We just had a debacle about the debt limit just a few mere weeks ago and the reports are that it will be even further in debt soon…..and with all this concern over debt and spending our president has almost demanded more cash for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan.
White House rolled out its proposed $105 billion bill to arm Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan. The legislation also includes funding for the border and humanitarian assistance. US officials say over $50 billion will go to American weapons manufacturers.
The Biden administration is proposing a massive aid package as it has struggled to get Congress to appropriate more funds for the proxy war in Ukraine. The largest portion of money is for Ukraine at $61.4 billion. The White House wants enough money for Ukraine to fund Kiev through the 2024 election.
National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan described the aid as critical to American national security and demanded Congress pass the bill. “This budget request is critical to advancing America’s national security and ensuring the safety of the American people,” Sullivan said. “The world is closely watching what Congress does next.”
Biden announced the legislation in a speech on Thursday night, “American leadership is what holds the world together. American alliances are what keep us in America safe. American values are what make us a partner nation you want to work with.” He continued,”to put all that at risk – we walk away from Ukraine, we turn our backs on Israel – it’s just not worth it. That’s why tomorrow I’m going to send to Congress an urgent budget request to fund America’s national security needs – needs to support our critical partners, including Israel and Ukraine.”
Director of the Office of Management and Budget, Shalanda Young, explained that nearly half of the money will go to American arms makers. “This supplemental request invests over $50 billion in the American defense industrial base, ensuring our military continues to be the most ready, capable, and best-equipped fighting force the world has ever seen,” she said.
Young claimed that the spending would bolster the American economy and create jobs. However, a study indicated that military spending costs more jobs than it creates.
(antiwar.com)
I have said this many times….why is others problems mean that the US must throw money at them?
I seldom see this kind of urgency when it comes to our social programs.
Why is that? (Don’t answer that was rhetorical question)
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You have a valid point. We are dumping tens of billions of dollars into other countries and have been for years when that same amount of money would have gone a long way to fix a lot of problems here, like hungry children, people dying from curable diseases because of a lack of health care, crumbling roads and bridges. The list goes on and on.
That has been my contention since I started blogging in 2006 to let people know the waste and the necessary for there to be some form of change. chuq
Howdy Chuq!
There is no problem that we cannot solve, ergo an unsolved problem continues to exist because we want it to exist. What problems in the US are we not addressing? I can’t think of one that isn’t being addressed in some form or fashion. What ones are not being solved? That’s a very different question.
There are factions in the US that have a vested interest in continuing problems.
Foreign policy is not domestic policy. We support other countries so that those problems don’t come to our shores. We have to maintain Ukraine, or we’ll be heading down the road of appeasement and looking at another expansionist power trying to gobble up Europe. We know how that story ends.
We have to support Taiwan (and the Philippines), or China will continue appropriating territory for its economic expansion. They will claim the moon for their own, for example.
We have to support Israel and the alliances it is developing in the ME, i.e. with Saudi Arabia, or Iran and Russia will exert hegemony over the region, which will only be a more problems for the US and Europe.
It doesn’t matter who created the problems. The lines are drawn. Our foes are our foes. We either contest them abroad or we’ll be contesting them at home.
You want to solve domestic problems, we have to elect a government that doesn’t profit from continuing them.
Huzzah!
Jack
It always comes down to the money….my basic point is that bi-partisanship only goes as far as war….after that there is silly debate and worthless posturing….but not when the arms industry needs a boost. chuq
That is true. It is always down to money, so good thing that money doesn’t corrupt, or so John Roberts assures us. Too often the job of the politician boils down to convincing their electorate to support the policy that best serves their biggest donors even if it hurts their constituents. I think that is a testable hypothesis, and I think we both have a pretty good idea how it will turn out.
Huzzah!
Jack
Jack I have been writing against this brand of politics for decades and many agree but few want to do anything about the problem. chuq
It’s a good thing that money has nothing to do with corruption, that’s all I can say.
Jack
LOL….not much more to say si there? chuq
Other than, that’s our Supreme Court.
$50 billion for the arms industry answers all our questions in one swoop.
Best wishes, Pete.
Indeed it does. chuq