Westside Steve Posted April 10, 2019 Report Posted April 10, 2019 https://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-election/israels-netanyahu-wins-reelection-with-parliamentary-majority-tally-idUSKCN1RL00K Good news for Israel, the United States and the world. 3 2 1.... WSS
LogicIsForSquares Posted April 10, 2019 Report Posted April 10, 2019 I don’t care who runs Israel. Just get your hand out of our wallet.
calfoxwc Posted April 10, 2019 Report Posted April 10, 2019 Foreign aid to Israel is all military aid - to keep them in existence and defend against another middle east war. I'm great with it.ay a middle east war. I'm proud we help them continue to exist.
LogicIsForSquares Posted April 10, 2019 Report Posted April 10, 2019 Their military would do just fine without our aid. If someone attempted to invade them, we are an ally and we would defend them. Otherwise, I am not real keen on foreign aid when we are clearly running up credit cards to keep up with our spending.
Westside Steve Posted April 10, 2019 Author Report Posted April 10, 2019 Collectively, defense spending by all NATO members in 2017 came to $917 billion. That means the United States' spending represented 67 percent of the total. It is true that the United States spends more than any other NATO member — both in total cost and as a percentage of G.D.P.Jul 9, 2018 WSS
Westside Steve Posted April 10, 2019 Author Report Posted April 10, 2019 https://www.quora.com/How-much-funding-does-Israel-receive-from-the-USA-and-is-it-justified WSS
LogicIsForSquares Posted April 10, 2019 Report Posted April 10, 2019 2 hours ago, Westside Steve said: https://www.quora.com/How-much-funding-does-Israel-receive-from-the-USA-and-is-it-justified WSS Peter McPherson, a former administrator of the Agency for International Development, estimated that every billion dollars of aid to Israel creates 60,000 to 70,000 jobs in the United States. The math on that has to be wrong. Those defense contractors would be making between 14k -16k a year if they were producing that many jobs in the US for every billion sent to Israel. I have my doubts that defense contractors are making less than a cashier at McD's.
calfoxwc Posted April 10, 2019 Report Posted April 10, 2019 well, helping create the jobs isn't necessarily paying their entire salaries completely.... I think.
LogicIsForSquares Posted April 10, 2019 Report Posted April 10, 2019 5 hours ago, calfoxwc said: well, helping create the jobs isn't necessarily paying their entire salaries completely.... I think. True. But the description isn’t clear on that.
Westside Steve Posted April 11, 2019 Author Report Posted April 11, 2019 I think one of the points being missed here is the fact that we pay a huge amount of money for NATO to protect Western Europe at some of Eastern Europe from the Russians. I don't think there's much chance of the ruskies invading England in the near future. But Israel really is a tiny spot of Western Civilization surrounded by enemies. WSS
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