approximately 10% of America's foreign aid budget every year.[4] The US has, in fact, given more aid to Israel than it has to all the countries of sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean combined—which have a total population of over a billion people.[5] And foreign aid is just one component of the staggering cost of our alliance with Israel.

Given the tremendous costs, it is critical to examine why we lavish so much aid on Israel, and whether it is worth Americans' hard-earned tax dollars. But first, let's take a look at what our alliance with Israel truly costs.
Before the Iraq War in 2003



Direct Foreign Aid

According to the Congressional Research Service , the amount of official US aid to Israel since its founding in 1948 tops $112 billion, and in the past few decades it has been on the order of $3 billion per year.[6](In 2011, for example, this amounted to over $8.2 million every single day.)

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[mrklean]

Israel has a population of approximately 7.8 million, or a million fewer than the state of New Jersey. It is among the world's most affluent nations, with a per capita income similar to that of the European Union.[1] Israel's unemployment rate of 5.6% is much better than America's 9.1%,[2] and Israel's net trade, earnings, and payments is ranked 48th in the world while the US sits at a dismal 198th.[3]

Yet Israel receives approximately 10% of America's foreign aid budget every year.[4] The US has, in fact, given more aid to Israel than it has to all the countries of sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean combined—which have a total population of over a billion people.[5] And foreign aid is just one component of the staggering cost of our alliance with Israel.

Given the tremendous costs, it is critical to examine why we lavish so much aid on Israel, and whether it is worth Americans' hard-earned tax dollars. But first, let's take a look at what our alliance with Israel truly costs.
Before the Iraq War in 2003



Direct Foreign Aid

Talk about White Guilt. But really, our country knew what Hitler was doing to the Jews as far back as 1938 and the U.S did nothing!!!!!
According to the Congressional Research Service , the amount of official US aid to Israel since its founding in 1948 tops $112 billion, and in the past few decades it has been on the order of $3 billion per year.[6](In 2011, for example, this amounted to over $8.2 million every single day.)

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[YoUDeeMan]

Talk about White Guilt. But really, our country knew what Hitler was doing to the Jews as far back as 1938 and the U.S did nothing!!!!!

I missed the waves of Africans jumping in to stop the German Jew killing machine. I think it is the result of their collective Black Guilt for selling their brothers into slavery. Maybe that is why blacks don't like themselves and kill themselves in the cities. Surround yourself with a bunch of losers who pump out babies and don't give a damn about their upbringing, and you can see why their is so much hatred among them.

[bluehenbillk]

If I was President I'd cut that # by about 75%, same with every other country we give aid to. Look out for #1.

[mrklean]

Talk about White Guilt. But really, our country knew what Hitler was doing to the Jews as far back as 1938 and the U.S did nothing!!!!!

I missed the waves of Africans jumping in to stop the German Jew killing machine. I think it is the result of their collective Black Guilt for selling their brothers into slavery. Maybe that is why blacks don't like themselves and kill themselves in the cities. Surround yourself with a bunch of losers who pump out babies and don't give a damn about their upbringing, and you can see why their is so much hatred among them.

Just like the crazy azz WEAK white men who are loosers, but end up becomming mass FREAKS i.e Hitler Stalin. Between these two white men over 30 million people dead. What black people have done is a drop in the bucket compaired to these TWO MEN.................lol 30 Million DEAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I guess its that Anglo-Saxon Blood

[kalm]

I missed the waves of Africans jumping in to stop the German Jew killing machine. I think it is the result of their collective Black Guilt for selling their brothers into slavery. Maybe that is why blacks don't like themselves and kill themselves in the cities. Surround yourself with a bunch of losers who pump out babies and don't give a damn about their upbringing, and you can see why their is so much hatred among them.

Just like the crazy azz WEAK white men who are loosers, but end up becomming mass FREAKS i.e Hitler Stalin. Between these two white men over 30 million people dead. What black people have done is a drop in the bucket compaired to these TWO MEN.................lol 30 Million DEAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I guess its that Anglo-Saxon Blood

Ummmm, pretty sure Hitler Stalin was of germanic/russian ancestry.

[Ibanez]

Just like the crazy azz WEAK white men who are loosers, but end up becomming mass FREAKS i.e Hitler Stalin. Between these two white men over 30 million people dead. What black people have done is a drop in the bucket compaired to these TWO MEN.................lol 30 Million DEAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I guess its that Anglo-Saxon Blood

Ummmm, pretty sure Hitler Stalin was of germanic/russian ancestry.

Technically, he's correct. Angles and the Saxons were germanic tribes, hired by the Brits to repeal Danish and Irish invaders after the Romans left. The Angles and Saxons then turned on the Brits and dominated the country. This was during the 5th cenutry. THings changed in 1066 with the Norman conquest of England.

[Ibanez]

There was an article last week how Israel just hit the 6M population count. Your article's count is wrong and therefore, unreliable.

[kalm]

Ummmm, pretty sure Hitler Stalin was of germanic/russian ancestry.

Technically, he's correct. Angles and the Saxons were germanic tribes, hired by the Brits to repeal Danish and Irish invaders after the Romans left. The Angles and Saxons then turned on the Brits and dominated the country. This was during the 5th cenutry. THings changed in 1066 with the Norman conquest of England.

Good catch but I'm pretty sure Hitler Stalin was not from Britain.

[CAA Flagship]

THings changed in 1066 with the Norman conquest of England.

Schwarzkopf was an excellent military leader.

[Ibanez]

Technically, he's correct. Angles and the Saxons were germanic tribes, hired by the Brits to repeal Danish and Irish invaders after the Romans left. The Angles and Saxons then turned on the Brits and dominated the country. This was during the 5th cenutry. THings changed in 1066 with the Norman conquest of England.

Good catch but I'm pretty sure Hitler Stalin was not from Britain.

No. But Hitler has the Germanic ancestry.

[Ibanez]

THings changed in 1066 with the Norman conquest of England.

Schwarzkopf was an excellent military leader.

There's a reason he was called "Stormin Norman".

[CID1990]

I missed the waves of Africans jumping in to stop the German Jew killing machine. I think it is the result of their collective Black Guilt for selling their brothers into slavery. Maybe that is why blacks don't like themselves and kill themselves in the cities. Surround yourself with a bunch of losers who pump out babies and don't give a damn about their upbringing, and you can see why their is so much hatred among them.

What black people have done is a drop in the bucket compaired to these TWO MEN.................lol 30 Million DEAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I guess its that Anglo-Saxon Blood

No, it's because blacks lack the brains and creativity.



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[mrklean]

What black people have done is a drop in the bucket compaired to these TWO MEN.................lol 30 Million DEAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I guess its that Anglo-Saxon Blood

No, it's because blacks lack the brains and creativity.





Sent from the center of the universe.

YEAH RIGHT!!!!, Typical REDNECK EL CID Education:thumb:

[YoUDeeMan]

What black people have done is a drop in the bucket compaired to these TWO MEN.................lol 30 Million DEAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I guess its that Anglo-Saxon Blood

No, it's because blacks lack the brains and creativity.



Sent from the center of the universe.

Killing off 30 million people is a project requiring determination, focus, and a willingness to show up and do the required work each day. Black people would see it as a job and would look for some way to get out of it by applying for disability or getting fired. Much easier to sell crack, run and hide from the law, and shoot a couple other lazy, unorganized wannabe gangstas.

[expandspanos]

There was an article last week how Israel just hit the 6M population count. Your article's count is wrong and therefore, unreliable.

Please quote the article..

First off- that's a straw-man argument attempting to nit-pick the facts and discredit the entire argument through minutia.

You're arguing a 1.7 million person difference in population of the nation and you're saying the population of Isreal is in fact LOWER than what the article I posted claimed it is (please provide a link to your source)-

So, if that is the case- the American people are paying an even HIGHER ransom to our non-American Israeli "allies" per person- the American taxpayer is bending over even further per person... In that essence your argument becomes even weaker..

The hard-working American taxpayers should owe NOTHING to Israel. They have a lower unemployment rate, among other statistics (seeing as how we're "broke" we shouldn't be supporting any other foreign nation anyway), please feel free to elaborate on how us Americans should be footing Isreal's bill.

[Ibanez]

There was an article last week how Israel just hit the 6M population count. Your article's count is wrong and therefore, unreliable.

Please quote the article..

First off- that's a straw-man argument attempting to nit-pick the facts and discredit the entire argument through minutia.

You're arguing a 1.7 million person difference in population of the nation and you're saying the population of Isreal is in fact LOWER than what the article I posted claimed it is (please provide a link to your source)-

So, if that is the case- the American people are paying an even HIGHER ransom to our non-American Israeli "allies" per person- the American taxpayer is bending over even further per person... In that essence your argument becomes even weaker..

The hard-working American taxpayers should owe NOTHING to Israel. They have a lower unemployment rate, among other statistics (seeing as how we're "broke" we shouldn't be supporting any other foreign nation anyway), please feel free to elaborate on how us Americans should be footing Isreal's bill.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... llion.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

http://www.jerusalemreports.com/?p=957" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/01 ... 94636.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breakin ... 013/03/28/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


Nit picking? If an article can't get a simple FACT right, can we really trust the other "facts"?

[Ibanez]

Israel has a population of approximately 7.8 million, or a million fewer than the state of New Jersey. It is among the world's most affluent nations, with a per capita income similar to that of the European Union.[1] Israel's unemployment rate of 5.6% is much better than America's 9.1%,[2] and Israel's net trade, earnings, and payments is ranked 48th in the world while the US sits at a dismal 198th.[3]

Yet Israel receives approximately 10% of America's foreign aid budget every year.[4] The US has, in fact, given more aid to Israel than it has to all the countries of sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean combined—which have a total population of over a billion people.[5] And foreign aid is just one component of the staggering cost of our alliance with Israel.

Given the tremendous costs, it is critical to examine why we lavish so much aid on Israel, and whether it is worth Americans' hard-earned tax dollars. But first, let's take a look at what our alliance with Israel truly costs.
Before the Iraq War in 2003



Direct Foreign Aid

According to the Congressional Research Service , the amount of official US aid to Israel since its founding in 1948 tops $112 billion, and in the past few decades it has been on the order of $3 billion per year.[6](In 2011, for example, this amounted to over $8.2 million every single day.)

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To be a real stickler:

1) Yes, 5% unemployment is better than 9%. However, our populations aren't equal. 6 Million people compared to 313 million? C'mon.

2) Total foreign for 2011 was $49.5B. $3,026B was given to Israel. That is 6.11%, not 10%. Since you're upset over the figure, you overestimated the economic and military aid to Israel by $1,924B. Of course, these facts are based off of 2011 Census data and are approximate.

3) New Jerseys population is. 8,864,590. That's more than a million more than 6,000,000.

[93henfan]

God this thread is dysfunctional.

Nice work, men.

Regarding Israel, those wandering Jews have been all over the globe for millenia, squirrelling away money wherever they can find it. The US is a big slot machine that's paying off nicely for them and they're going to keep playing it until it's out of coin. It's self-preservation, plain and simple. We set up a system where you can buy influence, and by golly they've bought it. Check the lobbying stats.

[HI54UNI]

[93henfan]

I'd stick my peter in that cotton tail.

[CID1990]

A little laggy with the pussy pics, boys. This thread almost turned into a discussion.


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[AZGrizFan]

I'd stick my peter in that cotton tail.

She's put together well, isn't she?

[YoUDeeMan]

I'd stick my peter in that cotton tail.

She's put together well, isn't she?

Indeed!

[HI54UNI]