US approves $7.4bn sale of more weapons to Israel used to ravage Gaza
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Thanks for ignoring the entirety of my response to return to the raw dumb numbers without the context. You remind me of people who post crime statistics of Black Americans to try to prove a racist point. Don't bother replying if you're just going to ignore the counterargument.
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If you think you can argue with numbers that's more on you than me.
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This is both disingenuous and extremely reductive.
The majority of foreign aid in the past few years has gone to Ukraine. It also goes into disease prevention, such as the Ebola outbreak, and fighting aids and other diseases.
Are there issues? Absolutely. But those issues are more about the US not caring that it destroys existing infrastructure (for instance Haitis ability to grow food) while replacing it with dependence on the US.
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America gives Israeli free money. Israel uses that money to "buy" whichever American weapons they want. Example:
This is a good overview of cost:
From Iron Dome to F-15s: US provides 70% of Israel’s war costs
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My statement was regarding the current deal, both links are talking about other arm deals.
The reason US citizens don't have health care or free higher education is a political choice.
You spend more dollars per capita than any other nation, but the system is inefficient. Similar shit goes in higher education.
In sane countries students don't need to buy books, they loan them from the library. They don't have mega stadiums in universities. Admin are nor racking in piles of gold and academic staff pay is shit. So education doesn't costs so much.The USA doesn't give Israel free money, they give military aid with strings attached.
Israel 'battle test' American products, with no danger to American soldiers. More so, the US get the fruits of Israeli R&D, such as Iron Dome, that was developed in Israel and is now manufactured in the US, giving the US army access to it.
Israel also hosts American bases in the region.As for your second link, who ever wrote it lacks understanding in global trade. The US didn't deploy aircraft carriers to defend Israel.
They deployed them to defend global trade routes from an Iranian proxy.
The Houthi "blockade" didn't cause much harm to Israel's economy, it harmed other nations much more.
This is why a coalition of different countries took part in the attack on the Houthis.[0] "houthi blockade economic damage" in your favorite search engine and pick a source you trust.
[1] https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/china-presses-iran-rein-houthi-attacks-red-sea-sources-say-2024-01-26/ -
I gwt your sarcasm, but what should I be doing as a poor US citizen?
-Writing letters? (Unlikely to persuade people because opinions are divided on humanitarian versus hard-core Christian theologian views. I would need to remotely deprogram elected officials for this to work.)
-Holding signs to protest? (Unlikely to persuade for the same reasons.)
-Sending lengthy theological arguments to right-wing types? (I could try it. It would be strange coming from an atheist vut I could try?)
-Donations? (I looked at some organizations helping Gaza and many of their leaders make substantially more than me per year and I'm dealing with financial hardship. It's hard for me to donate to an organization with leaders who have high salaries while I struggle with bills, but maybe that's a bad excuse. Maybe some leaders with high salaries donate to their own organization, but if so it wasn't listed.)
-Direct donations? (I should probably do this, and I'm not sure how to do this.)
Please, tell me the appropriate response for a poor person, even if it's anything other than nothing. I just feel like nothing I do will be effective.
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I think the poster's post was not about this specific instance, but about the bigger picture. If someone gives you 20 dollars in food aid and then you buy 20 dollars in oranges from them, is it a sale or is it really more of a gift just masquerading as a sale? I think that was the poster's point, not whether the particular article refers to something actually gifted versus paid for.
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Even if this is technically true, if there is a certain amount of aid and a certain percent goes to US deals that are exported, and then the aid gets bigger with the expectation of larger more expensive export deals, I'm just not sure if this is meaningfully true rather than technically true. I am not downvoting you, BTW, I appreciate the correction, but just belive you are are confusing a semantic difference with actual ignorance.
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Are you saying voters shouldn't be shocked? I think many Christians are indifferent at best and complicit at worst. If some Muslims hadn't sat out the election or voted Stein, would it have made a difference? It seemed like Trump was voted in by a landslide because average middle class people hate inflation and Biden was quasi-gaslighting people with CPI inflation statistic that include decreased smart TV prices and RAM costs as well as increased rent and food at similar weights that doesn't reflect what hurts consumers most while failing to reassure the public that yes, it was a problem, and that he was trying to do something. For about 2 years there was a major problem with nothing done by Biden. He was going to get voted out and Kamela Harris, who was in power and could have galvanized some sort of policy instead of doing nothing for 2 years was going to get voted out. They failed the public in a very important way and pretended the inflation problem wasn't bad. It upset people, even Democrats and liberals, and lost them almost all of the moderate vote.
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The economy sucks globally. The US president can't fix the inflation. People are suffering economically everywhere.
We had a pandemic, world order is breaking down with Iran China and Russia leading the charge and on top of that climate change is accelerating.
It's going to get much, much worse very quickly, and picking Trump will make things worse. The president can't reduce the inflation, but he can fuck things even farther.
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What point is irrelevant? I asked you which politician took the most money from Israel. And you responded with nonsense and don't want to answer the question because you know it destroys you. Sorry I don't spend enough time online for you.
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Right, but Biden failed in communicating with people.
He said it wasn't that bad. That wasn't reassuring.
Even of soil problems and climate change are leading to crop reductions, and if that's the real issue, along with increasing the money supply, telling Americans "eh, it's not that bad everything looks fine based on the CPI" was an epic fail for a President.
His strategy may have been the best option, although that's doubtful, as I can think of various policies that would have reassured people without altering the money supply and am familiar with classical economic theories, but he failed to make people feel like he saw their pain. It was terrible politics from Biden, who is usually great at this stuff, and he failed at this because he was never in charge before and could rely on his extreme likability.
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The US does not need their 2.000 pound bombs battle tested on refugee camps. Especially when Ukraine could have used those weapons.
The Houthi blockade was directly related to Israel. The Houthis started blocking ships of every country complicit in the genocide.
Say do you think Israel is committing genocide by the way?
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I hope you can develop more options in the future, but for this election, there were only two.
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Indeed it doesn't need 2,000 pound bombs tested. This is why Democrats stopped the shipment.
Ukraine doesn't have the air force required to use them. Air force is not just airplanes, it's also pilots, technical support team and air bases.This is a story the houthi likes to sell. They also attacked unrelated ships [0].
Israel was not commiting a genocide under Democrats. Trumps will lead to one.
[0] - https://news.usni.org/2024/03/24/chinese-tanker-hit-with-houthi-missile-in-the-red-sea
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And that, is irrelevant. If you have a better point make it im not gonna make your arguments for you.
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Already have. You won't answer the question honestly, but anyone remotely informed already knows the answer. You are embarrassing yourself.
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I see as expected a genocide denier.
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While "better" still betting not going to pay for anything useful.
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You didn't make a point you asked me a question. The list I've given shows who'se recieved the most from Israeli interests. Whether or not they're actually from Israel is irrelevant.
