Our "allies" in the ME....

[Timberwolf]

This oughta upset everybody: How they vote in the United Nations:

Below are the actual voting records of various Arabic/Islamic States that are recorded in both the US State Department and United Nations records:

Kuwait votes against the United States 67% of the time
Qatar votes against the United States 67% of the time
Morocco votes against the United States 70% of the time
United Arab Emirates votes against the U. S. 70% of the time.
Jordan votes against the United States 71% of the time.
Tunisia votes against the United States 71% of the time.
Saudi Arabia votes against the United States 73% of the time.
Yemen votes against the United States 74% of the time.
Algeria votes against the United States 74% of the time.
Oman votes against the United States 74% of the time.
Sudan votes against the United States 75% of the time.
Pakistan votes against the United States 75% of the time.
Libya votes against the United States 76% of the time.
Egypt votes against the United States 79% of the time.
Lebanon votes against the United States 80% of the time.
India votes against the United States 81% of the time.
Syria votes against the United States 84% of the time.
Mauritania votes against the United States 87% of the time.

U S Foreign Aid to those that hate us:

Egypt, for example, after voting 79% of the time against the United States, still receives $2 billion annually in US Foreign Aid.

Jordan votes 71% against the United States
And receives $192,814,000 annually in US Foreign Aid.

Pakistan votes 75% against the United States
Receives $6,721,000 annually in US Foreign Aid.

India votes 81% against the United States
Receives $143,699,000 annually.

Perhaps it is time to get out of the UN, discontinue all forms of foreign aid and give the tax savings back to the American workers who are having to skimp and sacrifice to pay the taxes (and gasoline).

Disgusting isn't it?

[Rink]

Yea its disgusting, especially when our TAX monies do NOT belong to the govt, it belongs to 'We the people' and should not be wasted on so-called 'allies' that arent allied at all except to gain American $$$ in whatever way they can from America.

By Hook or crook

[DoctorDoom]

As if more incentive were necessary for the US to pull out of the Useless Notions and tell those sons of bitches to drag their punk asses off of American soil.

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[Maggie_T]

Ain't going to happen. The sheeple still believe in the "power" of the UN. They believe all the UN does is feed dark-skinned babies, and take care of helpless little furry critters. :rolleyes:

[Wolfcounsel]

Foreign aid to those countries breeds nothing but scorn, hate, and ridicule agains America. Somebody tell me some of our public servants who allow this aid aren't taking a cut.

[Beowulf]

So let's see and add it all up!
$2,000,000,000
$192,814,000
$6,721,000
$143,699,000

That's roughly $2,343,234,000 that we can save anually on our domestic budget by cutting off aid to these supposed "Allies....." and thats just a start!

[UnkHiram]

To Hades with the United Nations and to Massachusettes with the Arabs. Cut off all aid to them, recall our ambassadors, drill in AMWAR and let them drown in their oil.

[dPrasse]

India votes 81% against the United States
Receives $143,699,000 annually.

plus our tech support industry ...

[Maggie_T]

To Hades with the United Nations and to Massachusettes with the Arabs. Cut off all aid to them, recall our ambassadors, drill in AMWAR and let them drown in their oil.

My hero! :thumb:

[Rink]

No aid will be stopped, Bush likes to throw Billions here, there and everywhere to please all the people he wants to 'buy'

Not realizing all the time he's trying to 'buy' them they're sneering at him and at America taking our money at the same time they're stabbing us in the back every chance they can get.

Expect more of the same.

With the 'free' money our politicians have to 'play' with this kind of garbage will NEVER stop.

[BarkleUSA]

The only real surprise in the list was that India votes against us 81% of the time. Working in the IT industry, many of our senior management annual goals over the past 5 years have been in hitting outsource numbers, replacing American workers with ones from India based companies. IT at the company where I work is now about 80% outsourced.

I have no idea why they would hate us so much and frankly I find it disturbing.

[dPrasse]

India didn't surprise me at all ... the outsourcing is all about corporate profits ... disgusting ...

[Rink]

hey it isnt just the IT sector that wants to 'outsouce' jobs to India, we now have the trucking industry wanting to IMPORT Indians into the U.S. to do OTR trucking because of a 'shortage of OTR truckers.

Either that or Mexicans, take your pick.

[Etaoin]

Foreign Aid is merely a construct devised by the State Department to con the populace for the supposed purpose of helping friends.

While it is true, some may need assistance, I know of no documentation indicating that this is an effective support of "friends" or that it will create goodwill and thereby purchase friendship.

The much touted "success" of foreign aid was the "Marshall Plan." A close examination of the program shows that it promoted the growth of Socialism and bureaucracies in post WW11 Europe. The one bright star in Europe was Germany since Gerhardt effectively told the striped Pants to stick it, and proceeded to rebuild Germany while most of the countries who accepted the funds with all the strings lagged way behind...France is still the pits!

The dumbest redneck hillbilly knows you cannot buy friendship!

Unfortunately, University PHD.s have not yet learned that lesson!

[Etaoin]

No aid will be stopped, Bush likes to throw Billions here, there and everywhere to please all the people he wants to 'buy'

Not realizing all the time he's trying to 'buy' them they're sneering at him and at America taking our money at the same time they're stabbing us in the back every chance they can get.

Expect more of the same.

With the 'free' money our politicians have to 'play' with this kind of garbage will NEVER stop.

Rink, it will stop. Fiat currency has eventually destroyed the country using it as at some point the currency becomes worthless. No politician or government can resist the lure of "funny Money" once it is accepted as having "value."