Funding Both Sides Of Terrorism

OK, let me see if I follow this correctly.

US Citizens pay taxes to our Federal Government. Some of those taxes are then given to other countries/organizations. One of those organizations is the Palestinian Authority. (In fact, according to www.IsraelNationalNews.com , the PA receives cash from two main sources; 1) the US, and 2) European Union member nations.) The PA pays monthly salaries to those imprisoned by Israel. They pay those imprisoned for terrorist activities at a higher rate than they pay regular criminals. The longer the sentence, the larger the paycheck. In essence, the better you are at killing innocents, the more US tax dollars you will receive.

The US military budget for 2010 was $680 Billion dollars, the lion’s share of which is spent in fighting terrorism around the world. This does not count the money spent by the TSA, FBI, CIA, NSA and others. I would hazard a guess that we spend a $Trillion a year or more combatting terrorism each year.

It would appear that we, the tax payers, are funding both sides of this fight!

Which brings me back to the whole concept of foreign aid. I’ve spent 20 minutes surfing the net trying to find a dollar figure on how much we spend on Foreign Aid. The most recent figure I could come up with was 2007 where we seem to have spent nearly $20 Billion. I have to believe that it is not an accident that the government makes it hard to determine just how much money we are giving away each year, and to whom. In times like these where so much needs to be done here at home, we are pissing our financial futures away.

And for what?

A significant portion of that money goes to countries/governments/organizations that don’t like us! (See Palestinian Authority as a case in point!) Countries that are actively trying to destroy us and anyone like us. Countries and religions willing to do ANYTHING to destroy us.

We are borrowing Trillions of dollars from our enemy (China) to either fight terrorism and/or to fund it!

We are 14 Trillion dollars in debt and our wise and wonderful governmental officials just approved raising our debt ceiling so we can borrow more. And why do we need to borrow more? In large part to protect ourselves from crazy bastards in countries we just keep giving money to.

Does any part of this seem to be WRONG to anyone else besides me?

Maybe it’s time to only give money to those who are actually helping us in this fight for survival. Maybe we look at the voting record in the UN and if a country votes against our interests more than 25% of the time, we cut off their financial aid. Period. No Exceptions.

If they are not in our corner at least 75% of the time, let them find a sugar daddy that shares their own particular brand of bat shit crazy and see how well that works out for them.