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The US Spends $35 Billion In Global Economic Aid (But Where Does All This Money Really Go?)
The United States provided approximately $35 billion in economic aid to over 140 countries in fiscal year 2014.
In the HowMuch.net-created map below, the relative size of each country is proportionate to the aid received from the United States and the color of each country indicates GDP per capita.
Clearly, not all aid is distributed equally. The question is: Who received the largest slice of the pie from the U.S.? From the map above, the answer is clear: Israel.
Of the $35 billion of total economic aid distributed, almost a quarter of funds went to five countries. Below are the top 5 recipients of economic aid in 2014.
- Israel: $3.1 billion
- Egypt: $1.5 billion
- Afghanistan: $1.1 billion
- Jordan: $1.0 billion
- Pakistan: $933 million
At first glance, one may wonder why Israel would receive roughly 9% of U.S. economic aid. It is important to note that foreign aid has a variety of uses depending on the current political, economic, and social climate.
According to the U.S. State Government 2013-2015 Foreign Assistance report, all $3.1 billion of Israel’s funding was used for military financing. In Egypt, $1.3 billion of $1.5 billion received was used for military-related activities as well. On the other hand, the majority of funds received by Afghanistan, Jordan, and Pakistan were used for economic development purposes.
Of the $35 billion referenced in the report, $8.4 billion (24%) was used towards global health programs, $5.9 billion (17%) was used for foreign military financing, $4.6 billion (13%) was used for economic support, and $2.5 billion (7%) was used for development assistance.
Below is a breakout of aid received by geographic region in fiscal year 2014.
- Africa: 20%
- East Asia and Pacific: 2%
- Europe and Eurasia: 2%
- Near East: 20%
- South and Central Asia: 7%
- Western Hemisphere: 4%
- General Aid: 45%
With 142 countries receiving aid out of the 188 countries listed with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in 2014, approximately 76% of the world received some form of economic assistance from the U.S., the majority located within Africa and the Near East.
Depending on future geopolitical events, this allocation is subject to change; however, according to the federal government’s 2015 estimates, the approximate $33 billion requests in aid follow a similar geographic allocation. Nonetheless, in the past three years, the economic support from the U.S. will have impacted a large majority of the world’s population, totaling $103 billion in economic support across various programs.
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Your tax dollars at work.
It goes to ISIS.
Paraphrasing Ron Paul: Stealing money from poor people in rich countries, and giving it to rich dictators in poor countries.
Wonder what influence our $0.1 million buys us from Malta?
$30k per capita is a nice vig, wonder how they scored that?
#ChosenOnesFTW
pods
Well, at least Peru gets a little bit...
Just have to find a way to make bearings a national security issue. :D
pods
And they still don't behave.
Isn't most of our "aid" to Egypt orders for tanks and helicopters that they don't need to stimulate our MIC?
why do we give the jews anything? lets take a year off all 35 billion world wide and see how it goes.
Sum Ting Wong
Wikipedia disagrees with those numbers for 2014
Total world aid was $105B not $35B
Mexico got $917M not $207M
Pakistan got $3.5B not $933M
Kenya got $2.4B not $260M
Etc. etc.
List of countries by foreign aid received
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_foreign_aid_received
Accurate or not, why do you worry yourself with such paltry sums? To quote one of my dear friends:
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.Eleanor Roosevelt? One of your dear Friends?
I understand why it's OK with you when an article providing false and/or misleading information is published.... You must be a life long Democrat?
Bra ha ha ha
I think it's wrong that only one company makes the game Monopoly.
Steven Wright
Um.. there ain’t no money there.
It is all “credit”.
("Full faith and blah, blah, blah.....")
$155 mln to Syria? Are they kidding? To Assad or whom? Unlikely. So rather to Syrian "moderate" terrorists.... Interesting that they already count as the new "Syria" in the eyes of the empire...
Ha ! $3Billion is chump change . We,re still living high on the hog on that $2Trillion that went missing from your "Defence" budget. Thanks brother Dov ! hahahahahahahahahaha
Note that Israel is not listed on that page.
Note it does not say that the money is from the USA.
Hmmmmm.
Yes, but these are amounts of total international aid provided by ODA (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Official_development_assistance), ie 28 member countries. The subject at hand is solo US foreign aid.
imo this doesn't really come close to capturing the expense for the u.s. of israel or even saudi arabia.
we fight wars for these people, or think we do. both the first and second iraq wars were fought for both countries to remove saddam seen as an existential risk by both, supposedly. these wars cost trillions and thousands of u.s. lives.
israel is a hideous warmonger and oppressor but at least understands public relations a bit. ksa not so much. check these out:
http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/10/9/saudi-employer-accused-o...
http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/10/29/jailed-saudi-blogger-ra...
ten years in prison and a thousand lashes for a political blog. they thought they were being merciful when they decided to give him fifty lashes twenty times.
charmers.
Israel is making nice to China. A Chinese investment banker has become the head of a new Israeli-Chinese technical School in Israel. They know that US time is coming to an end and are looking for a new host.
http://atimes.com/2015/10/chinese-investment-banker-to-lead-joint-chines...
Empire is moving East, along with the parasites. Hopefully, the US will perform some pest control as it happens.
You've blown your cover 38B. ;-)
Expensive hand bag?
97% of Money now exists as debt so loaning out more of it to charities won't do anything except create an even bigger problem.
Ron Paul is still my president.
"It goes to ISIS."
It goes to ISIS' banker. Saul Rosenbergergoldstein
There, fixed it.
In fact, by law, 75% flows directly back to the US military complex.
Israel has to buy from the corporations behind the lobby.
The rest of the funds are used for low-cost Israeli military R&D (as compared to onshore R&D), leveraged by Israeli budgets, and used for experimenting new tech on the back of Israeli soldiers.
Another sheeple state? Na.
It all goes to the MIC. I bet not one dollar leaves this country. It goes to buy/build bombs, planes, tanks that are made here and then we ship that stuff to dictators around the world to kill and suppress innocent people. And we wonder why the world hates us?
I heard it said that Egypt has enough M1A1 battle tanks to defend against an interplanetary alien invasion.
Bring on the collapse of the U.S.!!! And soon!
Imagine what that $103 billion would do for veterans hospitals, border patrol and the Wall/fence between our borders,
The fact that we're borrowing it from China to give away is asinine.
Its Chinas loss. All the US contributed was being in debt with no intention of paying.
Leseee-ALL that is debt monies getting kicked out to foreigners.
There's more than a few states could use a little bit of that
Fuck where it goes, where does it come from ???
Its BORROWED. We are borrowing the money we are giving away. Unbelievable...
I'm sure some Marxist Utopian....like say....the pope, can come up with some logic to explain this.
There is no explanation ,its pure fucking insanity...
We know it. But does the US Franchise of the FSA know it?
In a fractional reserve system it it didn't exist until it was borrowed so who cares if we give it away? Oh, we have to pay it back? I didn't think about that.
it will not be paid back. mathematically impossible. but that matters not. it is the control they have...
until they don't, well, what will go wrong? and when? the multi-trillion dolla question we get to pay interest on...
The bankers game is not just control, but ownership of the nation's assets such as roads, bridges, airports,..etc. All given to bankers who create money out of nothing to lend out at interest with the collateral being the national assets (which they will seize) and the wage labor (which they will tax) of all of the citizens.
And the amount of money given to Egypt and Jordan really is just going to to pacify Israel's neighbors, so the real amount of foreign aid Israel gets is more like 5 billion per year, or about $1K per year per Jew in Israel. The cost of the Iraq/Afghan war is 6 trillion, or about 500 billion per year, and these wars were desgined to increase Israel's hegemonic control over the ME, so the real figure is more like $100K per year per Jew in Israel. And this is a recurring expense.
The majority of Americans are such stupid dumb animals. They don't care to wise up, or are too afraid
they are trained to act like the people that are in commercials and be scared and wary of the people they see in movies and the news
The coming inflection point will not be of "borrowed," but "printed."
And who is the fucking retarded asshole who down voted that statement???
And it's not only the $35 billion referenced in the story that was borrowed in 2014. That's just the share of borrowing that the US on-lent directly, and doesn't include contingent liabilities where the US taxpayer assumes payment risk for the borrower (e.g. the USD 1B loan guarantee that Jack Lew signed you up for in May 2014... several Rinse, Repeat episodes and billions of off balance sheet Ukrainian debt ago).
Something has always told me this debt is going to land squarely on our shoulders.
Odious debt law will be ruled null and void...
I'm sure Obama and Boehner/Ryan/McConnell reckon future taxpayers are good for it. So no probs.
Calling it "aid" is a bit of a stretch. Bribes, payoffs, destabilization funds and hush money would be more accurate. You think nobody's getting anything in return for this money?
No, this is aid. The bribes, payoffs, destabilization funds and hush money are not recorded anywhere that we might find them.
Do you see Ukraine anywhere?
$4 billion spent, but its not on that map...
in all fairness, we stole their gold. that should count for something.
I've gotta wonder how much of that went up Hunter Biden's nose.
Absolutely Criminal. Make sure you wake up extra early tomorrow and work late. Netanyahoooo and Kissinger are counting on you.
that's nothing... US charitable giving was $358 billion in 2014... $258 billion of that was _individual contributions_
let those numbers sink in for a moment...
That is quite a statistic. And that's just for one year.
US Gov't federal budget for FY 2016 is what roughly $4,000,000,000,000? The Defense appropriation is roughly $600,000,000,000. Food Stamps roughly $100,000,000,000.
proposed outlays for 2016 are:
- $631B for defense (this is where everyone is supposed to go omg wtf but wait, we're barely getting started...)
- $563B non-defense (making it $1194B for appropriated spending)
- $938B for social security (*shazam*)
- $585B for medicare
- $344B for medicaid
- $680B for other mandatory programs (that's right, mandatory "other" is larger than defense, making it $2548B for mandatory spending)
- $283B for net interest (which comes out to ~2.5% of projected 2016 US GDP)
a billion here, a billion there, pretty soon you're talking big money...
The BLUE team are the good guys right?
WTF! Why doesn't the MIC find something more productive to do with their time, GD idots should just use all those guns to shoot themselves in the head, then we can more or less peacefully get on with our lives and have more money to do practical things like fix the roads, etc. UGH!
Fucking Israel? Israeli GDP per capita is $36,000 (top 25 globally). All of its "enemies" from the Six Day War are all that list so they're never going to attack Israel now. So the US gives $3.1 billion to fight the Palestinian rock throwers and model rocket launchers? For shits and giggles, the Palestinian GDP per capita in the West Bank is just under $2k (roughly 140 globally) and just under $900 (roughly 158 globally) in the Gaza strip. Maybe Israel wouldn't need as much aid if the US, say, used the money to, I don't know, actually offer the Palestinians a better life and future. Maybe Hamas, as the sole provider of community services in the Gaza Strip, wouldn't have had decades to indoctrinate its children.
In the end, the money flows to the right people (Northrup, Lockheed, Boeing, etc.) so who really gives a shit about the 4 million people in the Palestinian territories?
So where are the Sunnis when it comes time to make life better for those persons living in Gaza? Meaning, of course, other than the payments to families of suicide bombers.
It's a fair point. The bloaded Gulf Arabs could have the Palestinians living a normal life if they gave up spme f their gold-plated cars.
Fucking Israel? Israeli GDP per capita is $36,000 (top 25 globally). All of its "enemies" from the Six Day War are all that list so they're never going to attack Israel now. So the US gives $3.1 billion to fight the Palestinian rock throwers and model rocket launchers? For shits and giggles, the Palestinian GDP per capita in the West Bank is just under $2k (roughly 140 globally) and just under $900 (roughly 158 globally) in the Gaza strip. Maybe Israel wouldn't need as much aid if the US, say, used the money to, I don't know, actually offer the Palestinians a better life and future. Maybe Hamas, as the sole provider of community services in the Gaza Strip, wouldn't have had decades to indoctrinate its children.
In the end, the money flows to the right people (Northrup, Lockheed, Boeing, etc.) so who really gives a shit about the 4 million people in the Palestinian territories?
Material support for terrorism.
John Perkins,...line one.
It used to be called Foreign Aid. Detroit could use about a billion. OH, wait Detroit is here in the USA.
Since 1949 the U.S. has given Israel a total of $83.205 billion. The interest costs to U.S. tax payers on behalf of Israel are $49.937 billion, thus making the total amount of aid given to Israel since 1949 $133.132 billion. This may mean that U.S. government has given more federal aid to the average Israeli citizen in a given year than it has given to the average American citizen.
The damage from our war on terror we've fought for Israel with dual citizen morons as architects of those wars since 2001:
2001–present 6,717 dead 51,000 wounded
Total cost: ~6 trillion dollar$ (borrowed with interest)
Now you understand the only special relationship the US has?
Your figures regarding aid are accurate, approx. 120 billion and it's interesting that one years operational costs in Operation Iraqi Freedom was over 100 billion and the same in Afghanistan for a couple of years during Obama's 'surge.' Amazing to me that one year's costs of Iraq/Afghanistan was as much as the entire history of aid to Israel. Downright underwhelming since 1948. Nevermind much of the 'aid' must be spent buying American products...in the defense industry, which of course equates to jobs.
Isn't Israel the reason we are spending that money to fight those senseless wars over there also, not to mention the cost in young lives?
Ah, the dancing mossad........no doubt still dancing.......
"Your figures regarding aid are accurate... Downright underwhelming since 1948."
Get your grubby little hands out of my pockets, Chaim.
The figures aren't accurate. The true costs of this parasitical relationship are staggering and have amounted to trillions. See:
http://www.ifamericansknew.org/stat/cost.html
But this money is only part of the story. For one thing, Israel gets all of its aid money at the start of each year, rather than in quarterly installments like other countries.[7] This is significant: It means that Israel can start earning interest on the money right away – interest paid by the US since Israel invests these funds in US Treasury notes. In addition, because the US government operates at a deficit, it must borrow money in order to give it to Israel and then pay interest on it all year. Together these cost US taxpayers more than $100 million every year.
Israel is also the only recipient of US military aid that is allowed to use a significant portion annually to purchase products made by Israeli companies instead of US companies. (The costs to Americans caused by this unique perk are discussed below.)
In addition, the US gives roughly $1.6 billion per year to Egypt and Jordan in aid packages arranged largely in exchange for peace treaties with Israel. The treaties don’t include justice for Palestinians, and are therefore deeply unpopular with the local populations.[8]
On top of this, the US gives more than $400 million to the Palestinian Authority each year,[9] much of it used to rebuild infrastructure destroyed by Israel and to bolster an economy stifled by the Israeli occupation.[10] This would be unnecessary if Israel were to end the occupation and allow the Palestinians to build a functioning and self-sustaining economy.
Yet, there’s still much more to the story, because parts of US aid to Israel are buried in the budgets of various US agencies, mostly the Department of Defense. For example, since at least 2006, the American Defense budget has included between $202 and $504 million per year for missile defense programs in Israel.[11]
In all, direct US disbursements to Israel are higher than to any other country, even though Israelis only make up 0.1% of the world’s population. On average, Israelis receive 7,000 times more US foreign aid per capita than other people throughout the world, despite the fact that Israel is one of the world’s more affluent nations.[12] And that number rises significantly when one considers disbursements to Egypt, Jordan, and the Palestinian Authority and Defense spending on behalf of Israel.
Additional Ad hoc support for Israel
Dr. Thomas Stauffer, a Harvard economist and Middle East studies professor who twice served in the Executive Office of the President, wrote a comprehensive report about all components of the relationship with Israel’s cost to American taxpayers for the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs in 2003. He wrote:
Israel has often used its privileged access to US military technology against both the US government and US corporate interests. According to the Associated Press in 2002,
The AP article quoted a vice president at the Aerospace Industries Association of America, who bluntly said, "We give them money to build stuff for themselves and the U.S. taxpayer gets nothing in return."[15]
Meanwhile, according to the Christian Science Monitor , Israel has also "blocked some major US arms sales, such as F-15 fighter aircraft to Saudi Arabia in the mid-1980s. That cost $40 billion over 10 years."[16]
Even worse, Israeli weapons "buttress the arsenals of nations such as China that the United States considers strategic competitors, alarming US military planners," the Associated Press article went on to report. "[In 2001] US surveillance planes flying along China's coast were threatened by Chinese fighter jets armed with Israeli missiles... Had Chinese fighter pilots been given the order to fire, they could have brought down the US planes with Israeli Python III missiles... US defense chiefs say Israel sold China the missiles without informing the United States."[17]
Lost jobs, trade, and standing
One of the most devastating indirect costs of the US alliance with Israel was the Arab oil boycott of 1973. The Arab states imposed the boycott in protest of U.S. support of Israel during the 1973 war, in which Arab countries attempted to reclaim lands Israel had invaded and occupied in 1967.
"Washington's intervention triggered the Arab oil embargo which cost the U.S. doubly: first, due to the oil shortfall, the US lost about $300 billion to $600 billion in GDP; and, second, the US was saddled with another $450 billion in higher oil import costs," wrote Stauffer in the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs.[18]
Then there's the cost in lost jobs. "US policy and trade sanctions reduce US exports to the Middle East about $5 billion a year, costing 70,000 or so American jobs," Stauffer estimates. "Not requiring Israel to use its US aid to buy American goods, as is usual in foreign aid, costs another 125,000 jobs."[19]
But perhaps the most damaging cost to the US has been its loss of standing in the Arab and Muslim worlds, where US largesse towards Israel as it commits human rights violations[20] provokes deep resentment. "To many of the world's Muslims, it places the US taxpayer on the Israeli side of its conflicts with Arabs," observed the Associated Press article.[21]
According to Harvard professor Stephen Walt, "The 9/11 Commission reported that 9/11 plotter Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's 'animus toward the United States stemmed not from his experiences there as a student, but rather from his violent disagreement with US foreign policy favoring Israel.' Other anti-American terrorists—such as Ramzi Yousef, who led the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center—have offered similar explanations for their anger toward the United States."[22]
There are many more potential categories of costs that are even more difficult to quantify. All in all, Stauffer estimates that Israel cost the US about $1.6 trillion between 1973 and 2003 alone—more than twice the cost of the Vietnam war.[23]
Costs since Stauffer's study in 2003Israel's cost to American taxpayers has remained high since Stauffer's 2003 study. The US currently gives Israel an average of $3 billion a year in military aid, under an agreement signed by the Bush administration to transfer $30 billion to Israel over ten years, starting in 2009.[24]
All of the other extras and costs remain and in some cases have increased since 2003. For example, "Despite a tough economic climate and expected US budget cuts—including drastic cuts to the US military budget—US lawmakers will provide $236 million in fiscal 2012 for the Israeli development of three missile defense programs," reported Israeli newspaper Haaretz.[25]
In addition, the US government "has provided $205 million to support the Iron Dome, manufactured by Israel's state-owned Raphael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd. The system uses small radar-guided missiles to blow up in midair Katyusha-style rockets with ranges of 3 miles to 45 miles, as well as mortar bombs… Legislation moving through the Republican-controlled US House of Representatives would give Israel additional $680 million for the Iron Dome system through 2015."[26]
And if, as many experts believe, the US would not have invaded Iraq without intense and sustained pressure from Washington insiders who advocate actively on behalf of Israel,[27] this adds yet another dimension of staggering cost to the equation: "hundreds of billions of dollars, 4,000-plus U.S. and allied fatalities, untold tens of thousands of Iraqi deaths, and many thousands of other US, allied, and Iraqi casualties," according to retired US foreign service officer Shirl McArthur.[28]
Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz and Harvard professor Linda Bilmes put the cost of the Iraq War at over $3 trillion, and incalculably more if you take into account the opportunity costs of the resources spent on this unproductive war. For example, higher oil prices due to the war have had a devastating impact on America's economy, and so have the surging federal debt and the servicing of that debt. Without the war, the 2008 financial crisis almost certainly would not have been as severe, and the Afghanistan war most likely would have been shorter, cheaper, and more effective.[29]
The Israel lobby and partisans are currently gunning for a war with Iran with the same zeal they showed in the run-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq.[30] By all estimates, the costs of a war with Iran will be much higher than the Iraq war. In addition to the loss of life, analysts predict, for example, that if Iran's oil production were taken out of the world market, gas prices would rise 25-70 percent.
If the Straits of Hormuz (straits adjacent to Iran through which 20% of the world's oil production passes on a daily basis) were attacked or blockaded, the cost of oil would skyrocket to a level never seen before, and the economic recession or depression that followed would be nothing short of "apocalyptic," according to Matthew Yglesias writing for Slate .[31]
Any particular reason why the approx. $500 million to Abbas & Company isn't listed?
Looks good to me. Israel is America's only true friend in the Middle East.
Some friend. They let us sacrifice our young men and women to fight their battles, isn't that what friends do? Oh, and we give them monetary aid too........
Israel is Americas and the worlds true enemy. All the rest are manufactured enemies created for false flag and similar purposes to get America fighting in the ME.
eh... 'Frenemy' seems more fitting:
http://www.opednews.com/populum/pagem.php?f=Israel--America-s-Bigges-by-...
USA: Israel's Bitch
Israel has how many nukes again? What sort of an economy does Israel have anyways? Don't read much on Zerohedge about that particular nation. How did they pay for all those nukes? Do they have a central bank that along with banksters and corrupt pols that is robbing their people blind? Do they print fiat sheckels there based on nothing too?
Yes, they have a central bank. The Israelis are as much debt-slaves as we are.
Most of our masters are not Jewish, and none at all see Mosaic law as anything but slave-morality. They hate the Jews. Anti-semitism is one of the oldest disinformation campaigns they still have going.
They particularly dislike Jews who take Israel's right to exist seriously. Palestine was only ever intended as a dumping ground for what remained of Europe's "Jewish problem." Nobody expected Israel to become a real country that could fight defensive wars and win them.
Pretty much nobody in charge of respectable countries likes Israel or Bibi much, any more than they did Rhodesia or Ian Smith (another man better than any of them). Stephen Harper was an exception, and you can see where it got him in the election.
<-- America
Many unemployed ppl in developing countries start NGOs and get money from Satan America.
Later these NGOs help topple the government in order to help USA cabal cos. make money there.
Also Satan America gives aid to rebels & terrorists , thats how the evil American aid ends up.
I'm changing my name to Jordan for a billion bucks.
(a billion for what pray tell?)
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This SHIT is unconstitutional there is no authority in the Constitution to use tax money (if FRNs are really money...NOT) for this purpose. Assholes are traitors.
Egypt, Jordan, and Pakistan are getting too much, in my opinion. Why do I have to pay taxes to support them when they can pick up their guns and fight for their freedom?
Wealth redistribution from Joe Taxpayer to weapons manufacturers, or "jobs" - a massive misallocation of resources, yes, but hey - "jobs."
And by the way, Israel gets far, far more than 3 or 4 billion.
Consider how fucked in the ass the US was by the trade agreement negotiated with Israel by.... Well, #2 at the Fed.
http://irmep.org/fischer_aipac.htm
I'm confident Mr. Fischer acted with all due propriety.
I was born in 1967. Life was easy and we didn't have non-stop media creating news fears. The TV went off line at midnight.
We can restore this country. I miss the 1990's when you were hugged and blessed for being a American on foreign soil.
I wish we could turn time in reverse. Dispite my anger of Jakarta prayer going off at 5:30 am. Beautiful people. I just wish we could return to those days.
'66 here...90's, nah! 80's FTW.
yeah the US gives it to the arms manufacturers to make more despots happy and create further global lines of refugees fleeing their countries , while the Uk just gives it away to anyone with a lame cause.
How Much ends up in the Clinton Foundation is the question
How much flows through the State Department?
'Foreign Aid' def. The involuntary transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.
Only $35 billion? Our government pisses that away in a day. Seems the world is easily bought.
just money being printed, changing hands again and again to give the illusion of an economy. If you print a billion, pass i through 10 bankers' hands, you've stimulated the economy by 10 billion. Nothing was really made, no goods and services provided, and the actual value of those who work for a living was actually deflated. The Fed is a flim flam man, an organ grinders' monkey taking nickles while his partner steals your wallet.
Actually, of the amount that Israel recieves, virtually all of it must be spent in America buying military equipment that the US Government approves. Virtually none of it comes to Israel as a grant or gift.
So yes, it subsidizes the military contractors and pretty exclusively helps create US jobs--it just gets labled as aid since the US doesnt actually pull the triger on the weapons.
Some of the Egyptian and Jordanian aid is like this too, but nothing like the near totality being required to be spent in the US that Israel has
As an aside, Israel actually is a good return on investment if you look at the income generated by US companies who acquried Israeli technologies and are selling them and paying US taxes on the proceeds. (Again if you consider give me money and spend it in my country as an "investment or as real "aid"")
Posted from Tel Aviv.
We'd rather not give you a penny.
And how many billions of dollars does the US MIC buy from Israel? In sweetheart contracts? And the military aide and equipment transfers the US gives to Israeli Jews is not even included. Just how much money does it cost to maintain the thousand or so number US troops stationed in the Sinai and on top of Dimona?
Don't get us started ISRAELI HASBARA TROLL. The dual citizen traitors in our governemnt planned 911; the Chesed Golem incident proves it:
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'April 4, 2007 – His name is Andras Szekely. He was born in Budapest, Hungary – the son of Holocaust survivors. At age 18, Andras fled Hungary seeking work, financial opportunity, and a better life. He landed in Italy where he sought political asylum. From Italy he immigrated to Sweden where he says he was welcomed with “open arms”. Young, and with a strong curiosity for exploration, Szekely set out to travel across Europe. Soon he found himself yearning for Israel.
He immigrated to Israel, served in the military, and fought in the Yom Kippur War (1973). After the war, he became disenchanted with the state of Israel because in his words, “I realized that the state of Israel was not a Jewish state, but rather a bunch of criminals from top to bottom.” He left Zionism behind and headed back to Europe. Eventually he found himself in the United States of America. According to Szekely, “Thanks to President Ronald Reagan, I was able to become an American citizen. I cannot put into words what a blessing it is…not necessarily financially, but spiritually and emotionally.”
Andras Szekely is the Muckraker Report source for the articles, Prior knowledge of 9/11 attacks overheard in Hebrew and Chasing down Gomel Chesed Cemetery. The summary of these two articles is as follows:
In October 2000, approximately 11 months prior to September 11, 2001, Andras Szekely was collecting English Ivy cuttings at the Gomel Chesed Cemetery located at Mccellan and 245 Mount Olive Avenue, which is near the city lines of Elizabeth and Newark, New Jersey. While in the cemetery, Szekely overheard three men, speaking in Hebrew, say:
“The Americans will learn what it is to live with terrorists after the planes hit the twins in September.”
Szekely, well in advance of 9/11, contacted the FBI asking for protection in exchange for his information. Having lived around the world in many different countries, Szekely had a healthy fear of being targeted by those he overheard in the cemetery. Unlike too many Americans, he understands that people suddenly disappear and family members are at risk when you cross the wrong people. So just to be clear – asking for protection in exchange for the information he had was prompted by his lifetime of cultural / governmental experiences. It was a prudent request in my opinion.
The FBI refused to guarantee protection for this individual. Even though Szekely told the FBI this much – that he had information involving a planned attack in NYC involving airplanes – the FBI refused to guarantee his protection. The former IDF member persisted, and according to his account, two FBI agents finally paid him a visit on June 26, 2001. They left their business cards with him.
The Muckraker Report contacted the FBI Newark Division on Wednesday, November 22, 2006 to confirm whether Agent Gritz and Agent Stengel met with Andras Szekely on or about June 26, 2001. I was directed to the FBI Newark Division Legal Unit where I spoke with a woman who identified herself as Amy. She suggested that I put my request in writing and fax it to her, which I did that same day.
On Friday, November 24, 2006 I received a phone call from Amy confirming receipt of my written request. She informed me that she would be out of the office the following week, and that somebody else from the Newark Division Legal Unit would handle my request.
On Tuesday, November 28, 2006 I received a phone call from Kathy at the FBI National Press Office. She informed me that the Legal Unit decided that I needed to file a Freedom of Information Act request.
On Wednesday, November 29, 2006 I contacted Agent Robin (Gritz) Laird. Once I had Agent Gritz on the phone, I introduced myself and immediately explained that I was attempting to confirm a meeting that herself and Agent Stengel allegedly had with Szekely on June 26, 2001. Agent Gritz was already aware of my inquiries. She indicated that she understood that the Press Office was handling my request. I told her that I decided to call her directly and emphasized that I only wish to confirm the meeting. Gritz said, “I’m not allowed to discuss this with you. I would get in trouble.”
I also filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the FBI. In my request dated December 7, 2006, I asked for the following information. What follows is the body of my FOIA request.
I am requesting the following public records and information pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act:
BACKGROUND: On or about June 26, 2001, Andras Szekely (New Jersey) was allegedly visited by two FBI Special Agents from the FBI Newark Division: Agent Robin (Gritz) Laird and Agent Stengel. Szekely has provided me with copies of these agents’ business cards that they allegedly left with Szekely after their visit. Szekely alleges that he had obtained information in October 2000 related to a terrorist attack in NYC in which airplanes would be used. Szekely alleges that he asked the FBI for protection and legal assistance, prior to being visited by Gritz and Stengel, in exchange for his detailed information. Szekely has provided me with copies of two letters he had received from the FBI’s Arthur Radford Baker, Unit Chief, Office of Public and Congressional Affairs, dated March 28, 2001 and June 20, 2001. These letters basically indicate that the FBI would offer no protection to Szekely regardless of the information he had to offer.
INFORMATION REQUESTED:
1. Please provide any documents, reports, time sheets, schedulers / daily planners, telephone records, etc. that reflect that Agent Stengel and Agent Robin Gritz met with Andras Szekely on or about June 26, 2001.
2. Please provide documents and reports that the Agents might have filed after their meeting with Szekely to include the content of the meeting.
3. Please provide all files and documents related to Andras Szekely.
In response to this FOIA request, the FBI sent a letter dated December 27, 2006, which indicated that because I had requested documents on an individual, I needed to provide the FBI with either proof of death or a privacy waiver from the subject(s) of my request. Included with this letter from the FBI was a Privacy Waiver and Certification of Identity form.
I contacted Andras Szekely and asked him if he would be willing to sign the waiver. He said he would. I mailed him the form, a copy of my original FOIA, and the response letter from the FBI. He signed the waiver form and returned it to me. I mailed the waiver form to the FBI on January 1, 2007.
On February 7, 2007 I received a pathetic response to my FOIA from the FBI. Bear in mind what I requested in my FOIA.
* Documents, reports, time sheets, schedulers / daily planners, telephone records, etc. that reflect that Agent Stengel and Agent Robin Gritz met with Andras Szekely on or about June 26, 2001
* Documents and reports that the Agents might have filed after their meeting with Szekely to include the content of the meeting
* All files and documents related to Andras Szekely
The FBI responded:
This is in response to your Freedom of Information-Privacy Acts (FOIPA) request noted above.
To promptly respond to requests, we concentrate on identifying main files in the central records system at FBI Headquarters. No records responsive to your FOIPA request were located by a search of the automated and manual indices.
The Muckraker Report didn’t ask the FBI how it searches for files or where. In fact, I don’t give a damn that to promptly respond to requests, the FBI claims to concentrate on identifying main files in the central records system at FBI Headquarters. What is so infuriating about this lame response is the fact that the FBI admits to looking for the documents I requested – in places they could not be found! Why would the reports, time sheets, schedulers / daily planners, telephone records, etc. that reflect that Agent Stengel and Agent Robin Gritz met with Andras Szekely on or about June 26, 2001 be in the main files of the central records system? These types of documents would not be in the main files because the FBI refused to provide Szekely protection – therefore it missed or purposely missed an opportunity to gain actionable intelligence for the main files. No, the records I asked for would be found in other locations. Clearly, when Gritz and Stengel met with Szekely, their whereabouts were documented – just not in the main file. The FBI knows this – its just hiding relevant and important information from the American people to protect its masters and the ruling elite.
Furthermore, and smelling more like a cover-up, FBI Unit Chief of the Office of Public and Congressional Affairs, Arthur Radford Baker mailed letters to Szekely on March 28, 2001 and June 20, 2001 – letters in which the FBI now claims it can locate no record of ever writing. I did request all files and documents related to Andras Szekely. I expected the FBI would have at least produced its copy of the letters.
As with every worthless FOIA response I receive from the U.S. government, there is a provision for an appeal.
What follows is the content of my appeal dated February 18, 2007.
February 18, 2007
Dear Mr. David M. Hardy,
Please accept this administrative appeal of Request No.: 1069088-000.
In your response to my FOIA request you indicated that when your office responds to FOIA requests it “concentrates on identifying main files in the central records system at FBI Headquarters”. Accordingly, you indicated, “no records responsive to my FOIPA request were located.
The reason no records responsive to my request were found is because you looked where the records are not – thus ignoring my request. I have requested documents that would most likely be found in administrative / personnel files, or in the files / computers / cellular phone records / day planners / schedulers of two FBI agents – Agent Andrew H. Stengel and Agent Robyn L. Gritz.
I have enclosed the original FOIA, the privacy waiver signed by Andras Szekely, letters received by Szekely from the FBI, and the business cards of the two FBI agents, Stengel and Gritz, which Szekely says the FBI left with him after they met with him on or about June 26, 2001.
To suggest that the FBI has no record of any meeting with Andras Szekely given the correspondence and the business cards – cards that have corrected phone numbers on them and should be easily confirmed as Stengel’s and Gritz’s handwriting – is unreasonable and unlikely.
It is my belief that agent’s Stengel and Gritz did meet with Szekely on or about June 26, 2001 and in that meeting he informed the agents that he had information regarding a then “upcoming” terrorist attack in September 2001 involving airplanes and targets in New York City. I can understand how at that point the agent’s might not have taken Szekely seriously – however knowing what I now know about what information Szekely claimed to have at that time, it is in the public’s interest to understand this meeting and the content thereof.
Please accept this appeal and search for the documentation I have originally request in the locations in which it could be found.
On March 16, 2007 I received a response to my appeal from Priscilla Jones, Supervisory Administrative Specialist for the Office of Information and Privacy. Jones wrote:
Dear Mr. Haas:
This is to advise you that your administrative appeal from the action of the Federal Bureau of Investigation was received by this Office on March 2, 2007.
The Office of Information and Privacy, which has the responsibility of adjudicating such appeals, has a substantial backlog of pending appeals received prior to yours. In an attempt to afford each appellant equal and impartial treatment, we have adopted a general practice of assigning appeals in the approximate order of receipt. Your appeal has been assigned number 07-0824. Please mention this number in any future correspondence with this Office regarding this matter.
We will notify you of the decision on your appeal as soon as we can. We regret the necessity of this delay and appreciate your continued patience.
Let me tell you what Andras Szekely regrets. He regrets everyday that despite his best efforts, the FBI, for reasons that remain obscure, refused to listen to him. He regrets that the inconvenient information about 9/11 remains covered-up or dismissed as conspiratorial if it sees the light of day. He lives with the uncertainty of whether he could have done more to save nearly 3000 lives. I assure him every time we speak that he did his best – that he could not have done anything more because the U.S. government enabled, exploited, or created 9/11 – that prior knowledge within the U.S. government is as much of a fact as the towers no longer standing.
I asked Szekely why he is willing to go public now, beyond the fact that he wants the American people to know his story and of his efforts to warn the U.S. government about the attacks. He said, “I have nothing left to lose.”
None of us do Andras. None of us do.
looks like the 911blogger site was attacked in the last week after I posted this link to the Chesed Golem incident in a message on the zerohedge article
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-10-20/trump-bush-had-%E2%80%9Cadvanced-notice%E2%80%9D-911?page=2
even though it had been accessible on 911blogger.com for many years!!!!!!!!.
"The US Spends $35 Billion In Global Economic Aid (But Where Does All This Money Really Go?)"
Israel?
Over 10% of the money goes to Israel. It gets there in the form of american made weapons. Lets all ignore the other 90% and whine about how the population/dolar ratio is the biggest issue. Lets all act as if a few billions and financial ratios, in the context of economies of trillions, are what are making you so angry. Lets ignore that it is all funny fiat money or came as a loan from China and Saudi Arabia and until it gets paid, and it will never be, nobody was taxed for it. You are burdened by a debt you wont pay, and thus isnt a real burden.
And lets act as if the two palestinians that got shot last week (every week a couple of palestinians get shot) are more worthy of phariseic indignation than the 100 vibrants that got killed in Chicago in the same period. Because life is sacred, right.
Perhaps if Egypt were to get 4 billions a year, the aid to Israel would be no big deal and the world would find harmony. Surely that is the problem.
People keep pointing fingers at strawmen.
Benji; Israeli dual citizens planned and carried out 911. The Chesed Golem incident proves it. Why won't the FBI release their interview of Andras Szekely?
Separate topics but like with everything Jew related, people point at strawmen.
When it comes to judaics, few say what they mean.
"Oh they got more guns than Jordan" "Oh they shot a palestinian last week"
Hardly the central issue.
Planned Obsolescence military games are perpetual and have a price of front end "aid" in the form of donation of military's obsolete junk (perceived as precious assets by the locals) to make countries permanently hooked on the financial line of compound interest payments on a larger front; once the US has a foothold in the region. American aid does have collateral obligations.
You can obviously be generous on Principal if you win on the more powerful Principle of ideological subservience being followed by the surrogate nation, now sunk to foggy bottom as totally junkied like a dope addict on "aid's" sugar coated pill offered to the power elites.
Just look at Pak/afghan/Iraq and current show in Erdogan's Turkey as good examples of American "aid".
Never fails.
All you need to know is, the country with the smallest population gets the biggest slice of Pie.
And those with the Largest population get the smallest peice of pie.
But where does it all come from, I have to work for every dollar I make. The US can just cut a cheque with no money in the piggy to cover it. So they cut themselves another cheque to pay for that cheque.
How much interest does Israel pay on her national debt---the debt she wouldn't have if our masters would only cough up the USD500B they still owe the Jews? Because I'm guessing USD3.1B a year doesn't cover it.
I'm all for ending military aid to Israel, who can take of herself, once she and her children are finally paid what they're owed.
Most of the rest of the countries on the list we don't owe a goddamn thing. The aid to them makes as much sense as feeding rats in most cases.
OK, I'll bite ..... This 500 billion, what is this money 'owed' for.
Jooland, where else?